I agree with your sentiment and comment about Droid having more features, although the necessity of the extra features is debatable.

I think though, that looking at the botched mess that's been the N900 launch, and indifference from T-mobile towards the N900 (not to mention their dribbling out details of "Project Dark"), I have cause to consider these two phone & carrier combinations to be in direct competition with each other.

We have two phones that aren't yet generally available. Nokia, on one hand, playing _down_ their product as something that is a precursor to the real thing, and Motorola on the other hand, fighting for survival and delivering a smaller time between rumor and actual product shots. T-Mobile, likely to have cheaper data plans, and Verizon with wider network coverage. Then we have the features on the phone themselves, with Moto throwing the kitchen sink into it, and Nokia making some weird choices.

Since the N900 saw daylight, the Droid is the first comparable device to come along.