You people probably aren’t living around beaches. Sand + glass = scratch. I use my G5+ naked, put it face down, and I have a few nicks after a year of use already. And I am already super fussy only putting my phone down on soft surface.
I’m pretty careful with my phone. I try to only put it face down on something soft, put in pocket by itself, etc…
The screen protector on my old phone looks pretty new after a year or so, so maybe I don’t really need a protector. I imagine the phone’s glass has to be even tougher than the protector. The thing is my current protector feels the same to me like the glass on my new phone, so I don’t really mind it. The image looks fine too on it.
Maybe if I don’t like the glass protector I bought for the X4 I’ll try going without - just use my Spigen case.
I have the ArmorSuit “self-healing” protector on my Note 8. I prefer glass protectors, but most of them have pretty poor reviews for the curved screens. I don’t throw the Note 8 as much as I did the Moto Z Play, so hopefully it’ll do!
Metal keys and household objects won’t scratch your phone’s Gorrila Glass screen, but sand will.
What is as hard as your phone’s screen is sand, grit, and other particles that have bits quartz, topaz, and other such minerals in them. Your brain doesn’t equate tiny particles with big scratches, but it’s science, my good sirs and madams. And fine white sand, the kind on Florida beaches, may very well be what caused the smaller, circular scratch on my wife’s phone.
Maybe it’s because of my smaller kids, but my pockets naturally get sand / grit during the course of the weekend or on vacation.
Cool party trick: Gorilla Glass can also scratch Gorilla Glass.
When I shattered the screen on my second S7E (have I mentioned how much I goddamned HATE curved screens?), I had it and its replacement on my person for a couple of days ensuring a full transfer of stuff from old to new. At one point, I absentmindedly put them both in my pocket for a couple of hours, screen-to-screen.
The new one had a lovely spiral pattern of hairline scratches all over it for the rest of its tenure with me after that from the cracked glass of the old rubbing against it while I walked around.
I have (and love!) an Essential PH-1, and while it was initially touted as being virtually indestructible – Ceramic! Titanium!! – I do keep it in a case because it is otherwise very slippery and I’m not the most attentive person on the block.
I tried a tempered glass protector, but the early ones released for the phone didn’t fit well. So, I’m entrusting my screen to this: https://www.amazon.com/WHOOSH-Diamond-Defense-Protector-Application/dp/B06XGKC2P9/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527184891&sr=8-1&keywords=whoosh+diamond
Because, hey… nano particles!
My new replacement Pixel got scratches on the screen very quickly. I was puzzled and thought it was my keys. I started being more careful with my keys, but I’d still get scratches.
About a month later I clean out my bag and I find I had a very sharp screw in the bag. Sigh.
I don’t know about you guys, but I keep my phone in my front shirt pocket 90% of the time if it’s on my person.
I keep it in my jean/pant pocket so that it can give me thigh cancer and make my sperm lazy.
Yeah, left front pants pocket; wallet in keys in front right. Only thing that shares the left pocket most days is a bag of Aleve and Advil I carry around to maintain my pain med dosage all day
You never wear t-shirts?
The actual problem with front pocket is it presses the sciatic nerve. I was told this exacerbates sciatica (leg pain). I recently had an acute hernia and I will avoid doing anything that will make it come back again. I was crawling on the floor like a dog. It took 5 minutes to go to the bathroom.
Whatever happened to phone holsters? I guess our phones are now too big for them?
I may graduate from a murse to a shoulder swing bag. It may look less dorky.
I only do that when its time for a new phone. I lean over to pick something up - drop - oh it still works! Repeat until broken.
I exaggerate but as a cheapskate, I hate replacing a perfectly good phone. I just swapped my Nexus 6 with a Pixel 2 XL, mostly on the basis of battery life.
Wait, my doctors never mentioned that after my bout of severe sciatica a couple of years ago. Are wallets a no no, too? Mine is way too fat to fit into the back pocket. Maybe I’ll have to go back to carrying a manpurse all the time again like in college…
Well it wasn’t from a specialist. I asked why my leg was hurting and he said it was from the wallet I kept in the front pocket pressing the nerve. Could be wrong, could be right. I get to carry more junk around thought, so that’s ok.
Back pocket I don’t do because the first teacher I had in high school said I’d get pick pocketed.
Sciatica is almost always caused by nerve compression inside the spine, where it has to navigate through some narrow, twisty, bony canals and can easily get pinched.
The segment of the nerve in your thigh is covered by lots of squishy packing material (fat, muscle) and it would be very difficult for anything in your front pocket to pinch it.
In contrast, something in your back pocket could definitely make sciatica worse. Not necessarily by directly pressing on it, but because your hips and therefore spine would adjust to the bulk by slightly rotating. Even a slight rotation could potentially cause much more pinching.
Wallet in the back pocket is absolutely a potential factor for sciatica and all kinds of other fun stuff. Nobody should wear their wallet in their back pocket, no joke.
My dr. also said the pressure from wearing a belt too tightly can cause nerve pain.
In the car if I’m on a long drive I usually remember to take my wallet out of my back pocket because sitting on it definitely causes me discomfort.
Sad news for Essential Phone fans :(
What a bummer, I like mine, even if it has quirks. The writing has been on the wall for this firm for quite some time.
I hope some other Android maker takes up the mantle of small form factor and nearly vanilla Android at a reasonable price.