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if you're into the automotive scene at all you may have heard of these

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newfangled ceramic coatings these seemingly

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magical paint protectants that are claimed by some to make it so that you

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never have to wash your car again and so

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that water beads right off you'll also see these coatings advertised as having

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9h hardness which makes it sound like they would make whatever you apply them

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to a lot more scratch resistant now my

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first assumption was that this has to be just snake oil but

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what the it's ridiculous but after doing some research

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there appears to be some truth to it after this magic coating is applied and

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given time to cure it creates a semi-permanent layer that is bonded to

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the top of the paint that fills in any pores making the surface very smooth

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with the pores filled in there's way less surface area for dirt and water to

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cling to and as a result the dirt and the water just fall or beat off now it

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might not make it so you never have to wash your car again but it will at least

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help it stay clean longer which is all fine and good but this is a tech channel

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not a car channel so we wanted to see if you can take this

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protectant which is typically used for cars and use it to protect your

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smartphone from small scratches fingerprints and

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well not water it's still got holes in it where the water can get in but but at

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least those other things and this video is brought to you guys by

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48 driver bits check it out at the link in the video description we bought this

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kit online and theoretically it has everything that we need to apply it

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ourselves so on a car what you would normally do is a complete paint

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correction to remove any dirt and contamination that was already present

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in the car's paint so that the coating would properly adhere and not lock any

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dirt underneath it for us

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that can basically be achieved by wiping

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down a phone with a microfiber cloth and

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some alcohol should get some alcohol where's the alcohol

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okay that's better just so you guys know we're using a xiaomi mi 8 just because

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we happen to have one lying around it does not have an integrated screen

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protector but it does use corning gorilla glass 5 so this should be pretty

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representative of the type of glass that you've got on your device if you have

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something reasonably modern wow that's a lot of stuff so you've got

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a little microfiber cloth you got more like a chamois type thing

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so you apparently go like this and you

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clean your little just clean do your little cleaning thing

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look it's a phone it's smooth already it should be fine

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i'm gonna put the gloves on okay

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yep i'm swimming in it this is the applicator cloth oh well why am i using

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that to clean it dang it Jake all right i will follow the instructions

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wow how to apply optimal method wash clay

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bar polish ipa wipe simple method wash

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ipa wipe okay well we cut that down before we put it on i want to talk about

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our methodology my goal is to only destroy one phone in this process so

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what i'm going to be doing is applying the ceramic coating to half of the

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screen and half of the bag

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then i'm going to leave it to cure for 24 hours and come back at it with

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ah yes jerry rig everything fans rejoice

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we finally got one of these moe's hardness test kits so that we too can

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talk about scratches at level six with deeper grooves at a level seven

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you guys know the drill so basically the way most scale of

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hardness works is the harder materials so the ones with higher numbers should

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scratch the softer materials so the ones with lower numbers and the softer ones

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should not scratch the harder ones so they've got all these different picks in

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here and then they've actually got this handy dandy little scale that shows

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which materials my picks should be able to scratch and which ones they shouldn't

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diamond comes in at a hardness of 10 so that is the maximum according to mohs

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hardness scale and if the specs on this

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ceramic coating are to be believed it would be nearly as tough as diamond that

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would be very impressive given that gorilla glass 3 is estimated to be

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somewhere in the five and a half to six and a half range

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i remember we got this test when i was in uh probably grade five or six and the

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first question on the exam was read through the entire exam before you begin

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and then it was just a normal exam and then the last question was good job you

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read through the entire exam before you started do not fill out any of the other

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questions just turn it in blank and it was like a test on following

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instructions did you do that i did actually turns out i can do it i just

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don't okay wipe a thin layer across the car

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surface dang it i should have read the whole instructions before i started

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all right uh okay

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okay stuff stinks

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i don't know how to get around the camera bump why did we accept this as consumers let

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the coating sit then remove the residue by lightly buffing with a microfiber

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towel yeah i can definitely see the excess coming up

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i wonder how this differs from the nano coating screen protector that we dragged

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behind my motorbike a number of years ago that stuff worked really well though

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i was very impressed so maybe i'll be impressed tomorrow

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yeah of course the uh the sales materials are different from the

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manual the longer it stays dry the better as it will continue to cure allow

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at least 48 hours for initial drying and avoid water rain or snow on the car we

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don't recommend that you wash or expose the car to water for four to seven days afterwards like there's kind of a line

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there but i also i'm trying not to buff over the line because i don't want to

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carry material onto the part that i want to use as my control so hard to tell

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okay i knew this would come in handy for something someday there so i'm just

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putting that there so that it doesn't accidentally touch anything while it's drying

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having waited the requisite day i am now ready to tinker with this

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so let's see if it behaves any differently on the regular glass versus

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the coated glass just want a few drops here

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you know what more drops ah let's spread these drops out of it

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should be fine okay so what i want to see is if they're

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any more beaded on the coated part versus on the non-coated part

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bear in mind of course guys that most smartphones have oleophobic coatings on

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them already so i'm not really expecting a difference here very interesting so

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while they seem to be behaving similarly

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when it actually comes time to pour it off

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it does pour off more easily

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let's see if we make the same observation on the back

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now the back is quite curved so

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again very similar looking behavior this is the coated side

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but it's time to tip it oh interesting

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it actually came off less easily

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now i'm going to use my greasy fingerprints to

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grease up the phone

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i don't notice any appreciable difference in readability

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wait is this thing dead oh damn it

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i can't say i notice any appreciable difference in image clarity with the

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screen on but a lot of the time what separates the good from the bad when it

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comes to screen coatings is how easy it is to wipe off grease so we'll try to

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wipe that side take could clean part of the cloth try to wipe that side

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wow that's really similar okay let's try uh let's try my microfiber i'll wipe a

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little bit harder this time okay that came pretty clean

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that also came pretty clean i wouldn't say that there's a huge difference here

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all right let's try and create a bit more of a controlled test here then so

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let's put

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four fingerprints

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four fingerprints okay then what i'm gonna do

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is i'm basically gonna go wipe okay so a little bit remains

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i'm gonna go wipe quite a lot of remains

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wipe it's gone

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interesting i'd say it's about three wipes to six to eight on the non-coded

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side very cool all right let's pull something similar

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on the back here then four

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five oh boy six

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seven doesn't seem to be helping that much here eight

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ten 11 12. i would say that is quite a similar

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result let's bring out the picks now then shall we

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start with the back i need a different kind of marker but i can read it well

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enough that it's usable no scratch whatsoever from the five pick here i'm

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expecting there's no way it's gonna hold up to this

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yep paint scratches can you see them

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can you see them now you can see them no i can't that's worse oh

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uh maybe there should be three lines here

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can you see them i don't see them that's hard to see okay well let's not

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worry about it then and then pick seven scratches very easily

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okay i mean i don't know what do we go for overkill at this point yeah

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okay yeah well if seven scratches eight obviously will

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now for the ceramic coated side four five six seven

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here we go so the reason i'm retesting four

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is that i want to make sure that the ceramic coating itself won't show surface scratches or imperfections

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and so far it doesn't six

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this is where the ceramic coating could separate itself

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interesting time for number seven

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and the behavior is basically identical

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and seven

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that seems better than seven on the other side we're gonna turn this up to

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eight

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yep that's definitely more noticeable but it still is better behaved when it's

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being scratched not splintering apart like the other side did

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time for ceramic coated

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and that looks basically identical to the other one

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and this is basically the same thing

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oh god ow i just got stabbed with the pick it was the apic

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well i'm disappointed i was basically expecting this stuff to turn my glass

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into like a diamond scratched barrier

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is what i would say if i wasn't aware

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that this 9h hardness is actually using a

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completely different scale from mohs

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scale so it's actually using the same hardness scale that pencils use so this

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is a 9h pencil which is somewhere in the range

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of around a three on mohs scale now what i did notice

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though is that even though the ceramic coating isn't particularly

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hard when i was using a three or four or even five pick i didn't notice any weird

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residue building up where the coating was scratching off leaving the exposed

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glass underneath it so it seems to be just like a

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spectacularly thin coating on the glass it's also

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definitely different from the liquid armor that i tested dragging behind my

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motorcycle all those years ago because that once you got under it you could

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kind of scrape up and it created this kind of crusty layer over top but this

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i can't i can't even get off even if i wanted to try to scratch it off with my

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fingernail there are a couple more things i wanted to evaluate so i just wanted to make sure that touchscreen

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responsiveness is still fine with the ceramic coating it doesn't surprise me

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to note that yes in fact it is indiscernible and there is one more

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thing i wanted to try ow

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oh i just stabbed myself with a pin removal tool so i'm going to take a couple keys that are made of different

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materials i'm just going to kind of like try to scuff and scratch the bottom of

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the screen here materials both these keys seem soft enough this is not making any difference

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at all so then with no improvement to scratch resistance the only selling

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point for our phone is the ever so slight improvement to liquid beading and

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repelling characteristics of in our case the front glass and the slight

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improvement that we noted in cleanability although

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yeah particularly that last one i guess there's something to be said for that

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especially because it's not particularly expensive this is like

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