I'm getting the MT4GS its free w/ a 2yr Contract. The Sensation is $99 w/ a 2yr Contract also. I like keyboards and the wife likes candybar phones. So its kinda funny because she has the CliqXT and I have the Cliq so its a big upgrade for us..lol

Sensation xD of course I miss the keyboard but I use SwiftKey and its pretty darn good :)
Ummm... It's basically just like the Amaze but it doesn't have NFC (if it makes a difference) and and idk that's basically it, the Sensation has the Amaze camera ported to it and it already has CM7 and MIUI and sense 3.5. The kernel on the Sensation is more mature and has amazing battery life. I'm also working on an ICS port with someone from xda... Ummm yeah... The Sensation is not only sensational but it's a phone to amaze hehe (pun intended)

@Double0EK very big upgrade lol. I remember when I first got my Sensation I was like omg!!! And now it's even faster with all the development so I hope you all feel like that :)

Oops should've refreshed..

What's NFC?

Really! And what a price difference too!! The Sensation refurbished is $99. IDK if that makes a difference or not. 

$99 brand new @ BestBuy for the Sensation.

EMMC = Electronic Multi-Media Card. It has something to do with flash memory. Just had to quickly google it. Don't know too muchm

Amaze has the same memory type as sensation. Emmc only difference is amaze has 16gb built in.

NFC is near field communication, the thing that google wallet uses to pay for things wirelessly and so on.

:)

Also id recommend wirefly.com they usually have the best prices. Also if you tweet them they might give you a code for something xD

I tried to look on wirefly from my phone but it didn't work. Still didn't get my laptop fixed so I don't have any pc to browse on..

I personaly went to the cliq2. Its not the most flashy dashy phone but it is a good solid phone and so far has taken a beating in the 9 months i have had it. The best i can say is that it is what the original cliq should have been. And there is some dev work happening on it as well. I am running 2.3.4 gingerbread and cm7 is all but totaly ported to the phone.

@alarmdude9 I was originally thinking of the Cliq2, back when it first came out, but when I saw it I wasn't totally in love with it and Motorola was soooo slow with the upgrades for the Cliq 

@rachelm920 Since I started working at T-Mobile I have had a lot of time to play with the phones :-) Since I know you will be Modding the phone, I would go with either the Galaxy S2 or the sensation as @JassyCliq suggested both have CM7 and MIUI already. The S2 has a OC kernel running at 1.8 if you like speed ;-) BTW I thought the same thing about MIUI but it is now my daily ROM for my G2X (also a great phone if you want something more affordable) And as for the keyboard you get used to it and its getting hard to find good phones with a keyboard ( take the double play and mytouch q for example)

I put a lot of thought into what phone i would like when it came time for me to upgrade and i played with just about every phone out right now till i settled on the galaxy s 2 . Its not perfect but dam near close too it and of all the phones out this one seems to be the best. I would save your self a lot of frustration and get the s2, trust me. They don't make phones like they use to and the cliq is a far better phone then its given credit for. I love my s2 and wouldn't want any other phone and i don't miss the physical keyboard at all lol. Hope you get the phone you want good luck

Let me just say...

qHD > > > 800x600 tehehe especially on that 4.6" screen. I will say this that the s2 has a gorgeous display... Still have heard tons of issues on the pixels and crap.

Windows phones have nice animations but that's about as far as they go lol android is king and so far sgs2 is the best. Even people that have gotten the nexus s have gone back to the sgs2 . You would have to have it for a day to understand . Just playing with one in the store isn't enough .I've had a few phones at home for a week or 2 and so far the s2 is the shiz . Its so smooth and stable and the display ? Omg ! Just beautiful . Animations are beautiful and the dialer doesn't lag at all. That's a big one I've noticed . Just look at the benchmark scores ! Its pretty much at the top. Depending on the test you run.

Laughing My Filipino Ass Off!!

Damn "Double" post

@troutslayermv i totally agree. SGS2 is awesome, but i just gave another suggestion, if anyone wants to go with a WP7, it's pretty amazing too.:-)

Like @rachelm920 said, she doesnt like samsung... Personally I say that it depends on the phone... the Vibrant was pretty darn good... but you had to mess around with it... A LOT. Then the GPS problems and so on. Super AMOLED is great screen but for the huge screen that the SGS II has (4.6") the 800x600 resolution is too big O.o Reason for high benchmark scores is because how little it has to work compared to qHD devices... Plastic... yeah, im not a fan of it... 

Nexus S 99.99 on wirefly.com for T-Mobile :-)

I've heard that the only thing good about the nexus s is android 4.0 other then that it isn't that great . On xda a few people went back to sgs2 and decided to just wait for ics . I think there is no perfect phone but from all the ones I've used sgs2 is one of the best. The atrix is pretty bad ass too but its not available due to the atrix 2 coming out. I had the atrix and atrix2 for awhile and atrix 1 is deff better and there are some mods to have the webtop without the dock. Honesty if i could of got another atrix 1 i would have but i had a lot of issues with the atrix 2 so i moved away from Motorola . So like we have all been sayin its up to the user and there needs . But i disagree with the comment about not much running on the sgs2 , it has duel 1.2 gig processor and with all the animations and touchwiz its still fast with crazy benchmark scores stock! People have mod on there sgs2 gettin scores over 10,000 so yeah...that's insane lol

Fyi after talkin with a Samsung rep quote "we have been testing and preparing for the release of ics even before the release of the sgs2 . Ics update will be released very soon" as we all know ics Is optimized for duel core so we should see some amazing things from the s2 very soon ;-)

@rachelm920
In my personal opinion:
If you want a Physical Keyboard, go with the myTouch 4G Slide.

If you can live without the Keyboard, go for the Amaze 4G.
The Amaze 4G is better than the Sensation and it's newer, that means that it might get official upgrades for longer time.
And about modding, it's true that the Sensation already has CM7 and MIUI support, but it's just a matter of time for the Amaze 4G to catch up with it.

Well... @samyg I'm an android gal for life... ppl have tried to sell me on Blackberry and iPhone it just doesn't work...

BTW is the Sensation/Amaze a HDPI phone or MDPI? 

I believe its HDPI. I too have had an upgrade available right now but i cant make up my mind on what phone to get between the sensation or gs2 as well.

Its HDPI but heres the catch the sub-category is qHD, some things wont play nicely from pure HDPI ;)

Hmmmm.... I'm still undecided especially with the qHD thing going on. That'll make it difficult for me to theme. Maybe I will keep an eye on tmo news and see if they have any other phones upcoming in Jan-Feb.

Now looking more at the S2, I am actually tempted by it... I'm gonna wait till hubbie gets his S1 and see how I like it.

S2 looks great. Awesome user reviews.