[General Accessories] neccoguy21:
NOTE: Before anyone else complains about the length of something they read voluntarily or tells me to "Just use (insert one of a thousand brands I don't have the money spend on to see if it's better than the one I have)", Here's the sum of what I'm saying... My humble and entitled opinion is that XO Skin is by far the best "skin". It certainly is my favorite. Ok, happy reading! :winky face to show I'm not all that upset about anything, just using too many words:

I have revolutionized the way I (and I assume plenty of people to follow if enough people see this) will forever use screen protectors on all of my gadgets. I've done it successfully with my Galaxy Nexus (albeit with the less desired products for what is described here) and it works perfectly. I've never seen this idea talked about, mentioned, or anything else along those lines, so I feel like this deserves a brand new post.

I've been faced with the same dilemmas with screen protectors as many of the rest of you have. Dry installation protectors peel, scratch, get dusty, and so on.. Wet installation protectors have the dreaded orange peel effect, and the seemingly unavoidable "rubbery" texture, which makes gaming near impossible, and even at hotter screen temperatures during prolonged use it makes multigestures fail. So where is the middle ground?

Well, without any further hesitation, I share with you,

THE BEST solution for screen protection:

****This solution does involve the use of a wet install screen protector. If you have any hang ups about using wet installation protectors at all in the first place, if maybe you're unsure about using liquid near you're device, find out more information about them, maybe take it to a Best Buy or your carriers store, the people there have lots of experience putting these on and can help you with understanding if you want to go through with the process or not.

***Please follow all directions and instructions included with your device and any accessories you use. I am not responsible for any damages or otherwise that happen to your device.

I currently have a ZAGG Invisible Shield as the first layer of main protection on my Galaxy Nexus. The installation went beautifully, but the orange peel and rubber effects are forever present. As a solution to this, I simply installed one of Verizon's glare reduction screen protectors over the top, and the orange peel is all but invisible now (finally) and the rubber effect is now outright gone. And the touch screen sensitivity is completely unaffected. I did extensive tests to see if this was at ALL affected, and to my amazement, it was still perfect. Using just the accessories I had laying around that I was unhappy with, I combined them to create a screen protector that now literally has shock protection along with the very best of both worlds from wet and dry installation protectors.

To get an unbelievably smooth solution, I am going to install a mirror finish dry protector, which removes the rubber grip problem, over a wet install XO Skin, which eliminates the orange peel effect the ZAGG still suffers from but still has the rubber grip by itself.

Add that to the XO's full body protection skin for the rest of the GNex, and i may just have found a solution to leaving those bulky cases at home.

This should work with any combination of your favorite screen protectors! Mix and match to find your favorite pair and tell me about it!

(Note: I'm waiting until I get a replacement phone because of unrelated backlight issues before I go forward with the full blown install. I'll post pictures when I get it all done!)

*****UPDATE: the latest stupid thing I did to my Galaxy Nexus was this: I was mindlessly twirling a Bic Lighter attached to a retractable leash (called a lighter leash, it's like that thing for janitors keys, only it's for a lighter. They're quite handy when you're not an idiot)around in bed with my GNex laying right next to me. Before I realized what I was doing, *WHACK*! I smacked my screen so hard with the jagged metal striker wheel the sound scared the crap right out of me. Then I DID realize what I had done and it scared the crap out of me all over again. If I had done what I did without any protection, I absolutely would have busted my screen, or at the very least gouged the living hell out of it. A dry protector alone would have probably left me to the same fate. The ZAGG or XO Skin would have undoubtedly been permanently blemished. A waste of an expensive piece of space rubber. But to my relief, the inexpensive top protector took the force of the hit, and left the underlying ZAGG and phone screen untouched. This along with the rest of the reasons ive listed has made this solution a permanent part of my gadget protecting regimen. (pics to follow if I can find my point-n-shoot.)

Please remember to come back and give me a Thanks if this guide helped you out!