Screen Protector

[Joe Horn]

(07-09-2018 12:16 AM)JDW Wrote:  Are we talking Gorilla glass here, or just basic glass?

Tim Wessman wrote that it's "Hardened soda-lime glass".

(07-09-2018 12:16 AM)JDW Wrote:  I'm mulling the purchase of a Prime because I have a daughter in high school. She lacks Michael Jackson's diamond studded gloves, but she did warn me last night saying, "I will drop the calculator at school. It's it durable? I drop the calculator I have now all the time because my desk is so small at school."

Calculators with plastic screens won't break when dropped at such heights, although they would scratch easily. Glass is an altogether different matter though. Adding a screen protector may not be necessary on the Prime, but it might enhance durability against shock. That's only my theory though.

Thoughts?

I've dropped Primes only twice, from desktop height to a stone floor, and both times the only result was a tiny dent in the metal corner of the calculator. What would happen if it landed face-down on a very hard object? Don't know, but my guess is that it would shatter the display. I highly doubt that a thin film of plastic over the display would prevent it from breaking. "Screen protectors" are intended to prevent scratches, not to prevent damage from ballistic impacts.

Suggestion: Have her pay for it, using money she has earned over time and carefully saved. That will probably render her Prime unbreakable, and if not, it will definitely render her second Prime unbreakable.