Motorola Droid VS HTC Eris?

[Colin]

About a week ago I got the Motorola Droid (Verizon,ported from the Globe) All in all, I was pretty happy with the Droid with a few exceptions. Namely, I found the hardware keyboard to be awkward and was irritated at the placement of the directional pad which takes up valuable real estate on an already small keyboard. I also disliked the spongy feel the keys gave. I very quickly realized that although it might make some people happy, I would likely never use the physical keyboard. So I decided to look more closely at the HTC Eris as it is much slimmer and about 33% lighter as well. I ended up trading my Motorola Droid in today (why they named a piece of hardware after an operating system seems silly to me, it's like naming a computer Windows, but I suppose that's going off on a tangent...) for the HTC Eris. After playing with it more closely I am finding that it appears to be operating MUCH more slowly than the Droid, almost painful at times. There is a very noticable lag when opening applications, even when clicking the "send" for a SMS text message seems to take an unusual amount of time for the process to complete. My question is this: I know the HTC Eris has the 1.5 operating system for Andriod versus the Moto's Driod 2.0 OS...does this have anything to do with it or should I expect the same once 2.0 is available for the HTC Eris. I know it sounds crazy but I'm thinking that I might go back to the Moto Droid if the speed issue is just due to the hardware. After comparing the tech specs tab on both Moto and HTC.com the Moto says it is a Arm® Cortex™ A8 processor 550 mHz Versus HTC's Qualcomm® MSM7600™, 528MHz which does not seem like a big difference to me at all...based on that the Droid should be maybe 5% faster, but I'm experiencing a MUCH more extreme speed shock between the two. Please help to shed some light on this for me. Also I was disseminated to learn that the Eris does not have Turn By Turn Navigation apparently due to Motorola having the stranglehold on that technology for Android, at least according to the guy at Best Buy. Is the new 2.0 OS really going to provide turn by turn spoken directions? And either way is there any 3rd party app that would support it now? Thank you in advance!!!