Phantom Glass Screen Protector
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,219 words · ~6 min read
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I don't often review screen protectors why you might ask well it's because most
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of them are complete garbage they're not very clear they are difficult to apply
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they make the screen feel weird and then finally they come off it's a terrible
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user experience and I don't use them personally in fact I've only done a
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screen protector review Once when I did a real world test of a product called
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liquid armor which I continue to use to this day by dragging a protected phone
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and a dummy control phone down the Street behind my motorcycle this time
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unfortunately I don't have anything so extreme planned but what I do have is a
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really impressive screen covering product from a basically unheard of
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Canadian company it's called Phantom Phantom Hourglass it's called
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Phantom glass and it's the first product since liquid armor that has really
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gotten my attention and made me think about
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switching the flash Voyager GTX usb3
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drive from Corsair provides SSD like performance and fits comfortably in your
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pocket click now to learn more all right so what is it well in a nutshell uh you
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know that super cool scratch resistant Corning Gorilla Glass that you've got on
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your phone in all likelihood well it's a screen protector that's made of that
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instead of some layo piece of plastic that means it's flexible shatter
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resistant scrape resistant oleophobic so
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it's easy to wipe clean and it's almost perfectly clear it won't hurt the
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touchcreen performance and finally it won't feel any different from the stock
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glass other than raising the surface of your phone a fraction of a millimeter
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something that folks who like vinyl wraps from companies like dbrand might
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actually find desirable because it'll be more even but it gets better their claim
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that I totally didn't believe is that aside from being removable and reusable
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it's super easy to apply and basically impossible to get bubbles stuck in so
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after the first step where you use the included wipe to clean the surface of
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the phone I peeled off the backing and tried to lay it down as gradually and
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carefully as I possibly could because I thought it would be really hard to take
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off and reapply I ended up not aligning it quite right and it turns out it was
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both super easy to take off and much easier to put on than I thought because
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I checked the instructions when I did it the second time I did two phones in a
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matter of minutes once I figured it out you just drop it right on the spot on
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the screen and the bubbles like just work themselves out it uses some kind of
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silicone nanoadhesive nonsense to achieve all this but all I know is damn
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it works really well and once on it
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actually stays equally impressive it is noticeably thicker like I said
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especially if you have a button that comes through it like at the bottom of
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an iPhone but the edges are smoothed so
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they're not harsh on your fingers or anything like that and they won't peel
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up even if you have a snug fitting case I actually requested two versions of it
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one for my 1 M8 daily driver and another for my old iPhone 4 because I wanted to
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test and this is the last kind of miraculous claim that they're making
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here I wanted to test their claim that the adhesive coating actually fills
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micros scratches in the glass on beat up devices so this one I got one for just
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cuz I wanted to have one for it this is an over three-year-old phone that has
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tons of micros scratches all over the screen so I put it on after first trying
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to kind of catch some of the scratches in the light and after I did no it does
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doesn't fill in all the scratches but it did make a visible difference many small
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small scratches were filled in to the point where I can't see them anymore and
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some of the bigger ones well the visibility is actually reduced so there
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you go does what it says it is that's it I guess one of the most positive reviews
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I've ever given on this channel uh maybe I'm a sellout and they slipped me a
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couple hundreds maybe it's because I'm biased towards my Canadian bro who
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brought this product to Market or maybe it's because this truly is the first
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green protector product that has impressed me in the last two years
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because it's basically like putting another identical skin of corning's
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awesome glass that I like I'm a huge fan of as an extra protective layer over top
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of your original one I'll let you guys decide what my motivation was here
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speaking of deciding an easy decision would be trying out Hulu Plus for
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absolutely free for 2 weeks compared to regular Hulu Plus gives you access to
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all current season episodes of a bunch of network TV shows on your own schedule
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and lets you stream videos on pretty much any device you already own like
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your iPad or your Roku Hulu Plus gives you access to a wide variety of content
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like Korean dramas kids shows and Criterion movies so you can be watching
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a classic on anime like Dragon Ball Z almost said anime what am I even talking
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about I don't even know then you could switch over to the latest episodes of
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network TV shows like Brooklyn 99 with just a few clicks you'll also get access
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to Originals that you can't get anywhere else like The Awesomes created by Seth
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Myers and Mike Shoemaker an animated comedy about a misfit group of
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superheroes all 10 episodes of season one are available now and season 2
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premieres in just a few days on August
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4th so guys be sure to check out Hulu Plus using my link Hulu plus.com Linus
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it only cost $7.99 a month and if you use the link in the video description
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you get the first two weeks of Hulu Plus absolutely free thanks again for
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watching guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment letting me know what
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screen protector do you use are you
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considering trying out Phantom glass it's like Phantoms but like glass Look
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there's nothing in the box it's a phantom actually it's cuz I already
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applied it to a phone but I think we're done here don't forget to subscribe if
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