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(More customer reviews)The glass surface of the iPhone is much sturdier and scratch resistant than the plastic surface of its iPod cousins. iPods typically scratch when you look at them funny. iPhones get scuffed on the metal rim, but so far, nothing but praise is heard for the touch-screen surface on the iPhone's glass. Still, I wasn't willing to tempt fate and bought this Crystal Screen Protector for my phone.
As a photographer, I might have a $20 filter I don't really need affixed to my lens - because if I drop the camera, I break a $20 filter and not my $800 lens!
The logic was the same when I decided to get this film protector. It's very thin and when the iPhone is on, you can see crystal clear - everything is as beautiful as w/o it on there... but the plastic surface does get scratches on it, fingerprints and scuffs. My logic is that if (God forbid!) I drop the iPhone, the plastic film might crack or split, absorbing some of the impact instead of it transferring directly to the glass. I can always replace the film, but if I break my iPhone, there will be much weeping and gnashing of teeth!
The plastic film looks good, but doesn't feel as sexy cool as the glass itself - still, I'm happy to have at the very least a placebo effect of protection.
The less than perfect rating is for the less than perfect alignment on the die-cut holes on the film - I had to fiddle with this thing for 15 minutes to get it on the iPhone just right. In all fairness, I am anal-retentive when it comes to electronics - I want everything to look perfect and I even use a ruler when putting in my window sticker for my car's registration, scraping the previous one off w/ a razor blade and cleaning it meticulously before affixing the new one... but on a phone that costs $600, you don't want a $13 item making your iPhone look like a Kia or a silly plastic toy, either.
A bit of advice in application: a lot of people don't realize that the iPhone box has a little envelope buried in there w/ a cleaning cloth. Use that cloth to clean the wazoo out of the phone's surface before affixing this film, and only hold the film by the edges. If you inadvertently get finger grease, dog hair, lint, etc. on the sticky surface then affix it to the iPhone, the edge is more likely to peel up after time.
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