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As you've since discovered, the HTC Hero is renamed by T-Mobile, as the G2. Its an excellent phone, but one of your requirements is quality of texting, and it may not be as good as you wish at this.
The T-Mobile G1 has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, as does Winston's Motorola Dext (Orange network only I believe), and for texts, it would suit you. However, even thoough the G2 is a better phone, it utilises a virtual keyboard, a la the iBlown. Virtual keyboards still are nowhere near as accurate as physical keyboards.
The G2 is better then the G1 in every respect except the keyboard. But as I said in the first post of this thread, the amount of memory available for apps is so puny, as to be almost be beyond belief. Though you can still have loads of apps, its 256MB is nothing compared to the minimum 8GB (32 times the size of the G1) of the iMoan, and the 2GB of the G2 (8 times the size of the G1).
Fonehouse are still selling the T-Mobile G1, but T-Mobile themselves have sold all their stock, and moved on to later models.
Your choices on the T-Mobile contract are:
T-Mobile G1 - best keyboard, least memory for apps
T-Mobile G2 - camera with flash, most memory for apps, virtual keyboard
T-Mobile Pulse - no camera flash, biggest screen, virtual keyboard, best looking
I'd plump for the G2 or Pulse, but your need to text alot means that these may be really shit and annoying. Either wait till the Motorola Droid hits the shops, or get the G1. The physical keyboard will probably be the most important feature difference for you.
EDIT: matt (baddesigner) says [in the following post] the G2 virtual keyboard is fine, so I think I'd trust that recommendation