Exchange By TouchDown

by NitroDesk, Inc.

Product Details

• ASIN: B004SKASNW
• Original Release Date: November 21, 2008
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 21, 2011
Rated: Guidance Suggested This app may include dynamic content. What's this?

All Ages

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for all users and contains no objectionable content or advertisements.




Guidance Suggested

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for most users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, infrequent or mild references to violence, profanity, or crude themes, or other content not suitable for all ages.







Mature

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for mature users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, mild sexual and suggestive themes, nudity within medical, informational, or artistic contexts, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for mature audiences.







Adult

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for adults. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, sexual and suggestive themes, nudity, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for adult audiences.



This application contains content that is downloading real-time, based on inputs from the user or developer. The maturity rating associated with this application pertains only to the static elements of the application and does not cover any dynamic information (e.g. websites, friend postings, tweets). Dynamic content is defined as any content that may change within the application. Content can include animations, video or audio.
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (161 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,008 Free in Appstore for Android (See Top 100 Free in Appstore for Android)
  • #60 in Appstore for Android > Productivity

Product Features

• Connect to your company's Exchange Server
• Access e-mail, contacts, calendars, and more
• Take advantage of the security offered using 3DES encryption
• Place Email, Calendar, Tasks, and Universal widgets on your home screen
• Wipe your device remotely if your phone is lost or stolen

Technical Details

• Size: 6MB
• Version: 7.3.00052
• Developed By: NitroDesk, Inc.
• Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
  • com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT
  • Call into AccountAuthenticators
  • Send SMS messages
  • Write to external storage
  • Write SMS messages
  • Access information about Wi-Fi networks
  • Monitor incoming SMS messages, to record or perform processing on them
  • Initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call being placed
  • Access the list of accounts in the Accounts Service
  • Read the user's contacts data
  • Write (but not read) the user's contacts data
  • com.android.launcher.permission.UNINSTALL_SHORTCUT
  • Act as an AccountAuthenticator for the AccountManager
  • Read only access to phone state
  • Read SMS messages
  • Write the sync settings
  • Get notified that the operating system has finished booting
  • Open network sockets
  • Read the sync settings
  • Manage the list of accounts in the AccountManager
  • Access the vibration feature
  • Access information about networks
  • PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
• Minimum Operating System: Android 2.0
• Approximate Download Time: Less than 1 minute

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

64 of 72 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Only supports ONE account at a time November 19, 2011

By -TMcN-

Amazon Verified Purchase

When you see so many pure-positive reviews, it's sometimes because we know that fans of a product will thumbs-down (or "unhelpful") an accurate and honest review that finds flaws in a product they love. That really squelches negative reviews.

I must always be connected to three email accounts, two of which are different (and tricky) Exchange servers. My Android phones can connect, but most fuller email clients have a hard time. The Kindle Fire basic email only handles POP and IMAP. Most of the other Kindle Fire-compatible email apps (e.g. K-9, which is free) couldn't configure for them.

TouchDown does. No problem there. But only one account at a time. To use the other, I must switch profiles, effectively logging out of one and into the other.

It is the easiest and fullest product available if one Exchange account is sufficient for you though.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Best exchange active sync for Fire out there November 24, 2011

By Paul Bratland

Amazon Verified Purchase

I am the owner of a computer consulting company and have five other devices besides the kindle fire. I was disappointed by the internal email client and downloaded touchdown. I was configured and running in less then 5 minutes and had a complete sync of information shortly there after. It fully populated emails, contacts, tasks, and calendar. It supports more features then some other device implementations of activesync. Such as categories is calendars, and followup flags in tasks.

Wonderful program. Very reasonable price, and doesn't require "tech support" to setup and be productive.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Works VERY well for me :-) May 25, 2011

By ChicagoCPA TOP 500 REVIEWER

Amazon Verified Purchase

We have a corporate exchange server and we are required to use this App with ActiveSync on most Android phones to meet security concerns.

It took quite a while to set it up properly, but once I finally figured it all out, it is working great. I have zero complaints regarding day to day usage and I like that I can see my tasks as well as calendar and email and contacts (this may be the ONLY app out there that will sync tasks). I rely heavily on Tasks in Exchange and this does not seem to have a size limit either (my old Microsoft phone would mercilessly cut them off if they got too long in Exchange).

I like that the corporate required password is not blocking my phone, just email. I like the summary that brings all the important tasks and calendar items and emails on one main entry screen. I like the HUGE buttons to enter my password.

Since it is primary designed to work with Microsoft Outlook/Exchange, I am suprised to find that they did not follow the contact field names more closely. Mostly with addresses. They have 3 boxes without description. In Outlook each box represents Home/Business/Other and within each, there are multiple fields for Street, City, State, ZipCode. In Touchdown, you have to know ahead of time which box is Home and that one box is the entire address and each line is a separate field. VERY non-intuitive.

I would like it even more if it showed my email items in my todo list as it does in Outlook instead of just tasks and calendar items.

It took a while to find it, but there are lots of options for notification sounds under the eMail Alerts button.

<Update: My firm recently updated their exchange server and I was having trouble with Touchdown not seeing the categories properly. I cleared the data and uninstalled Touchdown and reinstalled it and it works beautifully now. Every single complaint I had has been addressed and it looks more polished as well.

Complaints addressed: You can now link back to edit the contact within Touchdown from the Android/Phone contact list. You can now link back to view the contact info from the header of an email. You can now click and delete multiple emails at once and they are now also deleted on the Exchange server as well (not just the phone). I am a VERY happy camper right now.>

Phone: HTC Thunderbolt with Android 2.3.4