Microsoft Solitaire Collection for Android
Microsoft Solitaire Collection, previously a Windows exclusive app, has been released for Android and iOS devices by Microsoft recently.
Microsoft Solitaire Collection was released first for Windows 8 and later on for Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system as well.
It replaced the classic Solitaire desktop game that shipped with most copies of Windows released prior to Windows 8.
The Microsoft Solitaire Collection can be downloaded for free for Windows 8, and ships with windows 10. It is free but ad-driven, and there is a premium subscription version of the game that does away with the ads.
Microsoft Solitaire Collection for Android
Microsoft released Microsoft Solitaire Collection for Android and iOS recently. It is a straight port of the Windows 10 version of the Solitaire games collection,
Like the original, it is provided as a free ad-driven version, and a premium version that users can subscribe to if you want to get rid of the ads and some extra premium perks on top of that.
The start page of the app lists the supported Solitaire game types (Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid and TriPeaks), as well as daily challenges, links to statistics, news, and sign in options.
The games have no requirement to sign in to a Microsoft Account or sign up for one to start playing. If you do, you will benefit from synchronization however.
This means that you can start playing on your desktop, continue playing on your mobile device, and later on the desktop again without losing any progress.
The games play just like their desktop version for the most part. There is one difference though which may irritate at first. Whenever you tap on a card, it is moved automatically to the next fitting option. So, if you have a red four and two black fives on the board, that red four is moved automatically to the first black five.
You may adjust that manually however using drag and drop. You can disable the feature with a tap on Menu > Game Options > Single Tap to Move.
There you may also disable hints and alerts, end game and background animation, and the tutorial.
The game works well on tablets and smartphones alike, but you may find the cards a bit too tiny on small screen Android devices.
Closing Words
Microsoft Solitaire Collection is a true port of the desktop Solitaire game. What may appeal the most to users is the fact that you can sync your progress across devices to continue play on any device the game supports.
Now You: Do you play Solitaire on your devices?
Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?