I’ve noticed some weird issues regarding certain kinds of SMS messages not being delivered properly to my iPhone. Specifically, voicemail alert alerts sent by SMS never land in my inbox at all. After doing a little digging, it seems that the iPhone’s baseband has trouble interpreting incoming SMS messages coming from short codes.

Since short codes are used quite a bit in Europe for promotions, banking and the like I should think that the firmware shipping on European iPhone’s will have fixed this. In the meantime we’ll have to keep digging to try to find a workaround.