First one showing phone working flawless with every single piece of other software today is the winner.

I cannot see that winner anywhere ! Because it just doesn't exists.
(not even on iphone, I know that from my collegues)

Every piece of software has it's life cycle; from birth to yourth, then to adulthood and finally to midde age, where most of things work to retirement, when everything again starts to falling apart.

Enjoy what you have; it is still one of most usable professional mobile devises on market, and let hype on global markets go by.

Hypes comes and goes, only good devices last.
For me this piece of HW will last long as it has everything I need/wish (VPN, ssh client, KB to use that shell, and I can even talk with it ! (including non-work calls via skype for free) also including working calendar and email ... Thus no need open laptop for every support call I get).