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what's up guys John rettinger here the iphone is an expensive piece of technology and as such we all want to protect our investment some people use full cases some you scratch protection and in that scratch protection field there are three major players first one as I've demonstrated earlier is clear coat the next invisible shield and finally the third bodyguards and these are very durable rough plastic s substances that cover your phone in its entirety that are protected in your pocket from keys from scratches and Nick's certainly not going to shield it from drops or protects them from everyday use so I'm going to try all three of these and I'm going to show you how to put them on and we're going to see which one is the best from a price standpoint from an installation standpoint from a protection standpoint then I guys stay tuned and I hope you enjoy buh-bye so the first product we're going to talk about is bodyguards this will run you about 25 bucks and it does come with what they're calling the two advantage gives you lifetime replacements and it gives you to complete bodyguards in the box it's actually quite nice let's go ahead and open this up and I'll show you what comes inside you off the plastic the boxing these things relatively unimpressive and I assume that they'll all look relatively similar inside open it up bodyguards got you covered little plastic card and we have a pen which is traditionally the application that goes on to the phone and say liquid sort of glue but doesn't do any permanent damage to the phone and it's of course removable let's see what else we have installation instructions are right on the side and I'm going to install this live on camera so you'll see that and here are the bodyguards themselves apple iphone 3g layout and that's it big box not much in it let's see we can find anything else they got hidden in here usually they include some sir squeegee but that does not appear to be the case unless it's hiding in there which it's not so I'm going to assume that this plastic piece is actually a squeegee that you use to slide it down and get rid of air bubbles so let's go ahead and start with the installation so I lay on a towel here because these installations can get a little bit hairy you're spraying this liquid stuff all over you and oftentimes you have to spray them all over your hands so you don't want to get your table or desk dirty so let's go ahead take a look at the directions step 1 what your hand to the application solution and keep them wet whenever you're handling the film fair enough be careful not to drop or cut out make sure you spray the back of the film nice and easy lay the piece onto the device getting its close the final position as possible all right squeeze you the middle using overlapping strokes don't push too hard make sure to squeegee out all the moisture and soap if you do not have a haze will slowly appear under the film making the vice look foggy don't panic this moisture will dry out over 12 24 hour period okay and give you some hints as well no big deal let's go ahead and get cracking so step one is to spray my hands at the solution so make sure I do let me say whenever you're touching any of the film to make sure your hand is wet the solution so I'll go ahead and do that just feels like water no no burns times good alright so my hands are covered with the solution I will now take piece of it off go ahead and remove it and I have to spray the sticky side so i will do that right now so make sure it's pretty well covered so i'm going to do that appears to be pretty well covered now they say take it and lay it on top of the device now putting something wet on top of my iphone there's a little bit nerve-wracking for me but i have using the past and i know that this is just standard procedure and they do work so i'll go ahead and slide it where it needs to be should slide relatively easily there we go put it over the button right there looks pretty good so I laid it out of the device and next thing i want to do squeegee from the middle on outward so i'll take that plastic piece from earlier you can see there are some massive bubbles there i'll kind of hold my finger in the middle and i'll start to squeegee outwards we see those bubble stuff to go away this around go the other side now they say let this sit for about 10 to 20 minutes for it to settle so I'm going to go ahead and leave this here for 10 to 20 minutes and I'll turn the camera back on in a few the screen protector is on actually it's on so nice and clearly you can't even see that it's on there a little bit dirty needs to be cleaned there's also excess liquid on the front but nothing a quick breath and rub on your shirt won't get off and really you can't even see that it's there let's go ahead and move on to the back of the device this is a much bigger piece and we're going to go ahead and follow the same steps I will wet my hands just a little bit weird to have to do but listen require that you do do this say it's ticking okay so my hands are nice and wet and we will go ahead and peel this off this is a much bigger piece and it takes out the entire back of the device I want to break it as I'm pulling it off in just feel like putting a real big sticker on your phone I guess it's kind of what it is even though it is a protective sticker and look at that as we pulled it off the bottom part that covers the port on the bottom actually broke off and I wasn't applying any excessive pressure so I'm gonna have to pull off the other side of that and install and actually maybe this is reason that they give you two let's go ahead and truck this one and we'll go ahead and move on to the one so I thought maybe they are giving you two just so you have an extra one or give to a friend I ventilated giving you two because they're pretty easy to break alright so here is take two now we'll try and be a little bit more careful I don't know if that was my air or just these are a little bit more delicate than I anticipated but we will go ahead and try it nonetheless I'll peel this top part off on its own there are a lot of corner pieces here that make a little bit difficult to peel this all off in just one shot there we go no look at that broke off again so I guess that is a big big big big negative for bodyguards but i'll go ahead and try and put this on anyway actually the bottom part stuck to the top which is a little bit annoying we'll go ahead and try and put this on and see if it can work even with a broken bottom piece because if I broke too odds are you may break yours as well we're going to spray this with all the business looks nice and soaked and it is and we'll go ahead and place it on the iphone so easy to tell what goes where just by that little camera hole so place it right on top of the camera hole I'm kind of bend it and fold it appropriately make sure it covers everything so this top part here is close to cover that it got stuck again and broke off just putting it on I'm not even going to try to finish putting us on two pieces have broken on two separate films so moral of the story is bodyguards great for the front of your device not so good for the back that have been to that have broken that was very careful with each so can't recommend the bodyguards as a first shot let's go ahead and move on to another all right guys next up we have clear coat or product actually reviewed about a month or so back and a product that I use on my iPhone on a regular basis so I can vouch for it is actually very good but can be little bit difficult to install there's a box clear coat scratch protection for your electronics how it works scratch proof lifetime guarantee and installation guarantee don't worry if you mess up installation will give you another clear code to try again so that's nice so the recognizing that is a little bit difficult to install but they are stand behind the product once you get it installed doesn't open up the box this will look pretty similar to last one you've got sort of the Griffin with the installation guy to take a look at that in a minute here is the front of the iphone sticker and here's the back of the iphone sticker why should we call them sticker it's a very thick sort of plasticky material we've got the liquid stuff that you spray on your hands and the device and a little rubber squeegee and that's about it so let's go ahead and get to the installation so the installation instructions here are pretty similar to the last 16 and spray your fingers with the spray so we'll do that fingers are good we'll take the phone we'll start with the front peel it off and want to spray the entire sticky side of the plastic so I will do that plugs better to err on the side of caution here and keep spraying if we're not sure you got everywhere even if it's dripping off you know that's okay and keep spraying your fingers to make sure that they're they're wet and don't get stuck to the cover so here we go go ahead and place that right on top I know it looks really weird to put something so wet on your iPhone but it does work so again place it right where it looks like it belongs so not covering the button and with enough room for the speaker grill okay so the next step is keeping this firmly in place take the squeegee and shoot out any bubbles or excess fluid that might be in there can be a little bit difficult because it keeps moving around I recommend letting it sit actually for maybe a minute to two minutes before you start squeegee as you can see it still kind of flailing around a little bit alright so it's a bit more stable but still moving around but that's not a problem we'll just start squeegeeing out all the air bubbles from underneath there pretty simple go to the top besides really don't see any left it looks like all the air bubbles are taking out it's pretty a simple process but it can be a little time consuming to make sure you got everything right so when you're done it should not look like anything should look like just the front of your iPhone you shouldn't be able to see it bubbles or wrinkles at all alright the next step this is where clear coat is unique they're saying wet the top of the squeegee now and continue to wipe out the bubbles so we'll do that spray it as greedy and we will keep wiping out the bowls it's almost like painting it on there you kind of want to make sure that you get everywhere i'm not sure why this step is necessary but I did it when I installed the clear coat the last time came out very nice so definitely go ahead and follow the instructions make sure you get the corners and don't forget there we go looks like we got the entire thing so the screen protector is on and working pretty well and I should mention make sure your device is awful you're doing this so we're going to move on to the much more difficult back of the device this one is a little bit tricky and I'll show you why I will follow the same steps that we did previously with the clear coat so first I will wet down my fingers awesome wet down we'll go ahead and peel this off and see if we cannot break it like we did the last one these are a little bit more durable it looks like there we go we got it off in one piece so we're already a step ahead we will wet it down that's one you really want to make sure you use a lot it's still weird to me to keep putting something soaking wet onto your device but that's just the way it works so here is the iphone powered off here is the clear coat go ahead and kind of wrap it on this one's definitely more difficult because the corners never seem like they're going down and actually tell you that it's okay at the corner seem like they're peeling up just keep pushing them back down could take a good sometimes even three hours to get everything to stick right it's a little bit weird you never quite feel like you have it right I know when I put on the first time I never felt like I had this same working like it was right and then a couple hours later it dried and it looked perfect so you can see the edges are totally sticking up everywhere thing is sliding around but we'll go ahead and follow the steps anyway and we will start squeegeeing so about five minutes have passed and i'm still kind of pushing this down I'm still struggling with it but it's starting to stick down just a little bit more not much but a little bit so I'm going to wet down the squeegee here like they say and I'm going to keep on squeezing make sure you get the sides here make sure you're putting everything down so I'm going to turn the camera off you guys and have to watch me play it this for a while but I will tell you how many minutes have passed and what's look like looking like so you can see what you expect if you want to try putting one of these on yourself alright so about 30 minutes have passed and it's pretty much down all the way corners are still coming up a little bit i'm still working with them but as you can see it doesn't even look like there is a protector on the iphone just looks a little bit shiny still a tiny little air bubble but not bad I'm going to keep pressing it down but it's almost done gotta let it sit maybe for an hour just kind of on its back so you're looking at a good let's say maybe from start to finish probably one to two hours they say possibly three this is pretty much done clear coat looks good it's solid and I'm comfortable with it I feel like it was not going to break and it's going to protect my phone nicely i'm a big fan actually of the clear coat alright so we're going to move on to the invisible shields which will also run you $25 by zagg it's probably the most well-known and it does the same thing as the other two let's see if it does it as well so full body protection million sold there are some quotes on it Wow scratch-proof completely wraps around the digital device by the New York Times that that's like saying critics agree it's see-through that's a ridiculous quote I knew him let's go ahead and open it up and see what we got ter here alright it's been torn the sleeve installation diagram take a look at that in a minute let's see what we got in the Box I'm guessing it's going to look relatively similar fat looks almost identically similar got your fluid got your install squeegee here are some application instructions and here is the invisible shield itself let's take a look at the instructions wash your hands spray your fingertip just holding visible shield in your hand adhesive side up lightly spray the front and back of invisible shield apply it using include squeegee so steps are exactly the same as the previous so for starters here let's focus on the back of the device since the front seems to be pretty standard so we will go ahead and follow installation instructions open up the plastic here now so these invisible shields are really well protected in the plastic go and take them out back then almost appear melted to the plastic they can take him out without ripping I gotta leave that it's actually ripping as I'm pulling it out of the plastic and I was actually very gentle pulling it out so even taking the invisible shield out of plastic it's actually when they put it in there it was stuck to the plastic itself let me show you see that it's actually adhered already to the plastic and they have melted or something in the heat but even putting it on the back on now it's impossible it's actually physically adhered melted right right to the plastic interesting so it's a little bit difficult to even review the invisible shield I was actually looking forward to reviewing this but seeing as they came broken and stuck to the device I can't even do a review i came and pretend to put on the back of this thing so i'm going to assume that it's good and assuming that you don't want to keep yours any sort of heat I don't know how this was stored before it got to me but if I had bought in this I would have run it right back to the store and insisted on a refund so unfortunately i can't really great each uninstallation the best grade i can give on on any of these is not being broken and the clear winner guys is clear coat wasn't broken was relatively easy to install although it did take some time and it works i can vouch what i've been using it i would have liked to try the other two but not really an option seeing as the back is the hard part the front is pretty standard amongst them all so if you have to pick one of the three and i'll put links to all three products in the sidebar guys I gotta recommend clear coat I've used it and I think it's the best and also it's going to come teen one piece not to ripped apart so guys hope you enjoyed for exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter twitter.com / John for lakers I will see you guys in the next video bye bye