First post.
I was searching for a good deal on Touchdown HD (which I was led to believe is the premier ActiveSync email client on Android). Currently Touchdown HD license costs $22.31.
Found a deal for Nine instead, a highly ranked alternative with (allegedly) a better user interface. According to the developer, the normal price is US $19.99 but currently on special for US $9.99. I paid $14.04 with my Bankwest Zero Platinum Mastercard.
Works great with my corporate MS Exchange and Outlook.com account, love the ability to set sync schedules, enable in-app encryption and passcode lock.
Key features (as per the Google Play description)
- Direct Push Synchronization with Exchange ActiveSync. Nine does not have any server to store user's Nine data. Nine app connects to user server directly. All Nine data is stored in user device only.
- Great user experience & beautiful GUI
- Multiple accounts
- Calendar and Contacts (Integrated into stock Calendar and Contacts application along with Nine account)
- Rich-Text Editor (Android KitKat and higher)
- Client Cert
- S/MIME
- IRM
- Global Address List (GAL)
- Favorite Folder (Be able to check out all of email messages including sub-folders in one special folder at a time)
- Select folders to push (Email notification per each folder)
- Automatic setup for many popular email services like Office 365, Exchange Online, Hotmail, Live.com, Outlook, MSN or Google Apps
- Full HTML (inbound, outbound)
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- Hybrid Email Search (Integrate with fast local search and online search)
- Conversation Mode
- Unread Badge (Nova Launcher, Apex Launcher, DashClock and Samsung & LG devices)
- Widgets (Unread badge, Shortcuts and Email list)
- SMS sync (Exchange 2010 and higher)
- Supports Android Wear
- Notes Sync (Exchange 2010 and higher)
- Tasks Sync (Recurrence Tasks, Reminder, Categories)
Supported Servers
- Exchange Server 2003 SP2/SP3 and above
- Office 365
- Hotmail
- Outlook.com
- Google Apps
- Other servers(IBM Notes Traveler, Groupwise, Kerio, Zimbra, Horde, IceWarp, MDaemon etc) supported Exchange ActiveSync
- Notice: The general Gmail users couldn't use Nine because Google had changed the policy not to support ActiveSync for general Gmail users on January 2013. You can find detailed information at below link titled “Google Sync End of Life”.
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=27169…
The users for paid Google apps can use to sync with ActiveSync. Thus, the users can use Nine.
** Available Android
- Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and above
** Note
Nine is not cloud based. It stores your accounts’ passwords only on the actual device. It connects only to the actual mail servers. It stores your messages only on the device.
Note: No expiry date on the promo, thus I put 1 week from today
It's been this price for a while now. I bought it few weeks ago and it's the best email client I've used. If you have the $5 telstra prepaid kits you can buy it for practically nothing with the credit, that's what i did.