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Tired of people looking over your shoulder or glancing at your phone screen even as you compose private messages or enjoy a picture or two? GPEL has your solution with the GPEL Privacy Screen, now for the Google Pixel 3a.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ installs, demonstrates and reviews the GPEL Privacy Screen for the Pixel 3a, finding it easy to install and darn useful both.
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A privacy screen for the Pixel 3a? Let's put it on and see how it works
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Dave Taylor here and I'm still enjoying my Google Pixel 3a. It's a really nice little
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budget smartphone and apparently it is telling me there's stuff going on. How cool is that
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But here's the thing is that they're not very private. Modern smartphones you can see what's
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on the screen for quite a range which means someone sitting next to you can certainly
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quite easily sit and watch what you're doing. That's kind of a drag. So enter this. This is
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the G-Pel privacy screen for the Google Pixel 3a. Now they have privacy screens for a ton of
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different smartphones and of course you want to get exactly the right one so it's exactly the right
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size dimensions and has all the right shape for your exact phone. So let's see what's in the box
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We're going to go ahead and put it on and then when we're done I have an OtterBox case for the
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Pixel 3a and we'll see if the screen protector is case friendly too. Now open it up and it's
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pretty standard set of instructions. Let's see what's inside. There's a happy sticker or not
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happy sticker. Okay there's the installation kit and there is of course the actual glass screen
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protector. So let's see the box has instructions and I'll tell you the first thing I did is I
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washed my hands thoroughly because the first thing you want to do is get the oils off your fingers
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otherwise it kind of ruins the whole thing. Then we're basically just going to clean this and get
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it squeaky clean then put the screen protector on rub it around done easy right. So they say
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open the kit. All right we're going to open the kit and let's see what's in this installation kit
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and in the kit we have let's see a lint free soft cloth really nice and soft actually
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and a let's see an alcohol cleaner and two dust removal stickers pretty exciting. Now they say
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you should clean with the alcohol wipe then remove the adhesive cover from the back of the screen
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protector place it on and then put it on. So actually they don't even tell you to use the
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dust removal stickers so we're going to improvise a little bit. So I'm going to start as they
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suggest with the alcohol cleaner and this is basically the same thing you'd get at any decent
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barbecue place to wash your hands or to like keep clean your fingers off after you've indulged in a
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rack of ribs or something. So it is basically just a wet piece of cloth and you want to have it on a
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nice flat surface so you can work with this and not hassle. So easy enough if you can't do this part
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then you probably can get someone else to help you but even people that don't like keeping things
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clean should be able to manage this. We want to do a nice job here and let's see I think that's good
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and now I'm going to look and see if there's any I don't see any dust but we're going to use the
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dust removal sticker anyway because hey it comes with two right. So this is easy you literally just
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do that you put it on and you can have some fun with it I suppose but mostly you want to do this
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on the edges. So there we go and now I'm going to use this just to make sure it's nice and clean
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and of course the phone is actually going a little wonky here because it's like what the heck are you
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doing right now. Tough luck phone cope. Right I suppose you do it with the phone off but I've
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never actually done it with the phone off and now here we have our screen protector and you can
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see already that it is a directional piece of glass. Now it's interesting it's actually Japanese
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Asahi tempered glass and Asahi is sort of the Japanese version of Gorilla Glass which comes
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from Corning. So similar glassworks that focuses on super strong glass. This is a 9H hardness
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an oleophobic coating and you always want that on a screen protector or even on a screen itself
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if you're touching it you don't want it to end up with a bunch of fingerprints. So that's what oleophobic means. It is 0.33 millimeters thick and I can already see it has rounded edges which is
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good because you want to have that nice feel to it and let's see so now they are telling me
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to remove the adhesive cover from the back of the screen protector place it on the phone and then
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gently press the middle so this is really not much to this task so I think I'm actually making
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it harder than it needs to be by explaining it rather than just doing it but we're ready to roll
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so the phone is clean I have the phone and the screen protector on the same orientation which you
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can tell because there's little cutouts on the top of the protector it is now off of the protective
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backing and just basically just need to line it up as centered and perfect as possible that looks
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just about ideal and then I use the soft cloth to push the center and the way these adhesives work
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is it actually will stick by itself though you know there's often little spots that you need to
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rub a little bit more enthusiastically and then you know telling how well it worked is a function
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of actually looking at it at an angle which of course should also give you a chance to see
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how the protective part works and this looks pretty perfect actually I do have the advantage
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of having installed many of these but now straight on it's not quite as bright that's the price you
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pay but look how quickly it goes black so you know someone's looking over my shoulder they're
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looking at it and they're like your phone's off what are you doing but for me it's straight on
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so I'm seeing it perfectly well so again let me show you that is that when you're looking at it
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straight on there's really very little impact from this but even just a little bit off and it's gone
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black so that is exactly what it's supposed to do and it does so this is a 60 degree field of view
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which means instead of having it be like 180 you're giving it like that is your viewing angle
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and someone here someone sitting next to you on the bus or the plane glances over and they either
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see nothing or they see the barest and faintest of all possible screens exactly how you want it to
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work it is installed I think the feel with the rounded edges is great only one more thing left
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to try which is will it work with the case now Otterbox these are probably the worst case scenario
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case scenario because they're very covering cases and indeed it is on here it is in the Otterbox
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case and it's still perfectly functional and just to show you you can see you know phone still works
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exactly as you would want it to and I goodness knows what I'm doing as I'm pushing all these
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buttons but you can see that there's nothing slowing you down in terms of using the functionality
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of the phone all the touch system works you know the screen looks fine you can look at it horizontally
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or vertically and that works fine but again get it in an angle and it goes black it's really more
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designed I think for this but it works either way and it's pretty slick I am not super paranoid but
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I don't really like other people looking at what I'm doing and watching my screen so I like something
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like this and this is a keeper for sure and of course since it's 9h tempered glass it just gives
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you another layer of protection against your screen cracking or being damaged which is bad
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so that's it installed done demoed not too bad now before I tell you how much it is and you're
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going to just go well yeah I'm going to go buy one but before we get there let me ask if you
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can subscribe to my channel really appreciate when you do that cool now this is the gpal privacy
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screen for the google pixel 3a they have it for a wide variety of other phones it is $14.99 at
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amazon.com make double sure you're getting the right one because I have a lot of options you
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want exactly the right one for exactly your phone don't get one that's close get the right one and
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that'll make a difference easy to install and the benefits of having it on I think are absolutely
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demonstrated right there in the ability for you when you're looking at it to see it perfectly fine
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but everyone else to just have a black screen total win totally worth checking out and with
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that this is Dave Taylor I'm going back to my phone which means I'll catch you in my next video