{"id":4080,"date":"2010-01-03T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/time-traveling-windows-mobile-year-2016-texts-are-a-bug-not-a-feature-bugs\/"},"modified":"2010-01-03T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T19:30:00","slug":"time-traveling-windows-mobile-year-2016-texts-are-a-bug-not-a-feature-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/time-traveling-windows-mobile-year-2016-texts-are-a-bug-not-a-feature-bugs.php","title":{"rendered":"Time-Traveling Windows Mobile Year 2016 Texts Are a Bug, Not a Feature [Bugs]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/116b5_thumb160x_screenshot1bf-287x480.jpg\" class=\"left image158\" width=\"158\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Sorry 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.<\/p><p>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.<\/p><p>The latest reports state the most widely-affected user group are those using <a title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #windowsmobile\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/windowsmobile\/\">Windows Mobile<\/a> 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. 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