I use a cheap android phone (<$120 when I bought it 3 years ago). I protect it with cheap case + Hydrogel screen protector. I’m satisfied with Hydrogel type screen protector as it still on good condition even after my phone falls screenfirst many times. There are many scratches right now on the screen protector, but it still usable and not annoying as most scratches located on the edge of screen. Most of them caused by falling sceenfirst to gravel ground and asphalt several times… lol.
I have an exuberant 3 year old (child, the phone itself is 4) my phone has taken a couple of flights off the second floor balcony. Otterbox and screen protector, no scratches!
I always have a case, but no screen protector, the case extrudes enough from the front to protect the screen most of the time.
I used to have a screen protector, but because it adds extra width it went outside the edge of the case and it broke. And honestly I prefer microscratches over trapped dust particles. The only reason I’d put a screen protector on my phone now would be to replenish the oleophobic coating, and I’d do it, it’s just that idk which brand I could trust to actually have a good one included.
I have a case, screen protector, and a vinyl skin to protect the back glass from scratches too. There is literally no surface on my device left unprotected.
Nope, none of that. Pristine condition. Never needed any of it for any of my smartphones.
I always use the same cheap black TPU Spigen cases with raised edges to protect the screen from drops on my phones, sometimes Android sometimes iPhone. No screen protector, no plan, no scratches. I have had mobile phones since the Nokia 2110 and never cracked a screen or had dents. There’s been a scratch a few times but most often not.
I typically don’t use a case or a screen protector. I don’t like the bulk a case adds, and no one will ever convince me that screen protectors aren’t the biggest placebo-born racket of the digital age. And until very recently I had never gotten the extended warranty or protection plan on a device in my life.
I don’t drop my phone. I never put it in a pocket with anything else. If it’s not in my hand or my pocket, it’s face up in the very center of an end table — never the coffee table, because it might get kicked there when someone puts their feet up. If I leave the room, so does my phone.
I had gone fourteen years without a single incident. I replace my phone when I feel like I’m ready, never because I have to.
Until last month, when my Pixel 6 Pro fell out of my pocket when I knelt down to tie my shoe. I was wearing sweat pants (for the first and now probably last time in my adult life, for the record), and it just… slid out. Couldn’t have fallen more than six to eight inches. But it landed on the corner, on a cement sidewalk, and the back just shattered. The screen itself was still pristine (because again, screen protectors are literally pointless), but over the following days I noticed the touchscreen was less responsive due to internal damage from the drop. I was devastated.
I now have the Pixel 7 Pro. It’s in a bog standard $35 clear plastic case and I bought the $9/month protection plan this time… but we’ll see how long either of them last.
No case, no screen protector, only have a single micro scratch, had the phone a year and a half.
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Case, screen protector, and AppleCare+
Case because I like the way my case feels over just metal, and screen protector because my phone sometimes ends up in the same pocket as my keys and I don’t want to end up with micro scrapes. Additionally, one time I pushed off of some rocks I was sitting on and my phone was face down and I shattered my screen protector but my phone’s glass was fine.
I’ve only ever actually used Apple Care once and it was because I got a battery service needed alert about a month before care was going to expire so I got a free replacement phone - it was in the middle of COVID closures too so they mailed me a new phone and I mailed them my old one. I could probably get by without it but I’m paranoid that the time I skip it will be the time I shatter my phone before I’m ready to upgrade.
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I use a drop-protection case, but no glass-protector. Not really necesarry for me.
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I have had my phone for close to three years and gone through three or four cases, but it is still in pretty good condition. No scratches or microscrated on the body or screen and no dents.
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Glass screen protector. Rear leather skin from dbrand. Insurance from my bank.
I use a full case, with built-in screen cover. The case is banged up and the screen cover is scratched up but the phone inside is still basically pristine after about 5 years. I’ve replaced the case once a few years ago and probably will again if I don’t get a new phone. In the past I didn’t use protection and my previous phone had the screen break from a ridiculously short drop so I decided to go all out on protecting my next phone. It’s worked out well because I literally toss my phone wherever I want without really worrying about it now.
Yeah, specifically a hard glass screen protector - it has saved me multiple times!
IIRC the one I have atm is PanzerGlass.
Look into liquid glass. Relatively cheap and easy way to make your phone screen more resilient.
