I just gotta say, these guys surprised me. I wasn’t expecting much at all from something that made a word plural with a ‘z’, but they’re actually pretty decent.

I got two different kinds of ‘guardz’ from them — iPod Nano full face and Nintendo DS. The Nano ‘guardz’ fit nicely, though there’s a bit of an irritating bubbling issue around the wheel — but that’s just fine by me. It’s hard to get something to smooth over perfectly when it’s smoothing over something that isn’t staying put to begin with.

The other set, the DS ones, I couldn’t do anything with them until just a few days ago. I discovered that they weren’t sized properly at all — the big ones were too big for both the top and the bottom screens, and the little ones were just too damned little.

So…I emailed them, explaining the problem, and not really expecting much of anything. I didn’t even tell them who I was, or give them an order number.

Smart bastards they were — they looked up my order based on my email address, and sent me a new set of DS ‘guardz’. These arrived today, and they fit much better. Yay.

I’ll probably be looking to see what else I can pair up with the PSP guardz I’m going to buy. Too bad they don’t work on that little Palmtop thing Gremlin has, or I could custom-order some for that.

So, um, feel free to shop at screenguardz.com, if you want to take my word on it, or whatever. They’ve expanded their ‘guardz’ inventory since my last visit — more phones and whatnot. If you’ve got something with a screen these things will work on [they’re static-cling, so no sticky residue, but also, no workee on things like laptops], you should really look into something very much like this, because a scratched screen is a sad screen…and a really irritated screen-viewer.

Or something….