It's because the Galaxy S is a line of phones, same 1ghz Hummingbird processor, same Super AMOLED screen, same 512mb of RAM and are customized per the carrier requests in terms of outer case while maintaining the same insides, et al. And selling rather well as a line of phones in South Korea, Europe and North America.

So yeah... they'll invariably do the same thing, run the same OS, and look similarly to each other... that's part of being in that family called Galaxy S. If they were markedly different, then you'd have fragmentation like no other and Samsung would probably have a support nightmare on their hands.

To me... their approach makes sense.

Nothing else officially ran Maemo 5, no real companies outside of Sygic made any software for it... I'd call it a definite one-off.

I have to question this. Was it really made for the hacker/enthusiast, or for the Nokia enthusiast? If it's the former, then that group didn't exactly buy in huge numbers. And if it's the latter, then Nokia messed up by EOL this so quickly. Only the Microsoft KIN (which... deserved to die) went EOL faster. Hell, I complained about the N810 going EOL after 13 months... N900 beat that easily.

Reports are saying that they're built like tanks, apparently "nobody" is having problems with the USB port any more and they're such a quality built phone. Are you saying that not even a year later, you feel prompted to buy another? For instance... I have had my iPhone 3GS for a year - screen is still great, it still works without incident, still is in near perfect shape. In fact, when I moved to my Captivate - one of those aforementioned Galaxy S spin-offs - I still keep it around because it works so gosh darn well as a music player and/or communication device. And with my N900 on its way, I don't anticipate the need to buy multiple one(s) because... well, it's well-built.

So why buy two or more? Conflicts with the above paragraph on some level.