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(More customer reviews)I was a huge fan of the InvisibleSHIELD for iPhone 3 series phones. When properly applied, they were awesome: crystal clear, completely stationary (no sliding, no peeling, no emerging bubbles), and shock resistant.
The iPhone 4 era InvisibleSHIELD, however, suffers from a serious manufacturing defect: roller lines. The machine rollers in their manufacturing process are leaving perfectly straight vertical lines on InvisibleSHIELDs coming off the line these days. You won't notice it at first; it will only become apparent once the shield has had 24 hours to dry and the bubbles have all disappeared.
You will then find perfectly straight, well-defined "rainbow lines" on the shield that refract light, particularly when your phone is showing a white screen. By holding the phone and shield up to light and turning them back and forth to see the protected screen at different angles, you will notice that there is a line running the length of the shield from rollers during manufacturing.
I have always applied InvisibleSHIELD protectors for family and friends and can do a perfect job each time and every time. This is not installation error; you can hold a ruler against the lines and see that they are perfectly straight and of precise width.
Of the six iPhone 4 protectors I've installed from Zagg, FOUR have had "rainbow lines" in them, one of them with TWO perfectly straight parallel "rainbow lines" running the length of the screen about a centimeter apart. (Search Google for the term "rainbow lines"; it's a well-known problem.) Zagg won't honor their lifetime warranty for affected protectors, instead saying it's a normal artifact of their manufacturing process (while some other reps will just tell you you've done a lousy job installing the protector).
So now it's "normal" for Zagg InvisibleSHIELD users to have prominent lines that look like screen defects running vertically across the screens of their iPhones. So much for "invisible."
In fact, they're extremely distracting and I'm currently looking for a similar wet-applied, soft-protector alternative that has better quality control.
Until Zagg acknowledges and fixes this quality control problem, I can't recommend dropping $20 on a product that will leave you wishing you could still read your pristine iPhone screen. It's a shame, because during the iPhone 3/3GS years this was the ULTIMATE in iPhone screen protection.
No longer.
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