Have you tried the HTML version of Gmail? https://mail.google.com/mail/h/ https://mail.google.com/mail/h/ I've used this on my kindle keyboard while traveling

Have you tried the HTML version of Gmail? https://mail.google.com/mail/h/ https://mail.google.com/mail/h/ I've used this on my kindle keyboard while traveling but the free data speed might still have been faster than 32kbps.