I'm looking for a widget (probably with an underlying app) that aggregates messages (SMS), mail (exchange/IMAP), gmail (android client, not IMAP via mail app) and facebook messages. Motorola has something along this line in their droid devices, and Samsung had the discontinued social hub. Anyone know any good 3rd party options?
Try pure messenger widget...
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Hi Folks,
I have been using an iPhone 3G till now and just made the switch to Android. Just received my Atrix today and spent time getting familiar with Android/Motoblur and setting things up.
Now, I am really confused between these three apps
1. Email
2. Messaging
3. Gmail
From the time I've spend playing around, I know that Email and Messaging look pretty much the same, except that messaging also has text messages. So why do we have these two separate apps? Then there is Gmail. If I have a gmail account, should I add it to the Motoblur accounts or set it up with the Gmail app? Why are there so many overlapping apps?
Basically all I want is a single app where I can check all my emails from different accounts just like iPhone's native email app.
Please be easy on me as I am an android newbie Thanks in advance!
- Gmail is Google's gmail app that supports multiple gmail accounts
- Email is Moto's email app that supports different types of email accounts (integrated with MotoBlur)
- Messaging is Moto's text and MMS app
agentdr8 said:
- Gmail is Google's gmail app that supports multiple gmail accounts
- Email is Moto's email app that supports different types of email accounts (integrated with MotoBlur)
- Messaging is Moto's text and MMS app
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"Messaging" actually integrates texts, GMail, and the MotoBlur Email client. There is also a "Text Messaging" app that just handles texts. If you use the "Messaging" widget, you can even get FB messages on it.
Oops, I stand corrected. Was thinking about the captivate's Messaging.
samgnb said:
Hi Folks,
I have been using an iPhone 3G till now and just made the switch to Android. Just received my Atrix today and spent time getting familiar with Android/Motoblur and setting things up.
Now, I am really confused between these three apps
1. Email
2. Messaging
3. Gmail
From the time I've spend playing around, I know that Email and Messaging look pretty much the same, except that messaging also has text messages. So why do we have these two separate apps? Then there is Gmail. If I have a gmail account, should I add it to the Motoblur accounts or set it up with the Gmail app? Why are there so many overlapping apps?
Basically all I want is a single app where I can check all my emails from different accounts just like iPhone's native email app.
Please be easy on me as I am an android newbie Thanks in advance!
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To answer your other question, if you want to use the Moto "Messaging" with Universal Inbox then all you have to do is go to Accounts and select Google at the bottom and deselect "Sync Email" and then just setup your Gmail through Moto's Email client and you can get all your emails (just once) in the universal inbox. If you use both then you will receive redundant notifications for your Gmail.
I'm a little disappointed with the standard Atrix mail widget. Just one entry and it's blank if there is no new mail. I'd love to know what people think are the best mail widgets that can work with Atrix. I'd like to find one that can handle a combination of POP, iMAP and Exchange Server. And it can list multiple entries and optionally list mail whether it is unread or not. I simply can't get K9 working with our Exchange Server, and my phone is rooted, so Email Widget and Pure Messenger don't work. The Touchdown widget is nice, but Touchdown doesn't integrate with GMail (iMap) or POP3. What do you think?
Enhanced Email is supposed to provide a single inbox for Exchange/GMail/POP mail etc, but haven't tried it myself.
Cheers
Dan
Enhanced E-mail is the bee's knees!!! The only E-mail app I use... all stock email programs, processes, universal inbox, etc. are frozen.
"Bee's knees??"
Swiftks said:
Enhanced E-mail is the bee's knees!!! The only E-mail app I use... all stock email programs, processes, universal inbox, etc. are frozen.
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Dude, you must be like 90. Congratulations on keeping up with technology!
Anyone here that had the 2.3.6 Mail app an upgraded to ICS, can you tell us if there is any improvement in the activsync capable mail app?
anyone?
For instance, does the 4.0.3 exchange client support multi select yet?
Does it support Notes syncing from exchange 2010 servers?
Is there any Office365 additions?
ICS allows mulitple selections, syncs Mail, Kalendar and Contacts.
Notes and Tasks are NOT synched.
The E-Mails are now displayed properly and the Contact handling is really cool as it integrates tie information about the Contact from Exchange, Facebook, Google+, Yahoo,.... in one Tab.
ugh. So if I want Notes and Tasks I need to for out for a 3rd party email app?
Such as :
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nitrodesk.droid20.nitroid
or
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.moxier.mail
Since google is stopping support for the exchange option for gmail (unless you pay for hosted email / google premium services). what are other options to get email, contacts and calendar without using separate protocols like mail (imap, smtp, pop3), calendar (caldav), and contacts (cardav) ?
Of course if you use the gmail app, it's not an issue, but for users that like the separate email apps (like the htc email app) , this could be an inconvenience. I do not believe setting up a 3rd party email app using the Google protocol uses push email).
** http://www.coolsmartphone.com/2012/12/14/google-to-stop-exchange-support/
*** I've been testing a mixed sync of google for contacts and calendar and exchange for email (my email is being domain at gmail) and contacts and calendar work fine. No real solution for push mail as of yet, and imap is too slow
Something cool about the new-ish facebook messenger app is that you can also use it for your SMS text messaging. Is there an app out there like this that also integrates other messaging clients like Hangouts?
Ideally, I'd like something that has SMS, facebook messenger, and google hangout conversations all in one list, with an icon on each conversation indicating what service it is associated with. Another (maybe better) option would be to have a tab for each service along the top of the interface so you can switch between them and stay organized.
I've looked around and found several multi-client messengers like Trillian or IM+, but none of them seem to do SMS as well.