OK -- to summarize my status -- I have the blue Pocket Pro. It does not have the level of surface cracking and peeling or wrinkling that others have described or shown. It does, however, have something going on with the paint.
Best way to describe it is to refer you to the photos of Anemic Oak's maroon PEZ in this thread. You can see the streaky swaths that look like a different tone of red -- just imagine that in blue and not as pronounced.
In addition, I'd previously mentioned a sort of alligator-skin effect pebbling the surface of the PEZ in certain areas. You can see a little bit of that in Anemic Oak's picture, near the battery below the "CE" mark on the battery. It seems obvious to me now that this is a transferred impression left in the cover by the interior of the PEZ's case, which has exactly that surface. Last night I had rubbed my finger across the pebbled effect on my Pez, which left it smudgy but not pebbled. This morning when I took the Pez out of it's clips again, the pebbled marks were back -- and most strongly so where the pressure from the magnetic clasp and the plastic clips would be felt most.
So long as the pebbling effect doesn't actually become cracking or peeling, it is -- for me -- just a minor cosmetic thing.
I will, however, raise an issue that has started to worry me. Other owners have commented on how the plastic clips hold the Pez pretty securely and how it can be a bit tricky to finesse out. You might not be able to tell, but the two clips on the sides push into little slots indented in the PEZ. Since you have to take the PEZ out of the clips to hit the reset button on the back, some amount of in-and-out is unavoidable even if you intend to keep it clipped in most of the time. I can see a *very* tiny nick in one of the PEZ's tab indents where the harder plastic of the clip has dinged the softer surface of the PEZ as it torques in/out. That wouldn't bother me if the surface was all solid plastic. But since the surface is a single rubberized paint-skin, I'm worried that once the skin is nicked or torn in one spot, the damage will simply spread rapidly.
