What is the benefit to one of these?
Also do they come in matte? I really hate smudges..
Profit for the manufacturer and marketeer.
Reduced brightness, clarity, and sensitivity, and increased weight (if glass) for you.
I.o.w. screen protectors are snake oil. Waste of money.
Solution: regularly wash your hands and clean your screen.
If there are smudges on your window or car wind screen you clean it too, don't you?
Protecting the screen for resale is a big part of why I like to use them. Getting a scratch isn't a big deal to me but it does effect the resale which half the phones I buy a year I resell them. The others I give friends and still even though their getting a free phone usually less the 6 months old I like them to be looking like their brand new ya know. So I figure if your gonna use a screen protector you might as get one that feels, looks just like the devices glass screen. My only OCD with phones is smudges, fingerprints which the glass ones are great for preventing. I feel like glass ones a clearer too but I'm sure there's some non glass ones that are just as clear but even the best ones I've tried still don't feel right, like glass.
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Someone stated they protect their phone for resale, if you are worried about resale, you shouldn't be wasting another $40 ona screen protector. You just lost $40 off your return
Never used a screen protector on any smartphone in 7 years. Never had any scratches on any screen! None!
Of course I handle my sensitive high-tech gadget as it needs to be handled: carefully! With a shock-absorbing soft-shell silicone bumper case so that the screen never touches, say, a table top when upside down. And I carry it in a pocket without coins, keys, or stuff like that which can scratch the screen.
A flip cover looks nice and protects well against screen scratches too. But having to take the phone out of my pocket and flipping it open before I can answer a ringing phone takes just too much time, whence I miss the call as it slips into voicemail mode. Very inconvenient. And time consuming. Expensive too, because you have to call voicemail to get the message and then you have to call back the caller.
And flip covers, being hard-shell, do not protect against bumps, drops, and falls! Shock-absorbing soft-shell silicone bumper cases do.
Have you gone without a screen protector? Sounds to me that you haven't. I currently don't have one and my one X didn't have one and have not scratched either phone.
I'm not worried about resale, I have a job. My wife and I use our old phone's for the kids and we also donate them to friends or to our friends kids. We both upgrade every 12months or so.
My wife is an iPhone fan and while she does use a screen protector, it is probably not needed but it makes her feel better about throwing it in her purse. The protector makes her feel more secure and I'm fine w that. is it needed, probably not
Do you honestly believe that since you've never personally scratched your screen, they don't scratch?
While you may not like them, it seems ludicrous to claim that glass displays on a phone will never scratch and don't need protection.
Can the glass scratch, yes.... Is it easy to scratch, no.. If you feel better with your screen protector, so be it but it is not needed.