The Case-Mate Universal Privacy Screen is designed to make your smartphone's screen unreadable to the nosy busy-bodies around you. This isn't a new idea, as products similar to this have been used to shield laptop screens for years. Now that so many of us have smartphones and are using them for watching porn more and more “sensitive” tasks, for some of us, it might be a good idea to keep our screens a secret. Stepping up to fill the void is Case-Mate, with their Universal Privacy Screen Pro.
The Privacy Screen is designed to fit just about any smartphone you will find. This is nice for Case-Mate, as they can manufacture one product and market it to anybody with a smartphone. It is not so nice for the purchaser, however, as it means you have to cut the Privacy Screen down to your smartphone screen’s size. I should mention here that I get wildly obsessive-compulsive a little annoyed about dust and fingerprints and stuff on my gadgets, and I really hate anything I have to cut to fit. I can never cut it just right and can always see that jagged edge around my screen. Then the dust starts to collect. (Cue the Norman Bates-shower-scene music as the writer's eyes cross and flutter rapidly.) And this is not like those old Palm-issued screen protectors, where you would get like, 10 and they had the little guide on the pack of the paper side to help you cut it to match the Treo 600 or Zire 72 or whatever device you had. And if you screwed it all up, whatever. You had 9 more and you would get it right after the first or second try. Those things annoyed the heck out of me and they were cake compared to this.
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