Now that we've got our hands on the Google Nexus One, we wouldn’t go as far as to call it a perfect Android handset – we’ve got a way to go on that front. It may improve on most of the Android phones that have gone before it, but does it go far enough?

The Google Nexus One is set to be the most popular Android phone of the first part of this year, but we’ve had a deep delve into its feature list in search of potholes and unpainted walls.

We’ve found a few too, and it’s a repair job that’ll end up costing Google a lot of research and development money in the long run – probably in the form of the Nexus Two.

We’ve excavated the bad and the ugly for all to see:

1. Rubbish internal memory - While non-Android rivals frequently offer 32GB of internal memory without touting it as one of their main features, the Google Nexus One gives you just 512MB to play with. Yes there's a 4GB microSD card bundled with the phone but these days, that's a waste of a microSD slot. Anything less than 16GB and you're doing the phone a disservice when they can be picked up for less than $25.
2. Limited camera - A bugbear of all Android phones to date, the Nexus One's camera is nowhere near the level of remotely camera-centric phones available. The five megapixels are fine, ish, but a small flash and lack of a proper lens protector on the phone's back mean the Nexus One's camera places behind two-year-old Nokia phones.
3. Sub-iPhone looks - It may arguably be the best-looking Android phone yet, but it still doesn't quite have the iconic style of the Apple iPhone, much as it pains us to bow down to the Apple altar. The touch-sensitive front buttons and bog-standard trackball give the Nexus One a look that isn't all its own.
4. No HDMI video out - HDMI outputs are a rarity on all kinds of mobile devices, but part of us hoped that the Nexus One would come packed with one, especially considering the increased dimensions created by its large screen. This feature would take the Nexus One up to the next level of media player functionality, letting you use your Nexus one as a real portable media centre, especially considering the video capabilities of the Snapdragon processor. Alas, it's been left off the Nexus One.
5. That pointless trackball - Using a trackball isn't a bad experience, but 2009 saw BlackBerry phones replace it with a touch sensitive panel - which worked amazingly well. A trackpad would have been able to be used as a more interesting aesthetically pleasing part of the phone's design too, to give the Nexus One more of a sleek, sophisticated look.
6. No front-facing camera - The lack of a front camera on the Nexus One means you won't be able to use it for video calling. It's not something we'll miss all that much, and it makes the phone look a little less cluttered than otherwise, but it's a style over substance choice that some of you might not appreciate.
7. No FM radio - Sure, you can use Pandora to stream music on the Nexus One, but why on earth wasn't an FM radio included. Oh wait, we already know - because the iPhone doesn't have one. Even ultra-budget phones often have FM radios on them, and they won't use up any data. Good old FM may be on the way out thanks to DAB, but it's not dead yet.
8. Average battery life - We obviously haven't had a chance to check out the battery life of the Nexus One for ourselves - it'll be a while before we get to subject it to the torturous review process - but the quoted figures aren't particularly impressive. Short battery life is still the bane of the modern smartphone, so it's a pity no ground has been made up with the Nexus One. That's the price of an 11mm body thickness.
9. No HD video recording - Just like the HDMI output, this one is still a rarity within phones, but that doesn't stop us hankering after it. Still, the 720x480 resolution you can record video at isn't too bad.
10. Vanilla OS - A case of stating the obvious, the Nexus One will feature a standard version of the Android OS. Sometimes, we prefer the vanilla version to any manufacturer-specific versions that have been tarted around with, but we did rather fall for HTC Sense when we saw it make its debut on the HTC Hero. Google may be able to put a shiny new version of the Android OS on its phones, but its more-or-less obliged not to do anything too fancy with it.