Review: Finicky
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 2, 2014
I've applied screen protectors to half a dozen tablets and phones so I'm used to what works and what doesn't. Overall, this worked pretty well. It's a fairly typical example of the genre, with a bottom layer, the screen protector, and a top layer. You position the screen protector as best you can, remove the bottom layer, readjust the screen protector, squeeze out the air bubbles, then remove the top layer.What I liked:- The two-piece bottom layer. What I'm used to is a single bottom layer. The Buffalo protector has two pieces, a 1" strip along one side, and then the rest. This allows you to hold the protector in position while carefully removing the 1" strip, then making sure that part of the screen protector is firmly in place on the screen. Once that's done, you can remove the rest of the bottom layer. This allows for more careful positioning and fewer adjustments.- The package contains two screen protectors.What I disliked:- The bottom layer is just a little too slick. Holding it firmly in place is bloody difficult and, as a result, the two-piece bottom layer didn't help as much as it might otherwise have.- The screen protector goes fully edge-to-edge. That may sound like a good thing but I want it to be just a hair short on all sides, as that gives me a little room to play with in applying the screen protector. With the screen protector fully edge-to-edge, I had no margin for error, and I ended up messing up one of the protectors. Fortunately, there were two included in the package.Overall, I found this to be a decent screen protector and I can recommend it.