Trouble is, Nokia haven’t released the update for UK handsets yet (and probably never will), a couple of us (Ewan included) have forced the US upgrade on to our handsets without any negative side effects so if you’re feeling brave you might want to give that a shot. I believe Ewan posted instructions on this blog a few weeks ago.

Just one thing. All my contact information is linked to the exchange account so no contact information has been stored in the phone’s internal address book. Therefore, if a contact who’s number is in GMM address book calls me the number just appears and not any contact name etc. Is there a simple way that you have found to sync the GMM address book with the phone’s internal one?

I’m not sure if the security hole I mentioned has been fixed yet but when I spoke with them on the phone they had a solid plan of how to plug the hole that wouldn’t take too long to implement.

Once over my initial problems I found getting accounts setup and running Good was an absolute breeze.

I’m still getting to grips with not having the BlackBerry around me 24/7 and getting used to the differences between that and the E61 runnng Good might take me a while (especially since I upgraded the firmware on my E61 today).

First thing I try and do is sign up for Fasthosts’ hosted exchange product with Good Mobile Messaging.

All goes well with the signup and away we go with the GMM activation…. which fails miserably. Possibly because I used a dot in my username but who knows?!

I file a support request and open a second Fasthosts account because, well, I’m impatient.

Good appears to work on this one (no dot in my username!) but I don’t really go much further into using it as I discover a massive security hole that affects the privacy of every single user on the Fasthosts Exchange servers.

I file a support ticket with Fasthosts and am quickly told that I’m wrong and that there is nothing to worry about. I re-iterate the issue in easier to understand terms and await a response.

I called up on Monday to find out what was happening with the security issue and am told that they are “working with Microsoft” to fix the problem which they claim exists in Exchange (it’s not an Exchange specific problem, it’s their implementation of Exchange that is at fault). A quick fix could be issued to maintain the security of their existing users at but this has not been done.

I also requested on Monday that my domain name be released from my broken (and now closed) first account so that I can add it to the second account and at least sample GMM until their security hole is fixed. This should be a simple task (that to be honest should have automatically been done when they closed the account) but has so far taken three days.

I’m giving serious thought to using the T-Mobile BlackBerry service on the E61 instead of Good.

Speaking of BlackBerry, the Fasthosts’ service requires you to dedicate your whole domain to the Fasthosts servers, I’d much rather sign up for a single e-mail account with an address of (for example) user@pushmail.fasthosts.co.uk and have this account masquerade as my real e-mail address. This is how the non BES BlackBerry services work and, for me at least, is far more useful than Fasthost’s solution.

Hopefully Fasthosts will pull their finger out and get all this sorted soon (I’ll post another comment if they do!) but for the time-being my advice is to avoid them, it’s such a shame that they are the only GMM providers in the UK.

2. We don’t have FastHost in the US as far as I know. I have my website/email with a local webhost provider who rents space on a server in some server farm. What do you recomend I do in that case? Can I still run Good but keep my website/email with this small company?

Love the blog, please talk more about Good and what IM program you use. I personaly need MSN IM and the program I was using just stopped working. So suggestions would be great.

So what, if any, GTalk/Jabber clients are there for Series 60 that offer the same great level of integration and seamless operation as GTalk on the BlackBerry?

Help me break free of having to carry two mobile devices!