No-one plans to scratch their device. Despite my best efforts to protect my shiny new N900, the front facia now looks worse after a month than my old N95 did after two years of hard use. All this happened in under a second when the headphone cable snagged on something coming out of a shop, dragged the n900 out of its nice soft pocket and sent it skidding across a concrete floor, face down.

This sickeningly left the metal suround scratched back to bare metal and the screen with two deep scratches. Now I'm looking for a screen protector to stop the stylus catching in the scratches when scrolling. If I can get a case that hides the scratched facia as well, all the better.

My advice is get a protector. It's too late after the accident happens and "Sissy" be damned.