Just a quick note. Nokia have finished their Meego upgrades and the paid, ad free version of Word Tiles is now available for Meego as well as a more recent update. The platform is still behind Symbian unfortunately as we could not submit new updates but rest assured we will continue to support Meego and the latest version will be submitted shortly.

On a side note there is a small bug fix release for scoring issues now in QA for Symbian that should hopefully be available on the store within the next few business days.

Multiple language support is also on its way but as this is a big change and the team have been traveling it’s taking longer than expected. Keep checking back for updates.

Apart from that features and bugs:

• User search now has last online indicator
• Privacy policy added
• You can now actually go to an ad if you want to instead of our buy link (on free version only)
• Data and battery saving feature added. Data consumption should now only be 100k or so per hour the app is open instead of several megabytes

Both the paid and free version are up to date.

Note: Meego users will have to wait a little while for this update as Nokia are still upgrading their Meego infrastructure. No ETA at this point

Well it seems quite a few of you do and the most asked for feature is now for languages other than English. We are now hard at work bringing you this feature. It’s a big change so it may still be a few weeks off and we will definitely not be able to support every language straight away.

So far the most requested languages have been (in no particular order):

• Spanish
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian

Interestingly enough there have been few requests for French, German, Italian, Portuguese or any other languages so if you’re out there let us know.

I can’t confirm which languages will be supported in the initial multi-language release but I can say it will likely be influenced by purchases of the ad free version of Word Tiles as this is the only metric we have when it comes to Word Tiles popularity.

Keep checking back on the blog, like us on Facebook and checking the store for more updates.

Have a great week.

If you’re on a s60v5 phone you’ll have to uninstall and reinstall since those phones don’t have updates notifications but the good news is that you can now log back into your account if you do this.

The latest version has some improvements to the way games are started meaning you’ll only be matched with other people who ask to start a random game. However people using older versions will still be matched up with anyone. What this means is that the sooner people upgrade the less games they’ll be dropped into unannounced. Good for everyone we think.

There are also some more options around notifications for those who don’t want them or don’t want an audio notification.

In other news:

• Soon you’ll be able to purchase a copy of Word Tiles if you’d like to support us
• A minor bug release is coming soon which also features some power and data saving features. Currently playing Word Tiles for an hour could take up more than a megabyte of data. This should now be reduced to just a couple of hundred kilobytes. Of course quitting the game and waiting for notifications uses much less data and power currently
• As mentioned previously our agenda was to provide a stable game before embarking on multiple language support. We can proudly say that the stability milestone has been met and we are working on adding multi language support. No promises on which ones will come first as it depends on dictionary availability but please post any good sources of word lists for your language and we’ll see if they are usable

Thanks and keep playing

Some of you may have noticed there were some performance issues over the last few days. The game list may have taken a while to load or your move may not have been received.

Some people even had trouble registering and we did get a few negative reviews in the store about this.

Well the good news is we have identified the problem and fixed it. Everything should be back to its normal, snappy self.

Thanks for your patience.

Download it now, if only to get your triple word score where your opponents on the older version aren’t!

http://store.ovi.com/content/257776

You may have noticed that notifications are coming through a lot quicker now. We’ve made some improvements and you should now receive a notification within a few seconds of your opponent making their move. For those who don’t like the notifications the next version will allow you to disable the sounds or turn them off completely.

This version fixes problems that caused the Symbian^3 version to be removed from the store.

Available for S60v5, Symbian^3 and now on the N9.

New features, bug fixes and performance improvements.

The next version will bring some major changes and features so might take a bit longer to hit the store, the version after that will add multi-language support but keep playing in the meantime. The more people playing the faster we work.

Version 1.0.2 is available now on the store for S60v5 phones such as the 5800, N97, C6 etc. However, there was a problem due to a bug on Symbian^3 phones which means those with an N8, E7, 701, X7 etc will not be able to download this update. Unfortunately it also means the app has been removed completely from the store for those phones.

We are working with Nokia to get around this problem and will have more news shortly.

• Phone book – invite contacts to play
• Bug fixes
• Zoom in and out of the board
• User manual
• Ability to view the board of finished games

There are a  lot more features coming in future releases but we wanted to make sure the major bugs were ironed out so people can enjoy it as it is now.

Keep checking for updates in the store. We’ll also post here when it’s live.