So now that a lot of us have had the device for a few months and have played around with various apps and maybe settled into habits/solutions we like:

How do you prefer to access a gmail account from the edge?

I don't mind but am not entirely satisfied with the built in mail app. I find myself browing to the full desktop version (using LastPass) so that I can have labels, filters, one-button archive (rather than move to all mail in the native client). The mobile version doesn't work in any browser I've tried. (Keeps telling me I need to reestablish a connection.) The desktop view works perfectly every time.

I find that the native app respects the filters I have on gmail just fine - I have some less-important (flyers etc.) incoming mail sorted into folders. But I do need to be in gmail to make any changes to filters, labels etc.because I want that information at the source, for no matter which device I happen to check email from. Also, I don't like how the native app "double counts" my unread emails - once in the inbox and once in "all mail" due to the folder settings for checking email that I have set.

I tried MailDroid for a couple of days, but one issue I noticed was that if I tried to forward a message, the forwarded text was uneditable. So, when my husband sent me a copy of a visa statement to pass on to a vendor with a ":*" as the entire subject, I couldn't forward the email because the vendor would have seen that. Odd that it wouldn't support it, and maybe I just missed. (though I tried to check menus thouroughly).

Are there any other outside-of-market apps you're using that you find work well with gmail? I guess some of you with emulators or Android phones are using a native gmail app. Do you like it? Is it worth hunting down? (I have a download of what claims to be some google apps' apks, just haven't got around to opening it yet.)

So just curious to know how everyone else is using gmail!