There’s a moment between when we drop a smartphone and it hits the ground that we are relieved that we purchased a screen protector. Crafted from either plastic or glass, screen protectors help keep ...

If you’ve ever installed a screen protector on your smartphone, you know how temperamental the process can be. Everything starts off hopeful. You clean your phone and eliminate every speck of dust.

Once upon a time, back when the front of smartphones were all generic flat slabs of glass, buying a tempered glass screen protector was a piece of cake -- almost any brand would work, and worked well.

This is a bit embarrassing to admit, but I've probably spent more than a hundred US dollars on tempered glass screen protectors over the past two years on five devices: Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, Galaxy ...