i have a milestone and i do find the keyboard stays closed most of the time even though I am only interested in phones with a hardware keyboard if it's not an iphone. Get the desire, or WAIT for the galaxy s- better screen than desire in outdoors and better than the desire in every way.

 

I use my Desire for business e-mails, sync it directly to my e-mails and calendar (not contacts because it decided to add those into my phonebook, don't want to be calling a client by mistake).

I find it excellent for work e-mails, really simple to use, got my signature set up just as it is on my computer, logo as well.

I don't use my phone as a business phone as such but I like it for e-mails, not sure what else you'd use it for for business use?

 

Milestone has less RAM and less CPU which to my understanding makes it an inferior device. Even Desire could do with a faster CPU and more ram.

Milestone ha sslightly larger screen (in terms of resolution), however you probably won't notice that.

And the physical QWERTY keyboard is hardly an advantage these days. If you've tried Swype you'll understand that the only use of hardware keyboard is extra weight and size on your phone.

 

What about for simple web browsing and some social networking..im looking at the droid mainly because of the style and price..hard decision

 

My girlfriend has the milestone as she wanted the keyboard and i have the Desire and the Desire is far superior in my opinion, its faster to do anything and has a lot more memory for running apps. Her Milestone seems to idle with around 60mb free with nothing running compared to over 200mb on the Desire.

From what you say you want it for then it has to be the Desire

 

I have just moved from the Milestone to the Desire. I posted some thoughts on the differences here:

HTC Desire vs. Motorola Milestone

I hope that helps!