Whargarble said:
I may have just gotten unlucky with my phone, but the touch detection is rather off.
I also know smartphones aren't stellar for battery life, but this one can barely hold on.
There should be a "calibrate my touchscreen" function somewhere in the settings (sorry I can't be more specific--I have an Android phone, but it's not a Droid). If you haven't tried it already, it might help.
As for the battery, how long have you had the phone? I had a G1 for a while, and after about a year it stopped being able to hold a charge for more than an hour or so. It turned out that the battery had gone bad, and visibly--when I took it out of the phone, it was bulging out on the top and bottom. You might just need a replacement battery.
As for the poll that started this thread, I've got an Android phone: a Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000. It's a nice phone, but some times I wish I'd gone for an HTC model instead.