Unfortunately, I am tiring of my iPhone; mostly due to the slow network speed. Now that the iTouch has all the cool apps as the iPhone (Goole Maps being the most useful for me) I’d like to give up the phone capabilities but still want to make phone calls through Google Maps. It would be great to have an iTouch application (or any platform in general) that could place a call through a bluetooth-connected cell phone. This would give me most of the same functionality of the iPhone without the headaches of the AT&T network.

I purchased and activated my iPhone without incident Friday (unlike a lot of others) but have not been very successful at getting some items to work the way I would prefer. One example is access to email. I’m hesitant to open the secure IMAP port (IMAPS, tcp port 993) and would never open IMAP (tcp port 143); I would prefer to connect at a port greater than 1024 but can’t seem to find any settings on my iPhone that permit this configuration. So, I obliged the iPhone and opened port 993 and could not get it to work. Looking at my application event log revealed the culprit: a bunch of errors for Source IMAP4SVC, Event ID 1051 – Unexpected error condition: call to function CEncryptCtx::CheckServerCert() resulted in error code 0×800cc801.

Turns out this is an easy fix; I didn’t have the certificate installed on my Exchange server (as I never configured IMAP or IMAPS for use). Right-clicking on the IMAP4 Virtual Server, clicking on the Certificate button on the Access tab and installing a Web Server certificate fixed the issue right away. Now I get to enjoy more functionality on the iPhone.