You can't change just the email address. You'd change the whole account or do some other irritating thing like the fixes above. Your email is your login for all of google.

Now, that said, if you don't use Calendar, Docs, etc, then who cares, change accounts and use the forward on the old one to gradually migrate. In fact, that's better than just changing the email as you will get email sent to the old address. And once you feel that you've gotten enough gleaned from you rold address, turn off the forwarding and let all the adverspam you signed up for rot on the old account.

You can't change just the email address. You'd change the whole account or do some other irritating thing like the fixes above. Your email is your login for all of Google.

Now, that said, if you don't use Calendar, Docs, etc, then who cares, change accounts and use the forward on the old one to gradually migrate. In fact, that's better than just changing the email as you will get email sent to the old address. And once you feel that you've gotten enough gleaned from you rold address, turn off the forwarding and let all the adverspam you signed up for rot on the old account.