O2 Germany's TG01 handset, now with virus!
by Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Jul 15th 2009 at 10:17AM
It's bad enough picking up a virus because you've made an uncharacteristic (to you at least) illegal software acquisition, but bringing one home when you're just minding your own business, trying to enjoy your legitimate and hard-earned purchase, is totally uncool. Case in point: according to Inside-Handy.de, a few unlucky customers of O2 in Germany have purchased the TG01 handset only to discover a virus present on the device. While Toshiba tries to determine the impact and the cause of the infection, O2 has halted sales of the smartphone, though there's no word on when sales will resume nor if this infection has spread to other European nations.
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Filed under: Handsets, O2, Windows Mobile, Toshiba
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jimmy @ Jul 15th 2009 10:54AM
Why people continue to use this garbage OS these days? Why?
Chris @ Jul 15th 2009 10:56AM
WTF? Corporate espionage to have gotten the virus in prior to release? Or is this like the cover of Disney's little mermaid with the porn image inserted by an unhappy employee...
Borge @ Jul 15th 2009 11:19AM
O2 halted sales? At least they aren't recalling. Are they?
TG01 Customer @ Jul 15th 2009 12:02PM
They recall it! But it's not a Windows Mobile virus, according to theunwired.net: http://www.theunwired.net/?item=hold-up-o2-germany-stops-sale-of-toshiba-tg01-due-to-a-virus-infection
Borge @ Jul 15th 2009 12:25PM
Then what different between WinMo virus vs Win virus? And how it could affect WinMo such that they had to recall? More questions than answer?