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NOTE: iPhones Firmware update 2.1, seems to have gotten rid of the problem. If now only Apple would fix the damn calendar bug

Have you recently sent an email from your beloved iPhone and have it delivered - empty? Then when you look at the sent on your phone you get the lovely: “This message has no content”.

For me - it was simple - the problem was my signature. Which constituted of a simple ‘•’. An elevated full-stop, also known as bullet-point.

There appears to be a bug in the iPhone that is as follows:

• If you send an email with a • as the LAST character, your sending bar at the bottom of Mail.app will continually say ‘Sending’, and the email will not even show up in your sent
• If you send an email with words, then • and then some more words - not a problem - it will be delivered

If I didn’t know better, I’d say that upon Unicode conversion upon sending, the email becomes corrupt through a rogue parser.

Quite an oversight on Apple’s behalf, and has only appeared since the 2.0.2 update.

Moral of the story - don’t have a bullet point as the last character in your emails, let alone your signature.

Have you noticed any strangeness in your iPhones behaviour?

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It is no secret that Google wants to be ‘the’ company of the millennium and beyond, especially with it [Google] courting medicine. Without a doubt that you will within 10 years see Google as the dominant force in ALL advertising, be it your fridge, washing machine, television and the soon to be supposedly unveiled GPhone.

Although what does this mean for the likes of Apple? Who just recently unveiled the much sought after iPhone. Will the company that lives and breathes innovation and the ‘betterment’ of your personal computer experience come under fire from those at Googleplex?

Google’s strategy is great, and I applaud its flawless execution. They design and develop a great search engine, and with the profits buy their way into each and every foreseeable industry - thus not limiting themselves to the cash-cow that is AdWords. With each acquisition they will ‘Googlify’/tweak it to the users. Where to from here?

The Romsturdamus Predictions:

• Products
  • GPhone
  • GNav [incar navigation]
  • GOOS [Google Online OS - online/web]

• At first it will be the iPhone, and the trampling of the market-share of Apple
• It is always about the actual hardware design as it is about software; at the moment, the TomTom ‘package’ - is simply the best, software and units.
  • Either Google will partner up with TomTom (especially now that most of the maps provided to Google in Europe are owned by TomTom’s recent acquisition of TeleAtlas), or buy them out. Simply doesn’t make sense to have TomTom produce units with Google’s GNav software on it.
• Last but not least, GOS - Google Online Operating System. Sooner or later this too will happen, and what will happen to the incumbents such as Apple and Microsoft?

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