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If you drop this phone face down, scratches will be the least of your worries. More likely it will crack, in which case a stick-on protector doesn't help much. The saving grace on my old XV6700/6800 was that the screen was recessed, and though it's not as nice looking to have a frame around the screen, at least when it was dropped the case took all the damage.

FWIW, I carried my 6800 around in my pocket with nothing else inside for 2+ years. It still has 0 big scratches. Only micro-scratches from contact with the pocket fabric, and those are not even visible unless I take it outside into the sun and tilt it at an angle. And to be honest, I have to wipe away all the fingerprints to see the scratches even in sunlight. Just personal preference, I'd rather have invisible micro-scratches than look at the screen through the distortion of a cheap plastic film. All the ones I've seen make the screen look a bit grainy compared to when it is naked. Also, if you're worried about the safety of your phone, swabbing the screen with soapy water in a foggy bathroom doesn't sound all that safe to me. Too many things to go horribly wrong.

That's just me. I have a strong distrust for all these cheap devices claiming to protect your investment. The reason I started carrying my 6800 in my pocket was because I used to carry my 6700 in one of those aluminum hard cases with belt clip. Seemed like a great idea at first--metal armor for my phone, sure it looked like an ugly brick attached to my hip, but what could go wrong? until a few months in, the door started to get loose, til finally it would just hinge open at random times and my phone would fall right out onto the bricks, face down. After 3 of these incidents in a week, I decided to toss the case and keep it in my pocket instead. Haven't had a problem with this in the last 4 years.