Thinking of picking this up but how has the market situation been addressed so far? I mean officially? Have they provided access to non-Google source in updates? Or is it up to the user to find a work around or another market themselves?
It even simpler to add market now with clockworkx's non-ugly market fix coupled with linckraker's v3 update does all the rooting, adding clockwork mod and other useful things Augen Gentouch - Wiki
Only the Desire Z seems to fit this, as it is one of the first few phones to ship with 2.2, and the only one with a keyboard as far as I know. As for the features disabled, I can't imagine HTC disabling anything, if it did happen, it would probably be due to the carrier