The camera comparison I'd really like to see is up-close stuff. With my iPhone, I've often wanted to take a quick picture of a receipt to send somebody for reimbursement or something, but the iPhone's camera (at least in my 3G) cannot take a legible picture of a standard restaurant receipt. Given that the Android phones have support for reading QR codes and barcodes, I have to assume they've gotten this right, or at least significantly better than my iPhone.

As to high-ISO, color balance, and other things from this test, Bitt's right. Those are totally under software control, and it's quite often that consumer digital cameras (which do nothing other than take photos) get these things wrong. It's unsurprising that the Nexus One does no better.

Now, what would be really interesting would be hacking up a Nexus One uber-photo app that writes out DNG raw files. That's probably not even all that hard to do. Hmm....

UPDATE: but the performance looks pretty poor