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This guide had nice advice for the newbies in the smartphone user world.

The only issue that I didn't like was leaving the soap and water on the phone, that just seemed to risky for me even with protecting the water damage detector strips. But with this being my first smartphone, I was a bit paranoid.

Overall, it took me around 30 minutes and at least 10 attempts at application to finally get it perfectly on. The first couple of times I did manage to get the screen protector on, there was just a very slight edge of the protector that was too close to the ledge of the screen, but enough so that it left a huge bubble gap and the protector wouldn't apply to the screen all the way. So annoying! Other times, the most unnoticeable piece of lint managed to get on the screen. So small you couldn't see it, until you applied the protector and it left a giant bubble where the lint is.

I had to rewash the protector and clean the phone screen so many times. It wasn't funny. I did finally use those pressurized dust remover cans to help with blowing away all the rogue lint pieces, that helped a lot.

Oh, and this guide did not help when using ClearProtectors, at least not for me. The Clear Protector was too rubbery for easy application and washing it to clean fingerprints and marks did not work. Plus, taking it off the screen was waaay too difficult if you need to reapply. In the end, I just went and bought a generic screen protector that feels and applied better. So that's what I've been using!