Glass screen protector for the 12.2 - MIME

Update: 5 months use and it cracks for little reason other than poor construction
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UPDATE: Now available for limited preorder at MIME - Thank you MIME and everyone who helped make this a reality!

UPDATE: mime has a glass protector "in development" according to their website, and an OP reports mime should have it ready next week (week of April 1st). I'll update again once it is available. Yea!

After getting the real glass screen protector for my wife's ipad air and the gumdrop bounce skin for it, I don't know if I would want to use any tablet without them. The real glass makes for the most amazing interaction with the device and the bounce skin I find perfect for a tablet, I don't need the extra plastic frame, just a thick silicone skin with oversized corner protection.

Does anyone know if there is a coming glass screen cover?

Mike02z said:

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Here is the link to their contact form. If we all request it, maybe they will build it.

http://mimeusa.com/contact/

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Thank you for doing this Mike! I replied, and I hope others keep it up and request the glass, even if they are only thinking about it. If you ever try using glass, you will see why absolutely no plastic is comparable. It must be glass or it sucks. I personally wipe mine down frequently, I just have to have that mirror surface. We can debate about if it is better to use TMS-Cl to coat it (think rain-X for a car window, which is likely what the "oleophobic coating" is) [gotta love marketing guys] or just plain glass, but it must be glass. Nothing else will do, it does not matter if you are kinesthetic dominant or not in your learning style, glass is just better.

Hopefully we can get someone to make the glass protector.

Mike02z said:

Here is the response I got from MIME.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for reaching out to us, and thank you for your support! We are
still gauging demand for Samsung's new tablets. If we receive enough
message requests you can be sure we'll make it happen

Best,
MIME

Here is the link to their contact form. If we all request it, maybe they will build it.

http://mimeusa.com/contact/

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tonyz3 said:

Sent my req to Mime.

But a pretty good alternative for now.....http://www.amazon.com/Spigen-Samsun..._sim_pc_5?ie=UTF8&refRID=1EJRPT7KRKD5FKSBVEKK

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Do you have this? Since it is plastic I don't trust it, I think it will scratch even though it give a hardness value that is pretty high. Too expensive for a plastic film for me. My GUESS is that it will also not "feel right" to me, plastic always has a wave to it. You need plate glass to get that perfectly smooth surface. Sometimes I've gotten away with using plexiglass (fiberglass plastic) for a flat surface (most notably building a dead flat magic sculpt rectangle that would not warp in high heat when I baked the model I was making), but still its tricky, glass is much much better to me. Also by saying it will get scratched, my glasses get scratched and they are made from similar material and even have the scratch resistant coating on them. My ski goggles get scratched, and those micro fine scratches build up fast. This is why I constantly demand glass for my touch sensitive devices. Heck my 3 year old thinkpad convertible tablet screen (non-glass) has micro scratches and marks on it and I only infrequently use it as a tablet (b/c it is not intuitive like the current tablets).

If you have it and it works really well, please let me know, but I just have a feeling that it is overpriced and will scratch.

I have that companies nano.t glass for my S4 because at the time it was the only thin glass I could find that would fit under the otterbox defender case (all other glass products were too thick). It is a nice product, but I got the TechPro glass for my wife's ipad at <1/3 their price and it is magic for the ipad air. I like that companies products, but I think they are priced a bit too high. They have great marketing, so good for them, but I'll go to someone cheaper if I can, its all glass underneath and I can apply my own TMS-Cl if I need to.

I told MIME in my request that I would buy all my future glass from them if they made this, and I will. Supporting companies that make good products is the only way to encourage them to keep going with making new good products.

For a tablet I feel like I would want the thicker glass, but I don't care, I just want a real glass protector for this tablet when I get the LTE version as soon as it comes out. I want a tablet I can read a scientific paper on at full size (or just about). Just like the comic book guys want to read comics at full size. I figure by supporting the development of this size tablet, the weight will come down rapidly in a generation or two, and the computing power will rise dramatically too.

I'll thank everyone who goes and requests the glass protector and then posts that they did it in this thread. Hopefully we will all get what we want, a glass screen protector. If you made it this far, thanks for reading!

Mike02z said:

Here is the response I got from MIME.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for reaching out to us, and thank you for your support! We are
still gauging demand for Samsung's new tablets. If we receive enough
message requests you can be sure we'll make it happen

Best,
MIME

Here is the link to their contact form. If we all request it, maybe they will build it.

http://mimeusa.com/contact/

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Russbad said:

Anybody tried this Zagg screen protector yet?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/zagg-in...p?id=1219098632627&skuId=4545042#tab=overview

This ZAGG InvisibleSHIELD GP2HWS-F0B features military-grade material to protect the screen of your Samsung Galaxy Note PRO 12.2 or Galaxy Tab PRO 12.2 from scratches. The thin, glass-like surface maintains clear images and rich colors.

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Whenever I hear this, all I think is marketing. The key quote for me is this "to protect the screen of your Samsung Galaxy Note PRO 12.2 or Galaxy Tab PRO 12.2 from scratches" - I translate this as "protect the note pro screen", it does not say or mean 'provide a scratch free surface to write/interact with' which is what they WANT YOU TO THINK it means, but it is not. Plastic will scratch and gather up micro scratches on it and it will not be perfectly flat like glass so it will be less than ideal to work with. I agree with the statement someone made that I'm spending a lot of money on this, I'm willing to go a little bit more to get a quality glass screen protector. [I will also likely buy a cheap, cheap cheap plastic film until then.]

I think of it as writing on the surface like it was meant to be (the surface is glass) so covering it with glass duplicates it but if I scratch the glass protector, I can peel it off and replace it, unlike the original screen surface. Nothing will be perfect at protecting from damage, but a glass protector will be as perfect as it gets. It is also my guess that people who don't think glass is worth it, just have not tried it yet (that would be my highest %, with some other stragglers as 'don't care about a protector', 'don't have the money to get glass', 'don't understand why they need a protector' [not stupid people, but just aren't cynical/experiences enough to realize they will scratch stuff until it happens and then they don't like it and can't do anything about it], or finally 'insensitive to the glass/plastic differences or minimal interaction with device').

I'm going to write to MIME again and say that with the consumers that are willing to spend a premium chunk of money on this device, will likely be either willing to or demand to spend a premium chunk of money on the ideal screen protector (meaning glass). Just like grocery stores (by the use of rewards cards) figured out that people who spend the extra money to buy organic milk will also spend the money to by organic mushrooms and other high profit items that people who just want to buy regular milk will not want to buy. So by spending the space and money to cater to these customers who demand premium products, they can make more money (and good profit) by carrying other premium products. Not everyone buys them, but the people who buy them tend to purchase other similar items. The Note Pro 12.2 is an expensive tablet,we want quality in it (high amounts of screen real estate) and are willing to pay for it. Since we are willing to spend a little more for it, I bet as a group we are willing to spend a little more to buy the "best damn screen protector surface" that we can afford. Maybe that is it we want to buy a surface, not just a protector. We want to buy an experience, the kinesthetics of fluid user/device interaction. To get the best interaction point you need glass, you just can't get it with plastic. Its not just a protector its surface interaction we want. I'll send this to MIME, maybe their marketing people can use it. With plastic you get a screen protector, with glass you get a true surface.

I just want to say thank you to everyone who is posting and for writing to MIME to help get this made for us high end tablet users. The days are dragging by until the LTE comes out and I can buy it. I want it NOW (with glass and a gumdrop bounce brand skin).