Fix released: Is Android phone intermittently sending SMS messages to wrong contact?

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Addendum: On 2011-01-22 Android announced a fix is being rolled out and patches are available, click here for details.

It is hard to know what level of concern one should have regarding posts on the Internet about Android phones having a bug such that text messages are sent to the wrong and random contact.

This was reported to Google on June 28, 2010 as Issue 9392: SMS intermittently sent to wrong and seemingly random contact  and is still open. 

While a number of posts in the issue thread are just people chiming in as "noise" with no details, the initial post and other posts give details of specific problems individuals have encountered with SMS going astray.  Scroll to the bottom to see the most recent posts. 

Whether or not these problems apply to other people or are related to specific configuration problems is still not known but owners of Android smart phones might be interested in following developments on this issue.