I’ve had various phones through out the years, finally ending up on T-Mobile with the Sidekick for almost two years.  I was happy when my contract was up because I thought I’d make that giant leap to something like the iPhone or a more serious phone.  However, I found that the myTouch3g was coming out soon enough that it made me want to wait and see before making a serious commitment to switch phones.

And currently, I must say that I quite love my decision to go with the myTouch3g instead of the iPhone.  The screen’s fanastically clear and responsive (99% of the time).  Sure, it doesn’t have the multi-touch function but the advantage is I can currently use my phone with one hand instead of needing two to do somethings.  I priced comparable plans for both the iPhone and the myTouch3g and the myTouch3g was about $20 less a month for services, so that’s a bonus of $240 a year, or since my plan is now $10 more than I was paying, I’m still saving $120 over the iPhone.  Not to mention, I have much better 3G coverage and reception in the places where I work and live compared to my iPhone using friends.

There are some downsides though.  Sometimes the screen isn’t fast enough to keep up with what I’m typing, but that’s rare enough I can deal with it.  Also the screen sometimes doesn’t switch from landscape to portrait when I want it to and causes me to shake it a couple of times until it does so.  I have a personal hard time hitting the right keys sometimes but I’m also too lazy to install a different keyboard.  Auto-correct usually does just fine in most cases.  If you use the Sidekick a lot for AIM you’ll probably have issues transfering into the myTouch3g, but it has full gTalk, so I’m not missing too much.  I quickly got over the lack of AIM through gTalk and AIM mobile.  The camera has no flash but I don’t really use it very often so I can’t really judge on that aspect.

Apple may tell you there’s an app for that, but Android has them too and I have everything I need to live my life through my phone.  With the non-Sidekick limited brower, there’s so much more information I can look up on line to when needed to settle those friendly debates about something.  So overall my new 3-month old phone, I give you .  I hope one day you have a real mobile AIM solution and that I’ll learn to master your keyboard.  And if you like the physical keyboard go with the g1 but I hear they won’t be pushing software updates to that shortly, so wait for the Hero on Sprint.