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I swear, most fucked up screens I see are actually temperate glass screen protectors. The cracked protector is proof to them the protector works. I take it as proof a thin piece of glass barely adhered to a flexible chassis is way more prone to failure than the actual screen. I had film protectors until I my pixel 3a. Surprise, screen glass is hard as… Glass.

I cannot fathom why my coworker continually replaces the soft protector on his Samsung flip due to failure at the hinge. . The folding phone. The one that only ever goes in his phone folded.

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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Surprise, screen glass is hard as… Glass.

In some cases, even harder! Gorilla Glass has a variety of material strengths over glass in hardness, but at the cost of being (slightly) less scratch resistant.

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- XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Interesting. I did get some very mild scratches from keys on my pixel 7 early on. I didn’t think harder glass would come with less scratch resistance. Sure you don’t mean greater tensile strength?
  
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  - Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Maybe? They’re less prone to shattering.
    
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dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The flip and the fold come with a screen protector from the factory. It’s integral to the phone as the screen is flexible and soft, without it the screen would get opaque and dull. People forget that the point of cases and screen protectors is to be like rubber tires. They’re there to take weather (not damage) instead of the phone, and to be easily replaced on the regular. Samsung offers a replacement service for the flip that changes protectors regularly with the phone protection program.

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- XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You know… I didn’t think about then. Consider the topic fathomed. Thank you
  
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  - dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah, like, there’s even a little leaflet that is the first thing you see when you open the box that just says “Don’t remove the screen protector. If it gets damaged, don’t replace it yourself, send it in for a free replacement.” Or some wording of that kind.
    
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