Keep an eye out for the safety of your Nokia, there is a new bug out there that could be on its way to attacking your phone.  Actually I say a new bug but in fact it’s an old bug that has recently emerged into the limelight.  The bug was developed in the earlier days of the Symbian operating system and was used to crash some unknowing innocents phone through the magic of text message.  Just when you thought it was safe to jump back into the telecoms pool, then you would be wrong…it’s back.

The bug is labelled the “Curse of Silence” due to the bugs knock on effect on the phone.  The bug stops the phones ability to receive text messages once the bug has had its way with your handset.  The bug was stopped as the Nokia handset evolved over the years, but now the bug has resurfaced and is attacking such models that run the Nokia S60 system, such as the Nokia N95, E71 and the N76, some of the most popular phones in the world.

Just to make things worse, there is no known cure for the bug so if you’ve got it then you will have to look to totally hard reset the phone and lose everything on it, and then you will most likely get it again in time and you will have to do it all over again.

There has been a security issue with phones for a while for security developers in that there has been no security problem with handsets for quite a long time.  We have been trundling along quite blissfully with pretty much no reasons to spend any of our hard earned money on security software for our handsets…until now.  Now this bug has come back to attack Nokia, security providers finally have something to advertise again…good news for them bad news for us it seems.

However, if you have recently jumped onto one of the more recent phones such as the Nokia N85, N96 and other such phones that run the S60 Feature Pack 2 then you’re safe and sound and have nothing to worry about.

However, some people aren’t taking the risk as seriously as the security developers would like as some are claiming that the bug is more of a nuisance than a threat.  Surely the threat is the nuisance?

Nokia seems to have bigger things on their mind for 2009, however, as the touchscreen war battles on.  Nokia have been knocked off their metaphorical handset pedestal by the success of Apple’s iPhone, however Nokia plans on taking back their hold on the market with their future handsets – starting with the Nokia N97.

The Nokia N97 is a touchscreen smartphone that has a full QWERTY keyboard that slides right out from underneath.  The phone is being hailed as the “world’s most advanced mobile computer”, the kind of labels that Nokia likes to hear, but will it be enough to take on the popular iPhone?

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