If you have a copy of the IBM Java MIDP and can search around for the "GMail.PRC" file, you should be able to run it on any PalmOS 5.x device that can connect to the internet. It ran on my Palm TX (connected via Wifi and Bluetooth phone), and it currently runs on my wife's Treo 650 and my Treo 755p.

Digging up the GMail.prc shouldn't be hard, but the IBM Java MIDP isn't available from Palm's site anymore. I haven't tried to find it as I kept an extra copy of the .ZIP as soon as I heard that Palm wasn't going to distribute it on their site anymore.

-a

Do a search for "GMail.prc" and install that on your PalmOS device. You'll also want to install a "j9secpol.prc" to keep it from asking you for your permission to use the network all the time.

I used the GMail java app on my Palm TX for a while (using both WiFi and bluetooth-phone network connections). It worked really well, but the interface was suboptimal as I had to use the menus for most things.

With a non-keyboard device, it is difficult to impossible to take advantage of the shortcuts: Graffiti input was sub-optimal (some of the characters insert one character, and then replace it with another, making the shortcut do something entirely unanticipated); and soft-keyboard input was inconvenient as some shortcuts were on one screen and others were on another.

I recently bought a Treo 755p, and the application works even better with a hard keyboard for shortcut usage. Luckily, I saved a copy of the IBM Java MIDP before palm pulled it from their site.

There are two things that you can do to get the-gadgeteer.com in your from address:

1. you can just forward your mail to a regular GMail account and use Settings::Accounts::Send Mail As: and add accounts there. After a "challenge/response" email, when you're composing a mail, you can select which from line to use.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=22370

1. You can set up Google Apps for the-gadgeteer.com and ukulelereview.com and keep the mail for them separate.

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions.html

Personally, I did #2 and set the mails to forward to my regular GMail account. Then I did #1 and everything ends up in a single inbox. I don't have enough volume of mail to need to upgrade my storage, but even that is a reasonable cost these days. If I need to respond with a different "from:" line, I just change it when I'm composing the email.

-a

Personally, I just forward all of my mail to Gmail, both my regular gmail account and for my personal domain.

You could get "Gmail for your domain" for free for the-gadgeteer.com and use that. It also supports IMAP clients with the same inbox.

-alan

Does it play back video? That looks like it would be a pretty nice screen for doing so.

as an aside, I notice that Buy.com has it for $189.99 shipped right now.

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=206165764

[Edited at July 17, 2008 08:47:40 AM.]