In my tenure with the mighty magenta, I have used two sidekicks…the ID, and the 2008. I returned the ID pretty quick as I had no data plan at the time, and the phone had no cam. My SK08 however was a different story. I loved that phone until I grew out of it. I recently purchased(and quickly sold) a MT3G Slide, as I wanted to have that full qwerty with the added bonus of android. First of all, I hated the keyboard. I rarely ever used the physical keyboard, which was a big reason I wanted the phone to begin with. Second, what T-Mobile did to the UI was horrible. I would have rather had stock 1.6 Android over the crappy 2.1 that was put on the slide.
When I think back between my SK08, and my MT3G Slide, I have to say, that for me, the SK08 was the better device. The keyboard was much easier to use, and easier to access(the slide was slippery, and a pain to slide). Web browsing was better on android, but I will credit that to android, not the slide, as my original MT3G, I thought had a better browser than the slide.
The only strong point of the slide, that I regret losing, was the 5mp cam with flash.
Maybe its just me, but the touch screen thing is kinda played out in my books. In the last two weeks, I have been swithcing back and forth between my original MT3G and my two old BB’s(Curve 8320 and Pearl 8120) and I have to say…if a new BB can match the MT3G in speed then I will be going back to that.
Now dont go thinking Im a hater, because that is not the case. I love the Android OS, I just didnt like the hardware of the Slide(except the cam), and Im not too thrilled with any of the current T-mobile android offerings, G2 included. Its just personal preference, I know, but, in my case, the MyTouch 3G Slide was the last android device I will have purchased or a very long time.