Downloaded the new version (1.26) and oddly it is more unstable and crashes more often than 1.25. Still, it's acceptable and the game is very good.

There are some differences, though. Accounting Troll mentioned some in his (1 year old) thread.

Snakemen are deadly, they have an accuracy of 100%, only if you manage to surprise them they will sometimes miss. Your soldiers will die in one shot (without armor). What surprised me even more was the fact that the Aliens do use "unusual" tactics, in my first terror mission a snakemen threw a grenade in the Skyranger!
Chryssalids are somewhat "tame", they die rather easily.
Sectoids, well i saw only 2 so far, they seemed to be very weak and slow, one died from flames of a incendiary round. Haven't seen any other Aliens yet.

The weapons seem to be slightly different, too, you can fire more often (one of my soldiers could kneel, fire 3xautofire from his laser and still had some time left. HE and INC rounds seem to be VERY effective, same for smoke grenades. Unlike in the original Xcom you can't see very far through smoke, the tiles three fields in front of you stay black.

The new soldiers seem to be less talented than in the original game, but maybe that was coincidence.

Interceptions are a bit different, too, Avalanche launchers do have a capacity of 2 missiles only (each), but they seem to do more damage.

The basemanagment feels different, too. Your starting base has a small radar only and you can't dismantle some installations. Tanks do feel weak.

Basically the game looks, feels and smells like Xcom but the weapons seem to be more balanced, a good possibility to test new tactics. What i especially liked was that some Xcomutil improvements for the default game found their way into Pocket uFO: e.g. Your squad equipment seems to be saved.

You can load during tactical missions, nice! And you can access the stats of your soldiers in the equipment screen! You will have no choice of the difficulty setting, though. There seems to be only one difficulty: VERY DIFFICULT! Several times i lost the whole squad in tac missions, those Snakemen are something to fear!

Apart from the crashes (mostly when loading and starting tac missions) i discovered a funny bug: In each terror mission there was one brown-haired female civilian attacking my troops! One time she even entered the Skyranger! She seemed to use a melee attack , the animation was the same as the chryssalid attack, but it did no damage. And she did not show up as hostile either. (no Alien-detected-symbol).

Maybe it is my ex-girlfriend?

The translation/text is a bit glitched, there were "Mounthly costs" and similar things. Nothing major, though.

Nice and worthy Xcom version. And as it is free there is no reason NOT to try it imo.

In Pocket UFO the Skyranger can fly ~45% around the earth, the Interceptors ~25%. This is one of the things they copied from the XcomUtil changes i guess. Unluckily both the terror missions were in the unreachable areas, grr.

Which reminds me to take my daily dose of Pocket Ufo now!