Dude buy an N9, surely you could flog off one of your spare Samsung devices, you must atleast get a discount if not freebies?
I agree that Samsung have superior hardware when you're talking about multimedia devices, for your screens, cpu etc.
But reception wise, Samsung's not much better than Apple, and that say's a lot, ignoring antennae gate of course.
We're talking about smart phones where their primary function is making calls. Samsung has a bit to learn yet on that end.
Obviously you guy's haven't got the experience of say Nokia, Motorolla, Sony Ericcson etc so you'd expect as much.
Doesn't matter so much if you have full reception everywhere but if you go anywhere where the reception is even slightly limited, hold your Samsung up to a Nokia, and you will see the difference.
But good on ya for being open minded enough to give Maemo a go, hopefully you try out Meego too! I still miss my N900 dearly mind you.
Actually one thing that'll help on the N900, overclock that sucker, I used to sit around 1ghz with no issues, can't help the ram obviously but doesn't it say a lot about the superior Coding of OS's by Nokia to do so much with such nerfed HW in the first place?