Well, life is about trade offs, like anything else. I get where you're coming from about feel in hand and such, but the Ativ S has good build and feel in hand to it as well. If you ever pop into a AT&T or Sprint store and feel the Neo, the OG Ativ S has a similar feel, albeit a little bit better.
Here Maps and Here Transit are available for all WP8 phones. I have them on my 8X and they work just as well as on the 920. Remember, Nokia's mapping day underlies all WP8 devices, so once you have it installed, you get City Lens etc folded into the Here Maps app. Samsung has the better video editor, and of course, since it is an unlocked model you will get MMS to work. The WiFi trick is something that if you really need the rest of the Nokia exclusive apps, which for the record are just regular apps Nokia got first, you can get them doing that.
The argument is still the same for me: anything not named Nokia 1020, 1520, or 92x is inferior to the Ativ S from a hardware point of view. Based on value for,money, the best two phones from WP8 you can get for under $270 are the Ativ S and 8X. Personally, I'd trade supposedly slightly better looks for more storage space and slightly faster access to updates. At the end of the day, 8GB internal is still 8GB internal. But, everyone has different types of needs...
but I hate how their phones feel and how they look:/ and for the nokia apps I actually use them all when im out and about I like using the maps and when I need to catch the bus I have here transit and when I want to eat something in a new city or eve in a city I know I like to know what I have around my area 
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