Third Avenue on a festival night is a beautiful thing: music, food, a thousand people and every one of them holding a phone one-handed. Día de los Muertos is coming to downtown Chula Vista, and the bumping elbows come with it. So, are screen protectors worth it? Mostly, yes.
What a protector actually does
It's a sacrificial layer. Keys, sand, a rogue ring on someone's finger: the scratch lands on the protector, and you peel it off when it's had a rough life. Your real screen stays clean underneath. A cracked protector is a sad little moment. A cracked screen is a repair.
What it won't do
It won't make a phone drop-proof. A bad fall onto the sidewalk outside a Gaslamp bar can still crack the glass, protector or not. That's the job of a case with raised edges, and the two work best as a pair.
A quick tip
A protector that's already cracked or peeling at the corners isn't protecting much. Swap it before the next big night out, not after.
We come to you
Downtown, East Village, Chula Vista, Eastlake: book a repair and we'll come to you. Bring the phone. If the screen already has a crack, we can fix that too.