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When I received my brand new N800 from Circuit City, there were two stickers (labels) applied to the screen surface. One peeled off easily with no residue. However, the other label was firmly stuck on the surface and designed to come apart if you tried to remove it. I forget what it said. I had to scrape the remnants of the label off with my fingernail (leaving permanent scratches on the screen surface). Then I ended up using a product called Goo gone to carefully soften and remove the adhesive left behind from the scraping.

What insane idiot decided to apply and ship the N800 with a label obviously designed never to remove right on the screen? Did anyone else have a similar experience?
 
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It's not a screen protector. It's a shipping protector, meant to protect the n800 from scratches due to bumps during transport or shipping to stores.
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I think this absurd sticker was on the temporary plastic protection screen that comes with the unit. If that sticker could be remove easily, one could use that protection for some time...but now if you remove the sticker, you have to throw out the protective film.
 
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When I unboxed my N800, I was horrified trying to peel that 2nd sticker off, thinking it was stuck to the screen of the unit. They should include a slip on top of the contents of the box showing an illustration of removing the protective screen IMO.
 

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Just another one of the less-than-bright things nokia has done with these things.

That said, fortunately mine only came with one that was apparently to get the shipping protector off which came off like it was laying on the protector. Quality with a capital K and excellent documentation to boot.

Fortunately the shipping protector, which I am loathe to scrape off, seems to make a quite adequate screen protector. Somes ya wins and some ya loses :-).

Love this thing, but the experience sure has given me second....90th thoughts about anything else from these folks :-(.
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- have two... one came with two stickers (one leaving residue), while the other only had one sticker (with the silver foil tab) that peeled easily... this allowed me to use the protective shipping plastic as a temporary screen protector on at least one unit until i got to Wally World and bought a pair of PSP screen protectors... (which are working just fine now on both, thank you)

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Originally Posted by OSEmuTech View Post
They should include a slip on top of the contents of the box showing an illustration of removing the protective screen IMO.
Ummm... Hmmm... Reminds me of this:

http://gizmodo.com/351518/vista-box-...ctions-to-open

Does everything need instructions? Really?

Sorry, it's just that this sort of thing seemed pretty straight forward to me. Am I alone?

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Does everything need instructions?
Apparently, yes.
 

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Maybe we need to add more disclaimers, too:

-don't eat your tablet
-don't leave your tablet in the oven
-don't use your tablet as a shovel, hammer or prybar
-do not use your tablet in the jacuzzi
-do not use your tablet as part of protective riot gear



Seriously, as I've said before in already existing threads on this subject: this is not the catastrophe a few make it out to be. It's a shipping protector with a tab that occasionally fails. It IS explained in the instructions-- you know, the ones people apparently refuse to read.

Carry on. No crisis after all, folks.
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Maybe we need to add more disclaimers, too:

-don't eat your tablet
-don't leave your tablet in the oven
-don't use your tablet as a shovel, hammer or prybar
-do not use your tablet in the jacuzzi
-do not use your tablet as part of protective riot gear
Do not taunt Happy Fun Tablet.
 
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