you're here because you want to protect your investment in your smartphone
by protecting the front because well let's be honest that is exposed to the world
you're also here because you've probably started looking into tempered glass screen protectors
versus the generic screen protectors that you can get hello i'm wanderer001 and this is my review of
zag invisa shield glass elite vision guard plus i know it's a mouthful and the thing with screen
protectors are you can't really review it properly until you put it on your smartphone so there's
not much to look at at the beginning but what i will say not all tempered glass screen protectors
are treated the same in fact i originally had a zag invisible shield on my pixel 2 and then got a
generic tempered glass screen protector from my wife's phone and let's just say the results
speak for themselves 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 with that being said looking at the screen protector on here right now is not
going to be as useful as we'll just talk about the box for the start the glass elite vision guard
is a step above their standard glass elite screen protector in that it offers blue light protection
how you feel about that is up to you but based on what we see strongest class protection i can
attest to how strong zags invisible shields are the kills 99.99 of common surface bacteria protect
eyes from blue light and then easy safe technology with this particular one you actually get a little
pamphlet inside which is crazy so again they're showing you hey we protect against bacteria well
that's only protecting your screen surface from bacteria up there in the corner if you're
looking for something to disinfect your entire phone because here they're talking about well
the problems with blue light the amount of time that most people spend in front of a computer
screen and then bacteria that you can pick up on your phone versus what you would see in a toilet
most places that talk about viruses we'll talk about that hey most surfaces are much dirtier
than the toilet in your bathroom and then over here more discussion about blue light like i said
depending on your thoughts of blue light that's up to you whether you want to believe it or not
i on the other hand really got this one because i couldn't find the glass elite plus without vision
guard for the pixel 5. so coming around to the back what we see is protection from digital eye
strain shows true colors and i will say that the color that you see through the screen protector
is true to form i love it shatterproof again can speak to that clear smudge free screen i will say
that again all screen protectors are going to get smudgy all you have to do with these you just wipe
it down and it goes away it is not as smooth to the touch as the just straight glass elite plus
so that little extra layer that you get with the vision guard also makes it a little less slippery
is it a deal breaker no because it is still super smooth it's just not quite as smooth and then
easy application well with most screen protectors that is the bane of my existence
is the application of them so why don't we use this as a segue to actually show you
what the application of said screen protector was like this will be the installation for the
invisa shield glass elite vision plus so we'll go over what's in the box throw that over there
presentation open it up you've got
your application tray so a little guide to help make things easier putting it on your
smartphone we'll just take all that out so what do we have here we have
our cleaning cloth our dust sticker and an alcohol wipe in there all right so that's
that and then here we actually have the glass itself so we'll just pull that out right there
and there you go it tells you which side is up so you take off stage one here first and then stick
it like that now you'll notice in the corner there this does have a punch out and i want to say like
a slight yellowish tinge to it and that's probably because of the blue light so let's be interesting
to see how this goes on we're going to set this aside for the time being we're going to bring
our pixel 5 into frame and it is resting on a case at the moment just to make this a little easier
for me we're going to go through the cleaning process before application so there you can kind
of see there's a little oil spot on there which we will hit first with our microfiber cloth so we're
going to give this a good scrubbing and i'm doing this around the camera and i'll try and make this
as nice for you so that you can see a good good idea for yourself but just keep in mind that my
ocd of needing an absolutely perfect screen is going to take precedence over your ability to
see so i do apologize for that in advance now the one thing that i did notice that was not included
with this particular kit that was included last time with my other invisi shield was a
index card to help smooth things out now i don't know why they decided not to include
that i'm gonna hit it with the wet white which actually is wet in comparison to the earlier
version which did not have a wet wipe it was more of a dry alcohol this is definitely a wet alcohol
but i don't know why they didn't include a index card i will admit that my last application
with my pixel 2 all those many years ago was a practically bubble free application
however i still feel that there should be a card to help push out any bubbles that may
occur and i hope they won't occur but any that do i do wish that they would provide you
with an application index card just to help smooth things out and what we're going to do now is we're
going to take our dust sticker here and we are going to work quickly at this point because
dust just lives in your house regardless so we want to make sure
that we do this quickly so that just existing doesn't drag any dust to it
and that looks like it's as good as we're going to get so we're going to
move quickly we're going to throw the tray on it guide tray we're going to come over we're
going to get our thing we're going to peel peel this layer first which is really really sticky
actually all right this peel this first layer first i have to hit this with the dust sticker
again i can see already all right we're going to hit that with the dust sticker again this
this peel first i'm peeling actually the sticker off of the thing that
you're supposed to peel which is this white thing here so that's that's super
thick so just know you're gonna have to really work that corner which isn't really coming
into focus that corner there to get this thing off looks okay we'll hold our breath
okay we will hold our breath and move quickly
again we'll put our tray on i will take this one off camera
to do because it's just a pain apparently wow yeah that that is really on there okay
so we're gonna take and flip this around
and use our guiding
here and then push down in the middle because that's how this worked last time
push down in the middle and then you kind of work things
to the edges
okay so what we're going to do now is we're going to take a tray off and as my little
tool to work out some of these bubbles like there's a big old one here just push that to
the edge just rub these and i know this makes for super super awesome content for you as many of
them out here as we can now i've said this before i've had other invisishield cases and invisa
shield screen protectors and what i have what has happened in the past is like these bubbles here
they go away as you just kind of day-to-day use i'm gonna say that's good enough for now
so you can see there are a couple of spots there that look a little bit oily but perhaps when i
take off the top layer there look they will go away all right so they did not but like i said
with a little rubbing with this they should disappear but i'm not going to make you sit
through that we'll come back in a couple of days after i use it a little more and see if those go
away as you saw there from the application the screen protector itself is actually a little
thicker than what you get with the glass elite plus and you may notice that i still have some
bubbles on my screen i will say that part of that is probably due to user installation error and
what do i mean by that well in the corner there i had and see if i get that to focus
right there as a little piece of dust that got caught which didn't bother me because it was out
of the way on the side there another piece of dust i actually put this on somewhat cockeyed
meaning i did not line it up perfectly straight so this is my one problem with the cutout is
that you're worrying about the cutout and not necessarily worrying about lining it up
also when i did this i was doing it to film so i didn't have the screen on so you can't really
tell where the screen is on this because it's all black well i was preparing to do a review of the
case i got for this and because this was slightly askew you can kind of see right there there was a
little portion of the screen that was not touching the actual screen itself so there was that little
gap and when i peeled away the case that i had on this it actually lifted up the screen protector
and i got these bubbles and then here i really wish that i could kind of flatten that out and
make that go away and perhaps with time i might be able to again but there actually now is a hair
that got underneath there which is preventing the adherence of the screen protector screen protector
in that corner so for me that's a real bothersome thing with this particular screen protector you
are getting full screen adherence and there are other tempered glass screen protectors out there
that only adhere to the edges i like ones that adhere to the full screen because you
don't want to have that little air gap in there which can cause problems in that you
know your screen protector has a little air gap meaning that pressure can happen things can break
when you have a fully adhered one it takes the entire shock and you don't have to worry
but with the vision guard here because it's got that extra layer like it's it's almost non-ins
but it's large enough that it it caused problems when i peeled it off so that's kind of hard
again it if you look you can see with most glass screen protectors that there is going to be a lip
it's that collects dust and everything one thing with having the punch out for the front-facing
camera just like the sides of the screen protector that punch out does collect dust around where the
camera lens is so it hasn't affected any of the photos that i've taken so far concerned in the
future that i might have to actually dust that off every time before i use the front-facing camera as
opposed to the older one i had on my pixel 2 which was right over the lens and didn't affect picture
quality at all and didn't have to worry about dust collecting there because the pixel 2 has a under
display speaker the question is does this screen protector affect sound quality at all with that
under display speaker and i will say in comparison to how it was before i put the screen protector on
there isn't a there isn't actually a noticeable degradation of sound quality
again this front-facing speaker is nothing like the dual system that i had on the pixel 2
so really the majority of the sound you're getting from the bottom of the phone anyway but for phone
calls and such it is not a noticeable difference in having the extra layer of the screen protector
on versus just having the display itself and when held up on a white screen it doesn't show
anything at all and i would do that but i don't feel that it would be a fair demonstration having
these opened up because you know there's now light bleed there and the reason i'm giving you all this
information is because there is a price difference between the glass elite plus and the glass elite
vision guard plus and it's only a 10 increase but when you're already paying 40 for the base
glass screen protector from zag tacking on 10 for the vision guard stuff bumps that up to 50 dollars
and that makes it a little harder of a thing to swallow for a screen protector 40 dollars for a
zag screen protector i am perfectly fine spending because the proof is in the pudding i i've showed
you what it was like after a period of time with my old phone i have a harder time recommending
a 50 screen protector that you have to be so precise in the application of
and most people out there yes youtubers can slap them on and slap them off and no problems but i'm
not an average youtuber i don't do this type of thing all the time and you can see i was super
careful about it and i still ran into problems so it's difficult for me to recommend something
at this price point even though if it gives you that level of protection i would highly recommend
checking out the glass elite plus for your pixel 5 as long as you're not worried about the blue light
stuff if you're worried about blue light maybe consider it but there's applications on your phone
one up there in the corner that will help you with that so you don't have to spend that extra money
because now this is going to annoy me i'm going to go out and see if i can find the glass elite
plus for my pixel 5 but like i said when i was looking originally they were sold out so i'm going
to try and get that hopefully you have found some portion of this helpful it was a little trickier
for me because i like zags tempered glass screen protectors it's just that the glass elite vision
guard plus for the price was not living up to what i would consider recommending entirely with that
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