I am wanting to be able to email as well. I go into Accounts & Sync and unable to setup an email account.
Accounts & sync, then click on Add Account, then click on "Email", then put in my gmail address and password, and it gives me an error message: Couldn't Finish Username or password incorrect.
I do have a WiFi connection as I can surf the web. I know my email and password is correct. This is frustrating.
I also tried Manual Setup using POP and IMAP with similar results.