I gave you another Thanks, as I've also had issues with Samsung in the past. One was a flip phone, and at the 2 year mark, the screen just plain died. Never flickered or started acting wierd, just one day the wife opened it to make a call, and nothing. The other was a $1200 30" HiDef tube TV. Worked great, but around the 2 year mark (out of warranty, of course), the main board died. Called a TV repair place, and they contacted Samsung, and they didn't support that TV anymore, and didn't have any parts for it. For a 2 year old TV. And a buddy of mine had a Samsung Blackjack II, and right at the, you guessed it, 2 year mark, the sellect button went out on him. Samsung has left a sour taste in my mouth.
As for the next new Android phone, not really sure what the rummors are, but there is ALWAYS a new phone around the corner. Motorola already announced that they were going to End Of Life the Droid X in March '11, so they much have something in the works. As I'm sure HTC also does. Probably as we get closer to the holiday season, we'll start hearing more rummors and then the next wave will be released. I haven't heard rummors of anything signifigant yet, though. The LTE phones won't be rolling out until next year, and I don't think we're expecting any of those fancy dual-core handsets before the end of the year either. Probably whatever comes out in the next 3 months will be more evolutionary than revolutionary, but the revolutionary stuff is probably only 6-9 months away, in my opinion. I'm really curious to see who will be the first OEM to use an Intel Atom CPU, the Sandy Bridge arcitecture has the low power needed for a mobile device (it was designed with smartphones in mind), but shoould overpower any ARM CPUs currenty out, especially in the graphics department. I'm guessing Nokia, since Intel is working with them on the MeeGo OS.