Moxier have announced what they’re calling the first Exchange ActiveSync push email solution for the Android platform. The Moxier Mail Beta, which is now available in the Android Market, gives T-Mobile G1 users access to their Microsoft Exchange servers, supporting full direct push synchronization of email.
According to Emtrace, Moxier Mail works just like ActiveSync does on Windows Mobile handsets, meaning you’ll be able to receive, reply and compose emails on the G1 and send them via your Exchange server. It’s unclear what other functionality is supported; for instance whether you can search the Exchange server from the G1, or whether contacts and calendar entries are also synchronized.
Right now the Moxier Mail Beta is available free, but that looks set to change after March 31st 2009. We’re assuming it will be a paid application – Emtrace have not suggested exactly how much – which might suggest that the Android Market will be offering paid apps by that date.
Press Release:
Emtrace releases the world’s first Exchange ActiveSync® push e-mail for Android™
Emtrace Technologies USA, Inc. (www.moxier.com) has introduced Moxier Mail Beta in the Android™ market offering secure and direct push synchronization of corporate e-mail with Microsoft® Exchange server 2003 & 2007.
Direct push technology in Moxier Mail with licensed Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync® enhances end-user productivity in performing convenient access to the exchange server on Android™-powered phone (G1). With the push e-mail solution, G1 users can receive corporate e-mails, reply to urgent messages and compose new e-mails like on Blackberry and Windows Mobile smartphones.
Microsoft® Exchange is the leader in North American markets for their messaging and collaborative software, and Moxier Mail can fit right in to G1 to support it for all exchange users.
Moxier Mail includes many years of experience in wireless mobile solutions with Windows Mobile, LiMo, ALP, PalmOS platforms and Emtrace hopes Moxier line for Android™ and App Store will expand with more software and services attracting users’ needs.
Emtrace’s Moxier Mail Beta is now available for a limited time in the Android™ market with full version of Moxier Mail V1.0 to be released thereafter.
Key features for Moxier Mail Beta includes,
-Direct push synchronization with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 & 2007
-Easy to receive, reply, compose and delete Emails like on your computer
-Secure environment with SSL support
-HTML Email with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007About Emtrace Technologies USA, Inc.
Established in 2008, Moxier builds software and services right for mobile cloud computing.
1. One folder that includes the inbox and sent items.
2. Sync's up to 3 days only.
3. Attachments not available.
4. Composing text is limited to 3k bytes
5. Inline images not available
6. Contacts, Tasks, & Calendar not available
I'd love to see it handle #6
It worked on the first try; It's fast; The GUI is decent (but needs polishing); You can just tell this is a native written app targeting the Android and not some hacked together java libraries attached by a shoestring to some goofy UI.
It certainly needs more features - HTML mail, calendar support, just to name 2 huge ones. But in general a very promising start.
This is a real app. I would pay for it.
I'd love to know how much the paid version is going to run tho.
I wonder if the 3kb limitation for composed emails is really a beta "feature" or not. Can someone confirm that they've sent emails from their G1? How big is the email?
Program makes dumb assumptions on mail reply name.
Example our server name is exchange.ourcompay.com which means exchange defined secondary addresses as me@exchange.ourcompany.com
It made my email address me@exchange.ourcompany.com and didn't let me type in the actual address that is default on exchange which is me@ourcompany.com
(using example email address and domain names)
Message opening is slow (body)
No contacts, no calendar, etc.
Great effort to show Push works, but that's it...
Also any emails over 5K in the body get a "Sorry Moxier Mail Beta cannot support contents bigger than 5K bytes" - TRY AGAIN MOXIER.. This Beta isn't very useful if we can't see how large body messages are handled...
Sent items and Inbox are in the same view which isn't ideal ; this is so BB 2.0 days!
However the nay saying bloggers have moved on. It will be interesting to see what happens when some of these new Android devices start getting announced as early as next week and there aren't as many "issues" or "lacks" to speak of this time around. I believe some of the blog world just couldn't understand that its not about a single phone but about a platform. Just too much IPhone on the brain I guess.
There are several established mobile application development shops working on this same issue, Iambic being one of them. I expect next week will be very interesting in the Android Market.
I wonder if the Pre will get the same scruntiny and "what a let down" coverage.
Full calendar support (you can even scroll day by day), html email support (with images), contacts and sync support, emailing, option to include text you are replying to (an annoyance of lots of mobile devices is that they wipe the history... I hate that) and no fixed signatures (like those ridiculous "sent by Blackberry" ads).
Set the interval at any frequency you want. 5 min or whatever. Since this solution in the article has a listener it's polling the data the same way (frequency at 1 min?). Push only means something for iphones since they can't run apps in the background so push is the only way to alert the app that an email has arrived.
Go get it. Touchdown from Nitrodesk.com.
Work like a charm. Supports exchange 2003 and 2007.
I started using it early on when it was still beta and support was incredibly fast too. Multiple responses during the day and a fix the same day too. It's run solid for quite a while now.
I couldn't get touchdown to work -- my admin would not open the web services. The windows mobile and iphone devices in the office work just fine over ActiveSync, which apparently requires just OWA to be enabled.
Moxier starts the process of brining exchange support up the winmo/iphone level (it's not quie there yet, but it's a beta).
I'll be buying a copy.
All things considered, I'm looking for a version that sync contacts and calendar AND let me sync my email manually/on some intervals of time.