I was really hoping to avoid cracking the screen this time...

[hudebnik]

The last time I got a new cell phone, I immediately started looking for a case that would fit it and cover the screen. I found one after four days. Unfortunately, I cracked the screen after three days :-(

This time, I've had the new phone for a week and a half, during which time I've been intermittently looking for a case that would fit it and cover the screen (and leaving the plastic-wrap that came with the phone, for some semblance of protection). The Apple store doesn't sell cases that cover the screen. Target doesn't sell cases that cover the screen. Indeed, they seem baffled that anybody would want a case that protects against the most common failure mode of cell phones. Anyway, I seem to have cracked the screen yesterday. Ordered a case today; it should show up tomorrow.

Next phone: buy the case before buying the phone. If nobody makes a case that covers the screen, don't buy the phone.

I'm really puzzled: why do people buy phone cases if not to protect the phone's most fragile part? Not all of them even have pink sparkles, so that can't be it....

Comments

[cellio]

Do you mean a case that has e "book cover", or do you mean one that has a transparent pane over the screen and yet is touch-sensitive? (I've never heard of the latter, aside from the film "screen protectors" that are more about scratches. If I'm behind the times and such things exist, I'd like to know about it.)

[hudebnik]

I don't know whether the latter exists; I was looking for the former. I have one for my Pixel that even has a magnetic clasp to hold it closed against accidentally falling open. Unfortunately, I don't know who manufactures it: I got it from a street vendor, the day after my Pixel screen cracked.

[margarita_r]

Several Otterbox brand rigid/hard cases come, or used to come, with a screen cover, which is an added scratch protector. I had one for my previous phone, but I didn't like how bigger it made the phone. Now I have a Galaxy Note 8 with a Samsung S cover case. It has a flip that serves as a limited features screen but it does not lock with a magnet or otherwise. The spouse picked up one like the one you describe, with the magnetic closure, and so far so good. Purchased on Amazon.