retroremakes
January 3rd, 2010, 19:50
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2010/01/thumb160x_screenshot1bf-287x480.jpgSorry to burst your warp bubble, bucko, but that text message you received the other day from a cellphone user in the year 2016 was just some stupid bug.
According to non-official sources (MS has yet to comment), some mobile users are receiving text messages sent after 1/1/2010 dated as though they were sent from the future, specifically 1/1/2016.
The latest reports state the most widely-affected user group are those using Windows Mobile (http://gizmodo.com/tag/windowsmobile/) 6.1 and 6.5. The folks at WMExperts have posted a homemade .cab file that purportedly fixes the bug, but again, nothing official from MS or handset manufacturers just yet. [WMExperts (http://www.wmexperts.com/y2016-sms-bug) via Pocket Now (http://pocketnow.com/tech-news/y2k16-windows-mobile-sms-bug) via BGR (http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/01/03/some-handsets-suffer-y2k16-sms-bug/)]
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More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/FODnRIQg1Os/time+traveling-windows-mobile-year-2016-texts-are-a-bug-not-a-feature)
According to non-official sources (MS has yet to comment), some mobile users are receiving text messages sent after 1/1/2010 dated as though they were sent from the future, specifically 1/1/2016.
The latest reports state the most widely-affected user group are those using Windows Mobile (http://gizmodo.com/tag/windowsmobile/) 6.1 and 6.5. The folks at WMExperts have posted a homemade .cab file that purportedly fixes the bug, but again, nothing official from MS or handset manufacturers just yet. [WMExperts (http://www.wmexperts.com/y2016-sms-bug) via Pocket Now (http://pocketnow.com/tech-news/y2k16-windows-mobile-sms-bug) via BGR (http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/01/03/some-handsets-suffer-y2k16-sms-bug/)]
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More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/FODnRIQg1Os/time+traveling-windows-mobile-year-2016-texts-are-a-bug-not-a-feature)