i would go with the Droid Incredible.
It truly is an iphone killer.
Verizon coverage is best in the states and the droid apps are open source so the choices are limitless.
The droid has live wallpaper which is really cool , 8M camera, and has 6GB of internal memory and a mini SD card slot for all those MP3's, I hate iTunes.
You can change batteries, you can't do that on an iphone.