We went to our local Verizon Wireless store yesterday to check out the phones I previously mentioned here.

I guess they do this new thing now where you kind of… sign in when you get to the store, and then when your name is called – well, we actually don’t know because we didn’t stick around for our name to be called. Maybe when it’s your turn, you have a personal salesperson to harass you?

The Droid isn’t as bad as I had perceived it. Plus, it has a keyboard, which I think I like better than the touchscreen keyboard. The iPod touch I have is, as you’re aware, a phone-less iPhone. I’ve used the touchscreen keyboard on it quite a bit, and it isn’t horrible. I think that Anna and I agree that we like keyboards better than the touchscreen. The Eris was also nice, however neither of us had any clue how to actually operate the dang things, so they look nice and great, but we weren’t able to accomplish anything of value.

It turns out that Android 2.0 will be available on almost all Android phones, so getting two free Eris’s isn’t sounding like that bad of a deal. Waiting doesn’t sound like that bad of a deal. Buying a Droid doesn’t seem that bad anymore.

So what did I do? I put it up to Anna. She can’t decide if she wants a smartphone or not, but doesn’t want to miss the upgrade opportunity. She’s also very concerned about the touchscreen and gloves, since as you know, it’s always below freezing here in Colorado. Luckily there are stylish offering like these, or as Joe tells me, Marvie knows great gloves that will work with her iPhone.

I could get by with either, but I’d lean towards the Droid simply because it has more power. I could also stand to wait for the N1, or any other myriad of phones that will likely be released between today and “the spring”.