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Apr 29

Hands-on with the BodyGuardz ScreenGuardz Pure

We’ve all seen them: smartphones with shattered screens, the unfortunate victims of sudden outbursts of gravity. Your heart sinks a bit, watching your friends, loved ones, even total strangers slide their fingers over that sad, spidered glass, thinking, “There but for the grace of…”

Knowing full well the costs and hassles of replacing a busted screen, I pressed a BodyGuardz ScreenGuardz Pure onto my daughter’s hand-me-down iPhone 4. At 13, well, she’s been known to drop stuff.

And just the other day, she did. I’d been planning to write about the ScreenGuardz Pure already, just hopefully without any drop-test data. So much for that.

The all-glass ScreenGuardz Pure can withstand scratches and knocks, but when it comes to gravity, well, it's still glass.

(Credit: BodyGuardz)

Unlike most screen protectors, this one is made of glass — specifically a “special chemically tempered glass exceeding the hardness of steel.” Hardness notwithstanding, the ScreenGuardz Pure looks and feels just the same as the iPhone’s own glass. That’s definitely not true of most of the plastic protectors I’ve tried, which add drag to your screen swipes and can definitely reduce screen clarity. Save for a sliver of extra thickness (which can get in the way of some total-enclosure cases), it’s l… [Read more]