Screen Protectors?

[Windroid]

What are your opinions and feelings on screen protectors, and do you use them?

 

[Dannydet]

Never used one.

 

[Hadron]

I don't use them myself. I rarely drop phones, and was only once unlucky enough for one to land in a way that caused a crack (almost invisible chip that developed over a few minutes into a crack, as hardened glass will do).

I did recommend them to one of my kids a few years back, when they were very much prone to dropping phones (they won't help with a shattering impact, but I figured a glass one might save the sort of chip->crack described above). Whether that helped I don't know, I think the cost of replacement screen protectors probably grew too high .

 

[olbriar]

I don't use a screen protector on my phone. I do use a screen protector on my watch. In my work, my watch sees a lot of unintentional abuse. I don't know that the screen protector actually saves the screen from scratches and nicks. I've always used them. They are quite cheap and super easy to install.

 

[Hadron]

My watches all have sapphire lenses, so in the absence of diamond tools the one thing I'm not worried about is scratching them .

"Gorilla glass", despite the marketing, is a different matter. The sort of quartz grit you find in everyday environments will scratch that just fine (I've scratched gorilla glass by just putting a phone face down on a conference room table).