Recommend a free email that can be used with Android Op.

Something that plays nice. Don’t need many bells and whistles.

My Wife is getting a new Android phone and has never had an email outside of her work account. I use hughes.net, but we are reluctant to build an email for her there. Hughes has some real problems.

Hot mail? Google mail? Which, why and what others?

I’d go with Google mail, since Android is a Google product, and the integration between Gmail and Android is pretty much guaranteed to be easy & straight forward.

Gmail works very well with Android.

Yeah, GMail, no doubt.

I use Yahoo Mail’s app with my Yahoo Mail account. Works fine for me.

Gmail works very well indeed on my Android. The native app is excellent. Recommended.

Gmail, duh.

Ummm… yeah. And a duh on my part. Gmail it is. Thanks.

The email app that’s built in plays nicely with most POP3 and IMAP accounts. K9 deals with some of the bugs that the native app chose to ignore, plus it works with gmail.

If she’s getting an Android phone, it might require her to have a gmail account before she can activate it - at least mine did, about 14 months ago. My husband set up a throwaway account since he already has one he uses, but one was needed to go through the activation setup.

My info is old, though - they might have changed it.

Gmail is the only e-mail client worth using period, mobile phone or not.

I got my Android phone a few months ago (Samsung Captivate)…I don’t think a Gmail account was required, but signing in with your Gmail account was part of the initial setup. I’ve had no problems using Gmail on my phone. Getting my Roadrunner account to work with the built-in email program was a bit of a challenge, but it’s fine now.

They required me to create a Gmail account as well back in July.

I had to get a gmail account when I bought my droid last month. Works well.

Another vote for Gmail. It took 2 seconds to set it up on my Droid X and my wife’s Incredible. What more can you ask for than seamless integration?

Gmail can also pull emails from your wife’s work account and send messages from it, all from the same Gmail website or Android app.

Yes, since she will have to make a google account to use her phone anyway, might as well use the email portion of that account.

And just FYI, some Android phones (all of them?) have TWO email apps. One is just “email,” which will work ok, but the other is specifically the gmail app, so obviously plays nicer with gmail.