Google Phone Turns Text Conversations Into OS Commands
The Google phone, also known as the G1 mobile, has shown a new bug during text conversation.
The bug causes the phone to restart when owners type in the word "reboot" soon after starting up the device. Once the phone is started up and a user types in a text conversation, the phone will interpret any text entered as a command.
"I was in the middle of a text conversation with my girl when she asked why I hadn’t responded," said the user called jdhorvat in the description of his discovery that was posted to Google’s problem reporting website.
"I had just rebooted my phone and the first thing I typed was a response to her text which simply stated "Reboot" – which, to my surprise, rebooted my phone."
The phone is sold by T-Mobile in the UK under the name "G1". The software that the phone uses is the Google-developed Android operating system.
Google has fixed the problem in an update that will be available in the UK by November 12.
"We’ve been notified of this issue and have developed a fix," said a Google spokesperson in a statement. "We’re currently working with our partners to push the fix out."
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