For the past several years, I have had my Apple-provided @me.com email address set up as an alias in Gmail, and enabled auto-forwarding of my iCloud emails to my Gmail account. This allows me to use ...
Whether you obtained a copy of iOS 5 as a developer or through less-official channels, you can get a free me.com email address right now. Here's how. In iOS 5, open the Settings app and tap iCloud.