Be VERY skeptical of this smartphone "enhancement"...

So today I have an interesting product that's making a bunch of claims

This showed up and I was like, I gotta test that out. I just, I don't know

It's a screen protector that claims to enhance your battery life, improve your signal strength

and reduce the amount of radiation coming out of your smartphone into your face

That's a lot of claims for a screen protector. It's from Tech Armor. They've got a little image here, 15 minutes of cell phone use

This guy's half dead as you can tell, silent threat. the jury's out on this whole radiation situation. Their new screen protector is going to push the

radiation out the back of the phone by blocking it from coming out of the front. But honestly

the thing I'm most interested in is this increase, this improved signal strength. With improved

signal strength, you can also often realize better battery life as well. In fact, they're saying up

to 40% longer battery life. So in this video, I'm going to take some signal strength readings on

This iPhone 10 right here, prior to installing the screen protector, then I'll install the screen protector and take the readings again

in order to see if it actually does improve signal strength. I think it's around 30 bucks, maybe Willy-Doo can give us the big number

30 bucks, did I nail that? I just guessed, okay? It's 30 bucks, it does all these other things

Now you guys may remember I did a video in the past about a case enhanced the battery life What happens is when you lift it up and slide it you notice it lines up with the antenna on the iPhone

Pretty much as expected. It feels pretty substantial actually. It's already nerve-wracking. I'm already starting to get paranoid here about installing the Screen Protector

Although I feel like I've gotten better at it over the years. Device cleansing wipes

Alright, so there's this special mode you can go into on your iPhone

You can try this yourself. Type in star 3001 hash 12345 hash star and then dial it

And it brings you into this field test mode. This gives you all kinds of information about your phone

Now, the key stuff for us is in the serving cell measurement right here

Now, our signal strength lives right here. RSRP0. You can see we are at minus 108

In this case, since it's a minus figure, the lower the number, the better the signal

You can see it fluctuating a little bit. This is LTE, this is on the Rogers network

RSRP1 represents the next closest cell tower. The thing to do now is to install the enhanced Tech Armor screen protector

and see if it can boost that up at all. Still minus 117 115 Nothing like a nice fresh display

It actually is pretty easy to install Part of that is because it doesn't attempt to go around the curve

Alright, so the screen protector is installed now Let's launch back in

Minus 109 Let's let it update here Give it a second Minus 107? Minus 106? Alright so we're at the same benchmark right now

We're where we... minus 105! Minus 107. Mmm... minus 105. Again, minus 107

So, I mean very marginal. Like the other one was minus 106 and then minus 109

Okay fine, let's try and hold it. Does it need to be touching your face or something

There's a patented layer that redirects potentially harmful radiation up, out, and away from your body to lessen exposure

This process creates a stronger usable signal from your smartphone which can extend battery life by up to 40%

But in what circumstance? What like perfect circumstance would you need to take advantage of that

Because my signal strength is at minus 116 right now and that's worse

There obviously some issues here that may extend beyond the capabilities of this screen protector If we don see an improvement in signal strength then we also can necessarily buy the claims that we going to get this battery life improvement Without the better signal strength you not going to get the better battery life

And then you also got to bring into question the whole radiation silent threat scenario

What exactly is this extra layer doing? Now, as a screen protector it's pretty nice, easy to install and it is a 9H tempered glass

I'm guessing that what they did is create some perfect scenario to get their numbers in testing

But this is the real world. It actually appears to get worse when I'm holding it. Go and check this for yourself

Type that code into your iOS device and see what kind of reception you're working with

Look, if this screen protector is doing anything, it doesn't appear to be doing anything

I don't necessarily buy into the other claims. Your results may vary. If you had a different experience with this, I'd be interested in knowing about it

But as of right now, I'm saying it's just a screen protector. It's a half decent screen protector

I'm gonna say probably skip this one based on these initial findings. If anything comes up and I notice some sort of change, I'll let you know

Okay, there you have it. I gotta tell you the truth here, okay? I gotta give you the evidence

And that's what it is. TechArmor, you wanna reach out? Send me an email and say, look, here's where it improves

You're in the park. It's a full moon, cumulus clouds, foliage. Then you see the improvement

You wanna let me know? You let me know. I'll give you a chance, okay? Okay? There it is. The truth shall set you free