Oh dear oh dear. I had reservations all along with this phone. I have to admit I thought at one point, when specs were at the rumour stage, that it was going to tick all of the boxes the iPhone4S failed to tick. Then as we learned of the somewhat disappointing specs, excitement started to dwindle.

In a terribly unfortunate piece of PR, one of the first customers of this phone – Alex Loannou, was given a developer model by mistake unable to carry out basic functions. Alex promptly asked for a refund which was highly embarrassing for Samsung and Google. (For the record in the end he was given a perfect replacement) Apple must have enjoyed a good laugh at this (not that they’ve always had such brilliant launches themselves).

We now learn of software and hardware woes. Firstly, a more minor problem that the handset randomly changes volume - pretty shoddy to be honest for a flagship Android handset but excusable. This is something, I would imagine, which will be easily ironed out.

However, we now learn that the Galaxy Nexus is somewhat flawed in terms of its hardware. It’s not a major schoolboy error, more an inconvenience for some, namely that it cannot (and never will be able to) accept USB storage. What does this mean in real world speak? It means that you can’t plug a USB pen or disk drive into the phone and play it directly. For example, on some phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S2 you can watch a film on a USB stick so long as you have the right USB connector and the right software. Another example would be not being able to view some photos on a USB hard disk drive. In reality, not a major flaw, more a bummer for the geek circles – you know, the crowd who’ll be buying this device! (I’m feeling rather smug with my Samsung Galaxy Note about to arrive which does not suffer from this, but as the Note was made by the same manufacturer this is a bit worrying).

So what next in the Galaxy Nexus saga. It spontaneously combusts?