HTC, Lenovo & Asus (and a few others )have put out phones that are truly worthy of Android's brilliance.
Samsung, Moto, etc.. are trying to resurrect their mobile device divisions by TRYING to emulate HTC's formula of quality devices. These manufacturers made the right choice by dumping Symbian just in time (unlike my finnish mistress Nokia) by they aren't in the business for high end devices. If you look at the pricing tiers of Moto & Samsung devices you will see how quickly the price drops 1 month after official release to carriers. This applies to HTC but only because they actually release consistently good devices while Moto and Samsung are in the business of creating entry-level bare-boned smart phones. Just to address the market share of people who want a smart phone but can't afford nor know what to do with one. So they build a cheap entry level model to appease that demographic. Now I'm not saying that the SGS2 is an entry-level phone- it is Samsung's tertiary attempt at the high end smart phone market which is dominated by HTC, RIM and Apple.
They need to stick to the kids table and let the adults do their thing at the grown folks table.