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Uh oh, looks like Apple’s engineers made a boo-boo with the iPod nano’s screen. It seems like this piece of tech wear isn’t “wear and tear.” Small, flat products with a screen that takes up a considerable amount of real estate are really prone to getting damaged.
Which is what happened to my iPAQ 4350 one fateful afternoon. I sat on it and the screen went dead. So did my digital lifestyle. But that story is for another time.
That’s basically another reason to stick to screen-less displays. Hehe.
Register reader Matt Baker says “the plastic on the front panel scratches insanely easily”, and comments that that hardly makes sense, “especially for a device that’s sold in a large amount based on its appearance, and that launched at least a month before any cases for it will be available. Mine has lived either on a work surface, in a shirt pocket on its own, or (as demonstrated by Steve Jobs to be a suitable place when he launched it) in the change pocket of my jeans, again on its own.”
The Register reports nano screen trauma
The Apple forums are clamoring for a solution!
UPDATE: Colbert from The Gadget Blog recommends this solution called the invisibleSHIELD protector for the nano.
Yes, my ipod nano scratched about 1 week after I received it as a gift, all I did was put it in my overnight bag with some clothes and it returned home scratched, I wish someone had warned me, and I wouldn’t have tried to prevent this :( Any suggestion for getting the scratches out, or trying to return it with the warranty? Thanks-Jen
2314 days ago
[...] Their have been complaints about the Ipod Nano having scratches. Just to let anyone know that If your scared of scratches in any way, use the Ipod Nano InvisibleSHIELD. [...]
2314 days ago
[...] After several complaints of cracked screens and easily-scratched surfaces, Apple has now admitted that a number of iPOD Nanos are indeed flawed. In addressing the broken screens, the first of the two issues, Apple said that they have tracked down the problem. “This is a real but minor issue involving a vendor quality problem in a small number of units,” Schiller told MacCentral. “In fact, this issue has affected less than 1/10 of 1 percent of the total iPod nano units that we’ve shipped. It is not a design issue.” [...]
hey thats neat. it actually reminds me of the plastic film packaging the old iPods came with, but more loose.
why not grab the invisible shield
http://www.theinvisibleshield.com/ipod_nano_screen_protector.html