Review: Finally! An anti-glare screen that is bubble-free and easy to install!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 27, 2012
I live at the beach and have tried to use my Kindle Fire there, but have found it completely impossible due to the glare from sunlight. I have wanted a glare screen for much of the year that I've owned my Fire, but the only ones available until recently were horribly rated and were pretty much a permanent option (and God forbid you didn't get it on right the first time!). What I LOVE about the Moshi iVisor is that you can put it on and take it off at will AND there is no worry about getting it perfectly aligned and bubble free the first time because you can remove it and retry as often as you like! You can even WASH it!Installation: The iVisor comes with a cleaning cloth that you use to clean the screen of your Kindle Fire of smudges and dirt before applying the iVisor to the Fire. The cloth had my smudgy screen completely clean in no time. You then peel the iVisor off of its backing and align it to match your Fire's screen. While my first stab at placing the iVisor was good, it needed to be better, so I removed it and tried again--no problem! It has no bubbles because it is not STUCK to the Fire's screen. It is more like a static cling type of hold...but secure!Visual: Once the iVisor is on, you can't even tell when the Fire is off because it blends it beautifully with my Kindle Fire's black edges. When the Fire is on, there is a slight dampening of the visual crispness, but I have still been able to play all the games I have on my Fire and have not had problems seeing any of the details. Facebook text is pretty darned small on the Fire, yet the iVisor has caused me no problems with readability. With book reading, the iVisor dims down the bright white of the book's background, but otherwise presents no problem in reading.Touch: I use a stylus with my Fire, and the two main issues I've had with the iVisor in regard to touch sensitivity are these:1) There is an annoying squeakiness of the stylus' rubber tip against the iVisor.2) I have had some trouble in some (but not all) applications getting the options at the bottom of the Kindle Fire screen to come up on first touch. Sometimes, I have to try 2 or 3 times before the menu pops up. Not liking that, but maybe I just need to tweak the iVisor's position on my Fire screen again.I have been able to play games without much (if any) loss in reaction time or sensitivity from the additional layer of the iVisor between my stylus and my Fire's screen.Anti-Glare: I haven't been able to test the anti-glare properties yet in sunlight as we are about to get slammed with a hurricane, so it has been cloudy for days. I will have to come back and update this section once I am able to do that. Judging from lamplight, though, I'm guessing that it is not totally glare-free, but that it is a huge improvement (for reading, especially) over the shiny brightness of the Fire's screen in sunlight.In summary, I LOVE that the iVisor is so easy to put on and take off, can be washed and reapplied, and does not significantly dampen either the visual sharpness or touch sensitivity of my Kindle Fire. However, I can see the squeakiness and delay on getting the menu to come up bugging me over time, so I'm thinking that I may not use the iVisor full time and only put it on when I know I am going to be reading outside. Still, I am thrilled to have it!