Import Root CA in the Nokia E61

Last week, I recieved my new Nokia E61i. As soon as I tried to connect to my own IMAP server (over SSL/TLS) is started nagging about the (selfsigned) SSL certificate.

The E61 has a certificate store, so I should be able to add other Root CA's to this store, but this is where the trouble began.

The manual has a chapter on certificates, but it lacks a working explanation on "how to import third party root CA's". On my old iPaq, it was simply upload a DER encoded certificate, click on it, and it would install. Well this doesn't work on the E61 (and many other Symbian-based) phones. Just 'google', and you'll find lot's of people with similar problems...

The working solution I found uses a website from which you download the certificate with the phone, but there is a catch; you need to add a MIME-type to the website containing the certificate (hence the admin rights).

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Reality Donor Show Was a HOAX

A couple of weeks ago, a non-commercial TV station BNN announced that they would air a live kidney donor show. The idea was that a terminal ill patient got to decide which kidney patient could get her kidney. Lot's, and lot's of people (from all over the world) thought that this was an outrage. Yesterday the show aired (even though lot's of government officials were against it). At the end of the show, it seemed that it was just a hoax. The terminally ill patient was an actrice, but the needy kidney patients were real. Reason for airing this show was to make people see that organ donation is needed (a lot). It seems that Holland has to lowest rate of organ donors in Europe. Well, they surely succeeded in raising attention to the subject. The news travelled all over the world. Personally, I've been a registered donor since 1998. They may harvest my body, when I'm dead of course, for the good of mankind. After which they may burn what's left behind. My opinion on organ donation is that someone who is a donor should have a much higher priority for receiving a donor organ. Live isn't just about taking/consuming. It's also about giving. If you're not registered as a donor... click here, and make sure you become one as soon as possible.

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Free Hotspot Access

You're in luck, if you have a XS4ALL Internet account. Normally, you have an hour a week free Hotspot access, and this summer you are even more lucky. XS4ALL provides over 900 free Hotspots throughout the land this summer (June, Juli, and August).

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Nokia E61i

For the last two years I've been using a HP iPaq HX2790 for my agenda, and contacts. At the time I was quite pleased, until I started adding functionality to the device. So the time was right to start looking for something else. Something else meant a device without any Windows Mobile Crap. Furthermore, it should combine a phone and an organizer, AND a small QWERTY keyboard. These criteria didn't leave that many options, so I went for the Nokia E61i. A nice all-in-one device with;

• Wireless (802.11b/g)
• Bluetooth
• InfraRed
• Multiple e-mail accounts via POP3 / IMAP (as well over SSL/TLS)
• Nokia PC-Soute for Synching the device with Outlook etc.
• And lot's more

So I'll be trying to figure this thing out the next couple of weeks. I just hope that this device is a little more user friendly than the Windows Mobile devices.

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