A brief text message can immobilise two models of Siemens mobile
phone, the result of what appears to be a software bug. CNET
News.com quotes a spokesman for the company who admitted that the
company is aware of the problem.
It appears that the problem occurs upon opening any text message
that consists of a single word from the phone's language menu
preceded by a percentage sign or asterisk (reports differ on the
character) and surrounded by quotation marks, such as
"%English".
The affected models are the Siemens 35 series and the 45 series.
The former is completely disabled when the bug is triggered; the
latter just results in a two minute read delay.
