Decisions, decisions...

As many people know, I (and my wife) have Verizon Wireless cell service. I've been really disappointed over the last few years or so at Verizon's so-so rate plans and especially disappointed with their pathetic line-up of handsets, the bulk of which you can probably label as 'feature-phones', or phones that look cool but don't really do much.
I've been getting ready to ditch Verizon for Sprint or (gasp) AT&T and the iPhone. But Verizon just launched a game changer a couple of days ago that's making me rethink that decision (sorry, Ben).

By now, everyone must have heard of Verizon's new handset that was just released, the Droid. This device is, IMHO, a very, very serious competitor to Apple's iPhone 3GS. It has a better higher res screen, removable battery, 16-32GB micro-SD card memory, multitasking, free turn-by-turn GPS, physical keyboard, etc. iDon't think it's an iPhone killer, though.

There are three things that I'm on the fence about with the Droid, now that I've used an iPod touch for a while:

iDon't - like Android 2.0's media app, it really looks horrible and pales in comparison to iPhone OS 3.1's app. You can't even mention the 2 in the same sentence. Will Google update this in a later update (Android 3.0, perhaps)? Who knows. But it's important to me, plus there is as of yet no viable syncing software for Android that can compete with iTunes.

iDon't - like the lack of multitouch. Come ON, Verizon, Moto, and Google!! Google, you build multitouch capability into Android. Verizon & Moto, you release the Milestone in Europe (essentially an overseas Droid) with this capability. Palm's Pre has it, Verizon's own Droid ERIS has it; come ON! How did they miss this? My guess is that the Droid CAN do multitouch, but was released without it for some inexplicable reason. I can only hope that it can get 'turned on' through some over the air or software/firmware update. I was playing with the Droid on Friday and found myself instinctively trying to pinch to zoom and not being able to REALLY was annoying. The Droid does have zooming soft buttons onscreen but their functionality is really limited when comparing to the iPhone.

Last, iDont - like the severely limited podcast search and playback options. Note - I just found out about Google Listen, so this iDon't may turn out to be an iDo.

So, I'm sitting on the fence to see what happens in the next 6-12 months with Apple, Motorola, and Verizon. I'll see how the device and OS landscape shakes out before iDecide what to do.

What does everyone else think of these two devices and their respective networks?