telebleu
Joined: Jun 09, 2006
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Hi,
I recently bought a K750i. Today I received an SMS from a business contact, and the SMS content seemed somewhat strange coming from him. This was until I discovered that the one I communicated with was not my business contact, but one of my closest friends! Strange.
These two happen to have almost the same number; +474xxxxxxx and +479xxxxxxx, where 'xxxxxxx' is identical, and +47 is the country code in which they reside. Thus, in this country (Norway) they have nearly identical numbers, only differing by the first digit. My friend was stored without the country code in my contacts list, though. This is what caused this peculiar bug.
Sony Ericssons developers have not taken into account the fact that not all countries have 3-digit country code. If the software finds a '+' as the first character, then it removes this and the following 3 digits, and then comparing this against the contacts stored. If the contacts is stored without a country prefix, that is.
Is this a known issue?
This seems not like a robust design. I am aware of that this may be solved by putting the correct country code in front of every contact, but this was not an issue with my old Nokia phones.
Regards.
BTW: My firmware is R1BC002. |
wapt
Joined: Jan 10, 2003
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It's a known issue, design from the very begining. Only the last seven digits of phone number are identified. You can check with the old Ericsson phones. I don't think Sony Ericsson have done any changes on it. It happened just because you are the lucky one with the two phone number stored.
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Posted: 2006-06-09 10:11
