Looking for the best glass to protect your iPhone 11? For this video, we went and broke products from Zagg, Belkin, BodgyGuardz, JETech, ESR, FLOLAB, $1 dollar screen protectors, Spigen and an un-named prototype. Here’s the power rankings for the Top 5 toughest screen protectors:
1. FLOLAB NanoArmour (updated for the iPhone 11)
2. Belkin InvisGlass Ultra (bought at the Apple Store)
3. BodyGuardz Pure 2 Edge
4. Zagg Glass Defender
5. Airo Defender
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Realistically, any double tempered screen protector could be in the #3-5 spots since there was very little difference in terms of drop protection.
In this video:
1. Testing Method - 00:01:13
2. Why I left out scratch protection - 00:01:37
2. Power Rankings - 00:3:51
3. Glass Screen Protector PSA - 00:07:52
4. Which screen protector should you get? - 00:09:06
5. Which cases will it fit with? - 00:09:31
For this video, I’m going to focus specifically on impact. The coating on every screen protector wears off after a while which means the device becomes prone to scratches. However, the strength of the glass does not change.
Now if you want to know the complete breakdown of a screen protector, check out my full on review here: • What's the BEST Screen...
To get these results, we broke all the screen protectors using a 200g steel ball dropped via electro-magnet onto a piece of Quartz. If the screen protector didn’t break, we’d increase the height and find a new spot on the screen protector to test. We did this until we ran out of the brand of screen protector (i.e. if we had three panes of glass, we broke three panes of glass)
At the bottom of the list is this screen protector that I paid one USD dollar for. It broke at 6cm’s which means it’s not even tempered glass. It’s just glass. Which makes since given that the packaging on the box wasn’t even printed. It was just a box. That smelled funny.
Next up was the product from ESR breaking at 33 cm followed by Jetech at 62cm. So between these two budget brands, JetTech was better from an impact protection perspective which means it uses better glass and or has a better tempering process. Within this tempered glass grouping, Rhinoshield had the best glass. Pitaka, whose MagCase Pro is #5 in my Top 10 list included only an average tempered glass screen protector with their product which sucks. And Spigen’s latest screen protectors with the EZ fit applicator tray, broke at the same level as the JETech product. Sad.
Now onto the higher quality products. In general, products in this category are made from Alumino Silicate which means they are doubled tempered. Most of these products broke between 81-93cm. On average, these products cost around $30 dollars. Included in this group was the Zagg Alumino Silicate, BodgyGuardz Pureview, Airo Collective and a bunch of OLD FLOLAB screen protectors I got from last year. I have to point out that I tested a several panes of Thin Fit 360 Glass from Spigen and they performed MUCH better than the new EZ Fit.
Now in the group of the WTF screen protectors included the Belkin InvisiGlass Ultra from the Apple Store which is made from Corning 2 glass. This screen protector broke at 103 cm’s which was crazy to do. Now as a side test, I decided to do the same drop test to my last Cinder screen protector which is one of the very few screen protectors that claims to have used Corning glass and it broke at 100cm.
Now the next screen protector I decided to test was another FLOLAB screen protector. FLOLAB had sent me a set of new screen protectors to use and said they were a little better. These new screen protectors broke at 107 cm’s. Which was surprising.
I shared with them the result and FLOLAB just casually said “O yea, we tweaked the manufacturing process a bit to make our products better”.
Now I do have to add that DESPITE being able to figure out what the toughest glass is, it’s still glass. The ball test against a solid piece of stone was the only way I could consistently test the strength of the glass.
ANY screen protector will still chip on a bad drop. Hybrid glass screen protectors will chip. Full plastic screen protectors will deform. The edges of a tempered glass screen protector are especially susceptible to chipping so keep that in mind. So treat the screen protectors as a consumable.
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5 окт 2024
