Proper review of all Tempered glass &Protection Film
Ok so I have read upto 14 pages of comments in this thread.
Now for my Poco f1 I have used :-
1.) Gadget Shield Ultra Clear Edge to Edge screen protector (A Film Not glass)
2.) Nilkin CP+ (Tempered glass with sticker that has the black colored edges)
3.) Some cheap jolies (Rs 200) Tempered glass.
I am tired of hearing of all the Tempered glass & screen protector.
First the Jollies one - Cheap and not at all good. So let this go for now.
Second - The wet application based Gadget Shield - Now I don't like this either. The comment the bubbles disappear in a few days is crap. I already mentioned that in review to them. The small bubbles do not go away in few days or even a month. And yes they would blame YOU for the application.
But here is the amazing fault in the film - When u apply wet film and use squeeze to take out the wet water and the air bubbles you actually cause the film to have marks. What I mean by marks is the top portion of the film gets stretched by the use of squeeze and thus appears like a weird marked translucent (which was supposed to be transparent). This's kinda like the film that gets applied on the Car windows to get it tinted but only that it is grey or blackish in colour you do not notice that marking.
Now on this note there is another Indian company (local - Bangalore) "Stillersafe" which also has had advertised sleazily, pretending to be customers who have bought this product and say its awesome. And it goes to say the Microlouver (something similar to example of the film I told u earlier - on the car windows) is stronger than glass, saying it is gel based. What a Load of crap. Can I get that gel info pls.
I would go to an extend that it is a partial scam. But I do appreciate the local business & enterpenurship so won't further go to reveal crap that it is advertising like every other company etc.
So both gadget shield and stillersafe is crap.
Now comes the most talked, in high regards, Nillkin CP+ which costed me about Rs 1000.
This is better than many but for this price crapiest of them all.
First what is a good tempered / protector for your POCO f1 - Understand this
Poco has notch. It display glass starts to curve inside on the edge. Thus an arc of curve of about 1.5 mm.
Also it bezels on all sides. Then it has a notification led at the bottom
On the notch it has -
\__0_0_===_o_0__/
From left Sensor "0 or o" are
Proximity,
IR,
=== -> SPeaker grill
o -> Ambient Light Sensor
lastly camera
Now no screen protector or tempered glass covers the curved portion.
Most protector are only scratch resistant (including the stiller safe one) and with wet applications have the issues which I mentioned earlier.
But Gadget shield is edge to edge till the curved portion start (basically cover till 0.3mm before the start of the curved portion).
Now all protectors and tempered glass are bad at the bottom edge because of the notification light and is about 0.5mm shy of the edge.
Most Tempered glass are either :-
1.) Fully clear with notch cutout - E.g Nillin H+ and H+ pro
2.) Fully clear with no notch but rather holes cut out for the sensors. Sometimes it covers some sensor like IR etc. and only have cutout for speaker and camera. I did find one (as shown in the youtube link - by Android Stud published 7th Oct - "Pocophone F1 Screen Protector/Tempered glass Install and review") but this did not cover edge to edge. Also I think number 3 kind looks the best because this clearly looks as something put on top of the dispay and finally when powered off ruins the looks of the display area of the phone (this is my preference). e.g youtube link - by Android Stud published 7th Oct - "Pocophone F1 Screen Protector/Tempered glass Install and review"
3.) Tempered glass with a film/sticker on top of it which has black colored edges replicating the bezels - Now I like the look of it. It looks like part of the display and something that has been grossly put on top of the display like number 1 and 2 kind.
E.g Jollies, Glazedinc, Nillkin CP+
Now Nillkin has all the cutouts and so did jollies for the sensors etc.
But here's the thing :
The cheap jollies, earlier version glasedinc etc what they did was have a tempered glass like
|--------\______/--------| Top edge of the actual tempered glass under the sticker
This is actual tempered glass on which they put a sticker/very thin film which has black edges and black notch with cutouts. Thus at the notch area there is a gap along the notch of depth 1mm between the actual display and the top portion of the so called tempered glass as the actual tempered glass has notch cutout. Thus dust etc. go in from here.
Now what nillkin CP+ and the newer version of glazedinc did was - have tempered glass even in the notch area but here's the problem there cutouts are not completely circular at the cutouts for Camrea, Proximity & IR.
There are like U, that is a circular cutout with no top edge.
|--------U_U_===_o_U--------| See the top of the cutouts within the tempered glass do not have glass edges - U not 0
Thus the uncovered top edges is where the dust comes in from. One of the post in this thread also shows it in picture.
Now these things are done to reduce the cost of the glass required and precision required. Also it leaves a gap shock to dissipate so that tempered glass does not break but it dissipates to the display of the phone
so they can't fully use this fact for false advertising.
Now second problem with all 3 type of tempered glass is that the sticker with the black edges are not accurate. The notch black region on the sticker like 1mm into the display. So does it come on the side area and bottom rounded corners of the Poco display.
I had mentioned this review to Nillkin but as usual just marketing gimmick no actual customer support.
Lastly the Tempered glass like Nillkin, jollies glazedinc etc will crack at the first drop but that is ok cause rather have that cracked than the display and these can take another drop after the crack once appears. Now lastly the requirement to have a thinner tempered glass or film is static electricity to reach the touch sensor under the display to reach easily with not hinderences. Hope this explains everything and they make a better
tempered glass with possibly an actual Gorila glass or dragon glass level tempered glass or maybe more expensive sapphire glass. I would buy 2-3 of them because that would properly protect the display. And have the cutouts proper on the tempered glass with top edges with a proper black lines on the sticker.
Thus this's review of almost all kinds of protector films and tempered glass out there for Poco f1. (And pardon my spelling mistakes)
Now the youtubers may copy this info
Ok so I have read upto 14 pages of comments in this thread.
Now for my Poco f1 I have used :-
1.) Gadget Shield Ultra Clear Edge to Edge screen protector (A Film Not glass)
2.) Nilkin CP+ (Tempered glass with sticker that has the black colored edges)
3.) Some cheap jolies (Rs 200) Tempered glass.
I am tired of hearing of all the Tempered glass & screen protector.
First the Jollies one - Cheap and not at all good. So let this go for now.
Second - The wet application based Gadget Shield - Now I don't like this either. The comment the bubbles disappear in a few days is crap. I already mentioned that in review to them. The small bubbles do not go away in few days or even a month. And yes they would blame YOU for the application.
But here is the amazing fault in the film - When u apply wet film and use squeeze to take out the wet water and the air bubbles you actually cause the film to have marks. What I mean by marks is the top portion of the film gets stretched by the use of squeeze and thus appears like a weird marked translucent (which was supposed to be transparent). This's kinda like the film that gets applied on the Car windows to get it tinted but only that it is grey or blackish in colour you do not notice that marking.
Now on this note there is another Indian company (local - Bangalore) "Stillersafe" which also has had advertised sleazily, pretending to be customers who have bought this product and say its awesome. And it goes to say the Microlouver (something similar to example of the film I told u earlier - on the car windows) is stronger than glass, saying it is gel based. What a Load of crap. Can I get that gel info pls.
I would go to an extend that it is a partial scam. But I do appreciate the local business & enterpenurship so won't further go to reveal crap that it is advertising like every other company etc.
So both gadget shield and stillersafe is crap.
Now comes the most talked, in high regards, Nillkin CP+ which costed me about Rs 1000.
This is better than many but for this price crapiest of them all.
First what is a good tempered / protector for your POCO f1 - Understand this
Poco has notch. It display glass starts to curve inside on the edge. Thus an arc of curve of about 1.5 mm.
Also it bezels on all sides. Then it has a notification led at the bottom
On the notch it has -
\__0_0_===_o_0__/
From left Sensor "0 or o" are
Proximity,
IR,
=== -> SPeaker grill
o -> Ambient Light Sensor
lastly camera
Now no screen protector or tempered glass covers the curved portion.
Most protector are only scratch resistant (including the stiller safe one) and with wet applications have the issues which I mentioned earlier.
But Gadget shield is edge to edge till the curved portion start (basically cover till 0.3mm before the start of the curved portion).
Now all protectors and tempered glass are bad at the bottom edge because of the notification light and is about 0.5mm shy of the edge.
Most Tempered glass are either :-
1.) Fully clear with notch cutout - E.g Nillin H+ and H+ pro
2.) Fully clear with no notch but rather holes cut out for the sensors. Sometimes it covers some sensor like IR etc. and only have cutout for speaker and camera. I did find one (as shown in the youtube link - by Android Stud published 7th Oct - "Pocophone F1 Screen Protector/Tempered glass Install and review") but this did not cover edge to edge. Also I think number 3 kind looks the best because this clearly looks as something put on top of the dispay and finally when powered off ruins the looks of the display area of the phone (this is my preference). e.g youtube link - by Android Stud published 7th Oct - "Pocophone F1 Screen Protector/Tempered glass Install and review"
3.) Tempered glass with a film/sticker on top of it which has black colored edges replicating the bezels - Now I like the look of it. It looks like part of the display and something that has been grossly put on top of the display like number 1 and 2 kind.
E.g Jollies, Glazedinc, Nillkin CP+
Now Nillkin has all the cutouts and so did jollies for the sensors etc.
But here's the thing :
The cheap jollies, earlier version glasedinc etc what they did was have a tempered glass like
|--------\______/--------| Top edge of the actual tempered glass under the sticker
This is actual tempered glass on which they put a sticker/very thin film which has black edges and black notch with cutouts. Thus at the notch area there is a gap along the notch of depth 1mm between the actual display and the top portion of the so called tempered glass as the actual tempered glass has notch cutout. Thus dust etc. go in from here.
Now what nillkin CP+ and the newer version of glazedinc did was - have tempered glass even in the notch area but here's the problem there cutouts are not completely circular at the cutouts for Camrea, Proximity & IR.
There are like U, that is a circular cutout with no top edge.
|--------U_U_===_o_U--------| See the top of the cutouts within the tempered glass do not have glass edges - U not 0
Thus the uncovered top edges is where the dust comes in from. One of the post in this thread also shows it in picture.
Now these things are done to reduce the cost of the glass required and precision required. Also it leaves a gap shock to dissipate so that tempered glass does not break but it dissipates to the display of the phone
so they can't fully use this fact for false advertising.Now second problem with all 3 type of tempered glass is that the sticker with the black edges are not accurate. The notch black region on the sticker like 1mm into the display. So does it come on the side area and bottom rounded corners of the Poco display.
I had mentioned this review to Nillkin but as usual just marketing gimmick no actual customer support.
Lastly the Tempered glass like Nillkin, jollies glazedinc etc will crack at the first drop but that is ok cause rather have that cracked than the display and these can take another drop after the crack once appears. Now lastly the requirement to have a thinner tempered glass or film is static electricity to reach the touch sensor under the display to reach easily with not hinderences. Hope this explains everything and they make a better
tempered glass with possibly an actual Gorila glass or dragon glass level tempered glass or maybe more expensive sapphire glass. I would buy 2-3 of them because that would properly protect the display. And have the cutouts proper on the tempered glass with top edges with a proper black lines on the sticker.
Thus this's review of almost all kinds of protector films and tempered glass out there for Poco f1. (And pardon my spelling mistakes)
Now the youtubers may copy this info
