how do we delete our gmail account of gphone

[Jesse]

Don't blame Google for "forcing" anything on you, when you didn't do enough research before buying the phone.

[ghoonk]

This should be the catchphrase for the year. It holds so true for all these whiners who expected MS Office support, PDF support, DivX support, Flash support, etc -- didn't do their homework, and so the adage goes, a fool and his money are soon parted.

[JoePete]

Talk about the sophomoric leading the naive, and then blasting each other for it.

I can think of a few reasons to try to limit or eliminate the gmail backend, privacy being a big issue. I mean you all have read the Google Privacy Policy and the particular privacy practices of its some 56 subsidiary or affiliated services - come on now, just as WE all researched the Android OS, I am sure YOU all researched Google's privacy policy. Second, eliminating certain parts of the Google backend reduce the number of background services and communication back and forth; in short enhance performance and battery life. Third, the Google app is not always the cat's meow. Google Groups is horrendous compared to a decent newsreader, and Gmail, while it has many nice features, lacks compared to several mail clients in an ability to create sophisticated filters or scripts - such as those of in the open-source community have come to celebrate.

This leads to the other ridiculous sniping going on here. I believe the original poster was fair in his connecting the rather closed nature of Android OS and Google backend with a philosophy that seemed anti-open-source. Back up for a moment: All you Mensa candidates so quick to quibble here, let me ask you: How does Google make money? Primarily through their stock value (shareholder impression) and advertising (which drives shareholder impression). They are not providing their services out of the goodness of their heart. They are one giant market research company. Now the fact that they are using relatively open tools to do it is great, but in the end, their data is a proprietary product. Let's call a spade a spade here.

[ggrant3876]

Talk about the sophomoric leading the naive, and then blasting each other for it.

I can think of a few reasons to try to limit or eliminate the gmail backend, privacy being a big issue. I mean you all have read the Google Privacy Policy and the particular privacy practices of its some 56 subsidiary or affiliated services - come on now, just as WE all researched the Android OS, I am sure YOU all researched Google's privacy policy. Second, eliminating certain parts of the Google backend reduce the number of background services and communication back and forth; in short enhance performance and battery life. Third, the Google app is not always the cat's meow. Google Groups is horrendous compared to a decent newsreader, and Gmail, while it has many nice features, lacks compared to several mail clients in an ability to create sophisticated filters or scripts - such as those of in the open-source community have come to celebrate.

This leads to the other ridiculous sniping going on here. I believe the original poster was fair in his connecting the rather closed nature of Android OS and Google backend with a philosophy that seemed anti-open-source. Back up for a moment: All you Mensa candidates so quick to quibble here, let me ask you: How does Google make money? Primarily through their stock value (shareholder impression) and advertising (which drives shareholder impression). They are not providing their services out of the goodness of their heart. They are one giant market research company. Now the fact that they are using relatively open tools to do it is great, but in the end, their data is a proprietary product. Let's call a spade a spade here.

You must be spam, you resurected to 2008 post for your rant. In case your not, all you need a gmail account for is to sign into your account, you don't need to use it for your email.

[McKnightJT]

I'm not sure if this will help anyone, but I got a droid a few days ago and did the following steps:

From the home screen, choose the Menu button -> Settings -> Accounts -> Choose the account you want to delete and "Remove Account" is at the bottom.

Kinda hard to get to (to quote Serenity) if you're looking to do this from the GMail app itself, but this worked for me.

[nishadek]

Press 'Menu' in (hardware button), go to settings-->Accounts & Sync--> then select the account you want to delete. Next click 'delete' and its all done !!!