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Reddit_refugee7834@lemmy.today 11 months agoThanks for the input, you have a lot of helpful points! I encourage others to do there own research as I have done. In my research I find that liquid “screen protectors” increase the force required to crack the screen, and have add no functional scratch resistance, hence why I recommend the screen protector on top, glass is the way to go, as it will crack hopefully absorbing the force of impact and you can replace it instead on you display :)
Here’s what I found in my research about screen protectors
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIPOTDUnUfo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhUrevQKFbo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knv5_zc8ghA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S00WsL6cnvw
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
You first video is a guy checking one single screen protector on an uneven rubber mat dropping a ball on it and not dropping the ball in the same exact place on the screen protector as the first two. The next two videos have some morons hitting a couple phones with hammers, and in the last video, aside from much of what linus does not being all that well thought out, he never does an impact test.
The three videos you found are very cherry picked and also poorly done, among dozens of others proving the coatings make no difference whatsoever in break resistance.
Also, aside from all the videos showing they don’t make your screen stronger, use your danged head. The digitizer (top) layer of your phone screen is around 0.6mm thick. Do you seriously think that a 0.005mm layer of anything at all is going to make your screen stronger? Not possible in the least. And if it were possible, dozens of companies have been making making that junk for the past decade. If it did anything, don’t you think Corning would have already been using it on their gorilla glass already? Use your head, man. All that junk can do is make your screen temporarily feel a bit smoother and make it oliophobic again for a few weeks. Putting it on under a screen protector would do nothing at all except make the screen protector not stick as well.
Reddit_refugee7834@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Thanks for checking my sources! I think you made fair points, and the sample size in the one test that seemed reference-able was too small, so I’ll edit my post to suggest using a glass screen protector.