[G2 and Desire Z General] crestofawave:
The only thing I personally envy about the Doubleshot is the fact it has more memory. Other than that, it's a worthy upgrade.

Before buying the Vision I was coming from the Touch Pro 2 (codename Rhodium), which had a definitely superior keyboard. Now I'm not too satisfied about the h/w keyboard feedback on the Vision. It's an important point, to me at least. After reading the review as well as several replies (yours included) it seems the Doubleshot has even less key feedback than the Vision, as well as inferior build quality in general, from what I gather, anyway.

One of it's strong points, however is the fact it's thinner than the Vision, has a superior camera, and more RAM. Other than that, I wasn't particularly impressed by the additional hardware, or features. Inarguably the Doubleshot has a blazing fast Snapdragon Dual Core processor but the S2 Scorpion, when overclocked to about 1,3-1,5GHz is also considerably fast. It is natural that the menus may stutter at times, even with no animations turned on but speed does NOT degrade. I can play music that goes through PowerAMP and DSPManager with no lag at all. I can play games like Shadowgun with the CPU clocked at 1,1GHz and I get no stutter at all. Everything else, works as intended.

By the way, from your signature I also gather that you're using SuperCM7, a ROM that last received an update at June 2011, thus being heavily outdated, when compared to the constantly updated PyroICE'd ROM your Doubleshot has. I think you should try the latest version of the ILWT ROM by Tsubus, which should be considerably faster when compared to SuperCM7.

Most importantly, I can enjoy HSPA+ speeds in my country, which wouldn't be the case if I had a Doubleshot. This is a factor that shouldn't be taken lightly. T-Mobile users won't have an issue with that as their radio supports the T-Mob frequencies. In European countries, like Greece for example, this is not the case. If I for example were using a Doubleshot here I would have to deal with the crappy EDGE speeds and availability. So for T-Mobile this may be a worthy upgrade, but they only consist maybe a third of the userbase here on the Vision fora.

So while this *may* potentially be a worthy upgrade for T-Mobile (or any other carrier that supports the same radio freq bands), for the rest of us it spells "No way Jose". It seems to me that the factor you consider as most important when comparing two phones is how fast the phone is, thus overlooking the rest. I partly gathered this from the replies you've made here, as well as the reply in the thread you linked to above. You just keep stressing the fact that the Doubleshot is faster. With that said, I also consider performance an important factor, but there are other factors that make a phone good. Most of us bought the Vision because it seemed like a phone that would be rock solid, and it is. It has plenty of dev support, premium build quality, a hardware keyboard and supports HSPA+ speeds. So, if you take all of the above into account the Vision will probably suffice for more or less, a year. By then, HTC will have a worldwide shipped keyboard device, which will probably be worthy to upgrade to.

I think this sums it up.