This is pretty much to be expected, after Apple got their smoking guns into evidence (internal Samsung memos/e-mails and Google's e-mails to Samsung). Samsung knew it too, as they spent the last days of the trial trying to minimize damages. Whatever Apple was asking for in settlement, it must have been really insane for Samsung to turn it down and have to go in knowing they'd get an unfavorable verdict.
Apple wanted $30 per phone and $40 to "license". Samsung sold 50 million smartphones last quarter, at $30 a phone that's $1.5 Billions in licensing fees just for a quarter. It would be insane for Samsung or any company to accept that kind of licensing deal.
The verdict wasn't to surprising, not so much because of the evidence but more so because of the Judge imo. Even before the trial you knew Judge Koh already had her mind made up. And some things in the trial like not allowing Samsung to introduce prior art, etc. is a subtle even subconscious hint to the jurors which way to decide. Not to mention the case was literally in Apple Headquarters (within 10 miles).
What's more interesting is while the Jury in the US found Samsung phones to infringe on Apple patents, the Galaxy Tab got away with no infringement. This is complete opposite of the rest of the world (UK, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, Australia) where the only products that were found to infringe was the tablets (in Germany, Netherlands, originally in Australia) and not the phones. More proof the US must be smarter then the rest of the world
Lastly if the smoking gun was emails then when the iPad mini comes out Samsung should sue Apple since there was emails from Apple designer who picked up a 7" tablet from a competitor because the 10" iPad was to big to be portable and that Apple needed to make a smaller iPad. Finally if a Galaxy S with a 4" (1.67 aspect ratio) is a copy of an iPhone with a 3.5" (1.5 aspect ratio) that would mean when the iPhone 5 with a 4" (1.76 aspect ratio) copied the Galaxy S? The jury has already decided that the Galaxy S copied the iPhone 3GS but imo Samsung saw what people wanted and put out an iPhone 5 three years before Apple (4" screen, drop down notification, etc).