Best Android app for email? (iPhone, Samsung, AT&T, e-mail) - Cell Phones and Smartphones - - City-Data Forum

chmcke01 · 10-19-2011, 02:34 PM

I have 5 email accounts, and I really like how all of my email accounts are together in one inbox on the iPhone 4. I plan to upgrade to either the Samsung Galaxy S2 or the Galaxy Nexus (if it comes to AT&T) in the next month or so.

Is there an app that lets me have all of my email accounts in one inbox like on the iPhone?

CHIP72 · 10-19-2011, 04:49 PM

I think all Android-powered smartphones have a universal inbox feature built-in; you just need to make sure the settings are correct when you add your e-mail accounts. You can also look at e-mails from individual accounts.

jade408 · 10-20-2011, 02:25 AM

One note, the default android email client does not offer search. If this is important to you, you'll want to make sure the phone you choose bundles it's own mail app. Just test it out first. I found this bothersome on my Android. I believe HTC bundles a special email client.

You can group them into an single mailbox and set up multiple signatures if I recall.

chmcke01 · 10-20-2011, 07:52 AM

Does anyone know anything about the email app that comes on AT&Ts Galaxy S2? When I upgrade it will either be to the Galaxy Nexus (if it comes to AT&T) or the Galaxy S2.

padcrusher · 10-20-2011, 10:22 AM

Check out K-9 mail app. It works for me.

Tek_Freek · 10-20-2011, 10:29 AM

I use K-9 as well. It's been working great with all my accounts.

harhar · 10-20-2011, 10:41 AM

The default email client for Android on my Galaxy S2 is fine for me. It does have search but it only searches name lines and subject lines. That's all I'd need it for, for now as I only have two accounts. It's clean, fast and works.

Gmail for Android is better for searching, as it searches entire message bodies, but it's a bit slower because of it and you'd have to forward your other emails to it, to make it a unified inbox.

I've heard good things about K-9, but I don't need that level of functionality.

Peregrine · 10-24-2011, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CHIP72

I think all Android-powered smartphones have a universal inbox feature built-in; you just need to make sure the settings are correct when you add your e-mail accounts. You can also look at e-mails from individual accounts.

Actually they do not. Most of them, in fact, don't have ONE inbox that catches ALL your email.
You would need K9 for that.

swagger · 10-24-2011, 10:24 AM

Naptowner · 10-29-2011, 12:15 AM

I've used Touchdown, which is the only one I've found that handles multiple inbox folders properly, but it doesn't seem to allow you to have multiple accounts, and it doesn't seem to work properly with your contacts - you end up with a set of 'Touchdown Contacts' that are different from your regular contacts, and it can be hit and miss as far as autocompleting an email address. Also, we have Cisco voicemail at work (which emails you a .wav file of your voicemail messages) and have to download a paid third-party app to hear the messages, otherwise opening them just takes you to the Music app but nothing plays. Oh, and notifications take you to the individual message but then hitting the back button exits the app and you have to open it again to see the inbox.

Work just upgraded me from a Droid 1 to a Bionic so I'm trying to make do with the native Mail app but lack of search and folders means I'm probably going to switch up soon, maybe I should try K-9. I honestly don't see how anyone can claim with a straight face that Android is the best smartphone OS out there when it does such a miserable job of handling mail, which for 95% of work smartphone users is the only thing they truly need a smartphone for.