All iPads Really need a screen protector??

[Nhwhazup]

I already got an iPhone 5 and iPad air replacement coming...
I review screen protectors from companies and post them in Amazon. I also get to practice putting them on many times. I like them going on perfectly as well.

So what are your favorites thus far?

For my iPhone 5, I've had the Bodyguardz Pure glass for over a year and love it. I dropped my phone on the tile floor and the edge of the Pure shattered but totally protected the screen. I was on their reduced price replacement program and quickly replaced it.

So far for the IPad Air I'm happy with the Tech Armor and have no complaints when I compare it with my previous Power Support.

 

[Zmanbaseball2]

So what are your favorites thus far?



For my iPhone 5, I've had the Bodyguardz Pure glass for over a year and love it. I dropped my phone on the tile floor and the edge of the Pure shattered but totally protected the screen. I was on their reduced price replacement program and quickly replaced it.



So far for the IPad Air I'm happy with the Tech Armor and have no complaints when I compare it with my previous Power Support.

Tech Armor! Duh.

 

[GoingDark]

I don't use screen protectors. I don't like that "tacky" feel most of them provide, and I find that if left on for a long period of time and then removed, they seem to take the oleophobic coating off with them, making the device way more of a fingerprint magnet.

 

[Zmanbaseball2]

I don't use screen protectors. I don't like that "tacky" feel most of them provide, and I find that if left on for a long period of time and then removed, they seem to take the oleophobic coating off with them, making the device way more of a fingerprint magnet.

I have never heard or thought of that a screen protector can take a oleo phobic coating off a screen. I find this not to be true. By tacky you mean sticky? I clean my screens with Tech Armors screen cleaning kit and it works well. The screen feel extremely smooth.

 

[Nhwhazup]

I don't use screen protectors. I don't like that "tacky" feel most of them provide, and I find that if left on for a long period of time and then removed, they seem to take the oleophobic coating off with them, making the device way more of a fingerprint magnet.

I've never noticed this but then again, I usually keep protectors on my devices until I get ready to trade them in.

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Tech Armor! Duh.

Hey Goober - yeah I can tell you like Tech Armor, but have you tried the others like Power Support, Bodyguardz, Spigen, etc. to compare?

I'm happy with Tech Armor and would compare to a Power Support with them both being similar. Of course the lifetime replacements and much lower cost also makes me like the Tech Armor.

 

[GoingDark]

I have never heard or thought of that a screen protector can take a oleo phobic coating off a screen. I find this not to be true. By tacky you mean sticky? I clean my screens with Tech Armors screen cleaning kit and it works well. The screen feel extremely smooth.

By "tacky" I don't mean sticky necessarily, I mean more "grippy" and less smooth than the actual glass. It's hard to describe.

As for the coating, two friends of mine had two different brands of screen protectors on their iPhones (one was some sort of privacy shield, the other was a Zagg InvisibleShield), and after taking them off a year later, both of the screens instantly attracted WAY more fingerprints and dirt than mine did, with no screen protector. All three of us had the iPhone 4 at the time.

Maybe not all screen protectors are like that but the few I've had experience with certainly were.

 

[susa]

Get a Smart Cover and forget about the screen protectors.

But careful always to not get any grit on the inside of the cover when it is open. It can slide around to make a scratch. Babied my mini all last year, but that happened.