if you're like me one of the first things that you look for after you get your new
smartphone aside from a case to put it in is a screen protector to use with it granted most
smartphones nowadays have very good screens and they don't scratch or break very easily however
if you want to add an extra layer of protection to that smartphone and investment that you just
made a screen protector is the way to go hello i am wanderer001 and this is my review of the
zag invisashield glass elite plus for the google pixel 4a 5g i know that sounds like a mouthful
but you are here because you are looking for a screen protector to protect your investment of
your new smartphone you are also here because you probably started down the rabbit hole
of glass screen protectors and why they're better or not better than the plastic ones that you can
just slap onto your phone i will say this is not my first glass screen protector i've done
two others one from zag on my pixel 2 review over there in the corner and then another one
which i'm just gonna say was an off-brand for my wife's phone and we're just gonna say that was not
the greatest and we're not even really going to touch on it actually what i'm going to touch on is
i'm going to say not all glass screen protectors are treated equal here's an example of my pixel 2
zag and visit shield versus that other screen protector that i'm not mentioning example of
not all glass screen protectors are treated equal this one was put on much sooner than the one on
the left here this is my pixel 2. so i've had this on here for three years and you can see
aside from just needing to be wiped down a little more it's just a little greasy this on my wife's
has not quite been three years on here but you could see it is much worse for wear again pixel 2
which is an invisa shield versus a random glass screen protector one of the problems with screen
protectors is they're just not very photogenic to actually do video reviews of so what we're
going to do is we're going to talk about the box and then come back to our screen protector here
now yes this box was ripped in half by a small child but we're going to use this as an example
so here we go zag invisa shield strongest glass screen protector ever and i can attest as you saw
scratches on the one i had on my pixel 2 nothing compared to that other one and then the uh 99
keeps viruses and bacteria off your phone but we can flip that around and you can kind of
see a little better and since we have half of this anyway we're just gonna put this over here
four times extreme shatter protection meaning you can smack it with a hammer you can scratch it you
don't have any problems clean smudge free screen well anything that you use is going to smudge
however unlike the plastic ones where you really have to work on it this one you can just wipe wipe
via your shoulder or a thing and you're good to go maximum scratch prevention you saw that in the
comparison smooth silky feel i am going to say once you have a glass screen protector and just
the feeling of the swiping on it you will never go back to a regular plastic one that you slap
on there there are also different levels of glass screen protectors and the smoothness that you get
zag invisa shield i will say by far the best i've done and then the easy application and then over
there you've got your kills 99 most common surface bacteria so that's a big one right there and then
kind of a breakdown of the screen protector the easy application i will admit as far as screen
protectors go this is one of the better ones that i've done it is not without its fault and
i guess that's a good way to say let's segue into actually showing how putting this screen
protector on is different than others all right so this is what you get in the box for the invisi
shield glass elite plus for the pixel 4 a5g and just kind of throw that over there show
you presentation wise i guess because this is really just a screen protector so it's hard to
really show off so you've got a application tray and some paperwork well
a little warranty in there too so we've got a packet application stuff so we've got a cloth
alcohol wipe and a dust sticker so that's good and then over in this pack is going to be the actual
screen protector that's going to go onto our phone i'm going to stage the area first
i'm going to use a case to kind of lift up the phone there since you know camera bump
is pretty substantial and then we're going to kind of pull all of our accoutrement out
so step one aside from that sticking out in the corner over there as i'm going to give it a good
quick rub down with the cloth here make sure that there are no smudges because smudges are the being
of the existence of when you are applying screen protectors because those smudges will attract
dirt as well as prevent the adhesive from latching on there now the phone is
still reasonably new so i don't have a lot of work to do but i am going to use the included
applicator here or the uh alcohol wipe as i throw it all over the place just to be extra cautious
now this one is definitely wet in comparison to the other screen protector from invisa shield
that i had where it felt very dry this is this is clearly wet you can see there's wetness on the
screen and it's definitely alcohol so we're gonna take our cloth again and we're gonna
dry that i know it doesn't make for great recording but these are the steps that
you're going to need to go through if you do this yourself and we're going to wait one
second because we're going to take out our glass screen protector over here and kind of have it
getting ready on the side because we're going to have that situated now with this particular
glass it does have a punch hole for the camera and what we're going to do now is we're gonna
get situated very shortly with our guide but we're gonna take our sticker here and we're just gonna
hit this screen with it really quick because just existing in a room that you're in breathing can
produce dust and we don't want that on here so that looks pretty good right now so we're going
to do is we're going to flip that over we're going to throw our guide on there really quick
and we're going to bring our shield over it says we're going to peel this top layer first
so that's what we're going to do peel the top layer remember this has the hole punch
on it so without touching the screen we're very quickly gonna move down and we're gonna
use this guide now i'm not a fan of guides normally but i'm going to give this a shot
and you push down in the middle and then you work your way to the edges now in business
shield says that it does bubble free application and when i did this last time with my other phone
it was fairly accurate actually it was as bubble free as i could get it now this one
did not actually come with a card to work out any of these possible bubbles i say possible because
i had problems last time which i thought were bubbles and they didn't actually end up being
bubbles but rather they were just things in the top layer so we're going to do is we are
going to actually get yeah from another product and we're going to fold this over and kind of
work out any possible bubbles that there could be and we're just gonna
give that a good rub and yeah i know that sounds great but uh yeah we're just gonna take this
piece of card fold it over that way a little bit so i can kind of push and we're going to take it
off of that all around the edges to make sure that it adheres because that's the other thing with
this particular screen protector is that it is a full adhering screen protector so it's not just
adhering to the edges it adheres to the entire phone thing to try and work out these bubbles
so i'm kind of hoping that these bubbles are on the top and not on the actual
glass layer underneath well
i hate to say it but so the only way to know for sure is to peel this off and find out
oh zag what did you do
you've got bubbles your bubble free application last time all right so we're just gonna
rub some of those down a little bit so there you saw the end product had some bubblage and
it's one thing i don't quite understand with the newer versions of the invisishield because i have
another one coming from my pixel 5 that i'm working on and both of them had that bubbling
at the end which i really had to kind of rub to get those out there's no card in there to kind of
you know push them out yourself you really just have to rub and i did not have that
problem with the ones on my original pixel 2. so it might be a transition that they've made
with the invisishield i don't know for sure but what i can say as you can see now it's
been several weeks and even a week after all the bubbles did dissipate that is a plus the primary
difference here with this invisi shield versus the one i had for my pixel 2 is you will notice in the
upper left hand corner there is a cutout right there for your camera so that's actually an extra
layer of manipulation that you're going to have to deal with with the guide bars that you saw me
using another thing with glass screen protectors and most screen protectors glass in particular
see if i get that to focus in there we go you can see right up here because it raised
has a raised lip it does collect dust i'm not saying that that's a deal breaker but just know
that a glass screen protector will have a certain amount of dust that it will kind of trap around
the edges and that's another thing with the cutout around the camera bump there you will collect dust
there as well so i'm not entirely sure how i feel about having the cutout because the glass
screen protector i used last time didn't have a cut out and the picture quality was just fine
with your glass screen protector in particular you may have heard of an effect called rainbowing
and i will say that yes glass screen protectors do have that and here's a comparison of the phone off
compared to the pixel 2 which is an older version of this particular screen protector and the new
one so you can see the rainbowing effect example of the differencing with the rainbowing effect
on the pixel 2 which is a much older screen protector and the newer on the pixel 4
5g you can kind of see there is still some rainbowing but it is not as pronounced as it
was on the older screen protector and the only time that it even becomes kind of pronounced or
noticeable is on very white screens and you really have to like angle the phone now that rainbowing
effect was only really pronounced in direct sunlight at a particular angle here you can see
i'm not getting any rainbowing whatsoever another thing that you might have come across in your
research of tempered glass screen protectors is that some fully adhere to the face of the screen
while others only do around the edges kind of like the otterbox defender case you've got a
pocket of air in the middle i don't like those types this one fully fully adheres to the foam
but that also leaves you the possibility of those air bubbles and having to work them out
a small small thing to consider but again seeing as how this is not my first invisi shield
i know the quality that i'm getting and for those little headaches and having to
work out the bubbles i'll deal with it adhering to the full screen because i want it to be on the
full screen that's where you're going to get your optimal protection if there's a gap even a little
bit you run the risk of the screen protector shattering itself yes it will protect your phone
but that little pocket of air leaves open an opportunity for breakage you may notice that the
screen protector does not come all the way to the edge of the phone that is perfectly fine because
this gives you the ability to put a case on your phone i will admit that it is a little tricky
lining things up even with the guide that came with it because of that punch out so just know
it's not going to come all the way to the edge because you want to be able to put case on your
phone and those lining up of everything is going to be a little tricky so as you might have guessed
i really like the zag invisa shield elite plus for the google pixel 4a 5g how much is that worth to
you well in this case it is forty dollars and when i did my first review way back when for
the pixel 2 i said 35 to 30 i will change my mind on that 40 for this screen protector it's like a
no-brainer save yourself the heart the heartache of breaking your screen with something like this
the fact that it's so smooth to the touch it feels just like the regular screen underneath
ah you saw the scratches that i had on that compared to the other glass screen protector i
had leaps and bounds forty dollars especially if you're going to hold on to your phone three plus
years it's a no-brainer if you haven't gotten the idea solid buy for the invisi shield elite plus
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