if we're wishlisting:
Decent, nice lenses .. good glass units, and a decent Sensor or FullHD (who needs 5 Megapixels or more in a FullHD DVR? If anything, too many pixels on those tiny sensors are going to influence each other electrically, no?), off a povider, which has a working QC department. Broken software is one thing, but russian roulette on the hardware parts is just downright nasty ... it's one of these things that annoy me in the chinese market. You have 10 people buying the same thing, and they all complain about something else being broken. QC in china seems somewhat nonexistant.
And what of things like the HDS001 being "aluminium cased"... I somehow doubt that. But I have to admit, a decent black case would be nice ... some of these cams looks so extremely cheap and have haptics, that make you cry .. feels so utterly cheap. Sure, we're not shelling out big $$$ for them, but it seems some manage to do something more decent than those supercheap plastic things of most gs1000s. I really like it if a bit of design effort has been put it. The HDW001 is not bad, also the orange color bits on an F90G etc .. it has to remain black and unobtrusive, though, no shiny metal chrome parts.
I realize these things aren't easily to provide on 60-90 USD cams ... but should be doable in the 140 USD range, no?