Android's Mobile Email An Epic Fail?

Uh oh. Reports are pouring in from users of the HTC G1 Android phone and the news is not good. Users are saying that the mobile e-mail client fails to retrieve e-mail and reports mysterious "connection errors." Many complain that mobile e-mail doesn't work at all on the G1. Google, T-Mobile and HTC, you'd better fix this one fast...The posts over at Forums.T-Mobile.com are pretty damning.

One user writes:

This user is not happy, and asks for help. Another frustrated user writes:

There are pages and pages of complaints about the G1's ability -- or, in this case, inability -- to retrieve e-mail. Perhaps the one that hurts the most reads:

From my perspective, the G1's mobile e-mail product worked flawlessly for about one week. The day that the device launched, the Gmail client stopped working entirely. I was never able to resurrect the e-mail system before I needed to return the phone to T-Mobile. I don't know if my device was experiencing the same issues as these users, but the end result is the same: no e-mail.

This is a pretty major problem, T-Mobile, Google and HTC. Mobile e-mail is supremely important to many. I hope that fixing this is a high priority for all involved.