Video: TouchDown Exchange client getting speech abilities and new Android 2.0 features

Video: TouchDown Exchange client getting speech abilities and new Android 2.0 features

TouchDown by NitroDesk.com

TouchDown by NitroDesk.com

My personal favorite app for the Android platform, the TouchDown Microsoft Exchange client by NitroDesk.com, is getting a whole slew of new features – many of which are tied to the new Android 2.0 system we see on the Motorola DROID.

I’ve been testing the latest beta builds of the TouchDown client and have put together a video that highlights both new and old features of the application, which I consider to be the best Exchange client available on any smartphone platform.  The new Android 2.0-specific text to speech and speech to text features are quite cool, but the new folder support in contacts and the filtering added all over is really great, too.

So if you or your company make use of Microsoft Exchange, and you want to take advantage of all of its features, including proper folder/category support for email/contacts/calendar/tasks, out of office messages, remote wipe, custom ringtones, and a slew of other features, then head over to the Android Market and search for “Exchange by TouchDown” to download and install the fully featured 5-day trial. If you love it as much as I do, you can buy the unlock key for $19.99.

Video after the jump.


And just for complete transparency here, I was provided a free unlock key to the application by NitroDesk.com some months ago, but that’s not why I’ve been using it ever since and have worked with the developer to test it. I do that because it’s an application I couldn’t live without.


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  • John J Irwin

    Was wondering why go with Touchdown on my MOTO DROID when I already have my exchange (I have and exchange server at home AND an exchange server at WORK)working as a native MOTO DROID feature??? I do like how it combines google, FaceBook, Twitter and ALL exchange contacts into one contact list. Will I still have that same feature?

    On the side, I do miss being able to use my Outlook TASKS and NOTES. Will I be able to use them?

    Also, the PIM (Calender mostly) is a real disaster and VERY quirky. I find it very hard to use compared to my days on WM5, WM6, WM6.5 and BlackBerry. I was a beta tester for PocketInformant to many years and I LOVE all of it… will TouchDown get me closer to PI?

    Lastly, I have a ton of appointments in my calender and about 2,000 contacts (allmost every field is full of information) so if I install TouchDown would I need to delete and disconnect the MOTO DROID exchange I’m using now and then load TouchDown (ie: would both databases bog down the DROID, etc.) Another feature that I REALLY liked was being able to connect to 2 or more exchange servers… you could only have ONE exchange calender but the contacts would merge so if you had a contact (lets say Bob Smith) in BOTH exchange accounts you would be presented with ONLY one contact with merged information on the DROID (along with Gmail, FaceBook, etc) Notes you had on a CUSTOMER would show seperately from PERSONAL notes (that would come from my HOME server)

    Lastly, BOTH my servers are running 2003 with all the latest service packs. will I get html emails to the DROID. Can you have a signature line(s) that could incorporate my corporate logos and formatted text?

    please email me at johnirwin@IrwinMarine.com

    John Irwin

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