>> >> and Samsung couldn't even make the device decent.

>> That's your personal opinion, not the marketplace's opinion. Samsung smartphones are actually quite successful (they currently outsell the iPhone by a factor of ~2x according to latest financial results http://www.osnews.com/story/26228).

Selling well doesn't make any device decent, it only makes it popular.

Getting decent reviews (which Samsung's current phones do get) supports the notion that the Samsung phones are decent.