I once attempted (recently, like, as in today) to try and work my phone with welding gloves on after I'd had them wrapped around a hotter than heck piece of metal.... It didn't work. And I dropped my phone. And scratched/ melted the expensive condom that protects my phone because apparently I also had some hot slag on my finger still... Now I is sad. Now I take off my gloves.
Love the price on the touchscreen gloves, but I wouldn't use them. When I'm wearing gloves (unless leather or football gloves), I'm highly prone to dropping my phone-especially now, since I've upgraded to the enormous Note 4.
I have a pair of much thicker touchscreen gloves that kept my hands nice and warm while using my phone in a blizzard. That was the same day that I learned that my phone battery won't work long in a blizzard.
@moondrake I'm not totally sure how much is the battery & how much is the electronics, I just know my phone kept shutting off until it thawed. This also seems to apply to car remotes stored in the freezer.
I have gloves that are thin enough in some of the fingers to barely kinda work with them on so I usually end up trying to enter my passcode for 5 minutes and then give up and take off my glove and realize I should have done that from the start.
I've used my key, nose, taken the glove off, but this Lumia has the ability to work with the gloves on (conventional leather gloves that predate the iPhone and modern capacitive touch screens).
A lot of the higher end phones have an option to make the screen extra sensitive and can then be used through most normal gloves. This is my preferred method.
@darksaber99999 My best friend still uses a flip phone. He's mostly happy with it, except when I haul out my MotoX and say "Ok google now, directions to (that place we've been driving in circles looking for)" and it promptly tells us how to get there. Or when we decide on a restaurant or store and on the way there I tell it to find a coupon for us to use. This makes him experience Android envy.
I usually don't bother wearing gloves so it's not an issue. I've also been known to shovel snow while wearing shorts so I may not be the best example...
@AltairDusk As long as you don't do it in bare feet. As kids (snow belt) we'd slide down the hill sidewalk in front of our house in bare feet (after throwing water on it) to try to turn the sidewalk into ice. Then we'd run inside and stand on the radiator. Rinse and repeat. Then Sunday morning my dad would put salt on the ice so people wouldn't fall walking to church. Would take us the better part of the week to rebuild the ice so we could then slide down it for fun with boots on.
@AltairDusk Reminds me of when I was a kid in Michigan and the first week out of school in the summer we'd run around on the quartz rock driveways to toughen our feet up so we could go barefoot all summer. And I wonder why I am constantly having to file these callouses off my feet years later.
I pull down my pants and use my...
Hey, this is a trick question.
Missing option for regular (capacitive) stylus.
@davidgro This. Bet my way is more precise than these gloves.
I once attempted (recently, like, as in today) to try and work my phone with welding gloves on after I'd had them wrapped around a hotter than heck piece of metal.... It didn't work.
And I dropped my phone.
And scratched/ melted the expensive condom that protects my phone because apparently I also had some hot slag on my finger still...
Now I is sad.
Now I take off my gloves.
Love the price on the touchscreen gloves, but I wouldn't use them. When I'm wearing gloves (unless leather or football gloves), I'm highly prone to dropping my phone-especially now, since I've upgraded to the enormous Note 4.
I don't go outside, or have friends
I never understood the urgency to use my phone while outside on a day that's cold enough to necessitate gloves. No thanks
Either fingerless gloves or touch gloves.
I have a pair of much thicker touchscreen gloves that kept my hands nice and warm while using my phone in a blizzard. That was the same day that I learned that my phone battery won't work long in a blizzard.
@Kleineleh Doesn't cold make batteries last longer?
@moondrake I'm not totally sure how much is the battery & how much is the electronics, I just know my phone kept shutting off until it thawed. This also seems to apply to car remotes stored in the freezer.
@Kleineleh I had trouble ingressing in Chicago a couple of weeks ago when it was snowing
I got fingerless gloves as a present & use them with my iPad.
I have gloves that are thin enough in some of the fingers to barely kinda work with them on so I usually end up trying to enter my passcode for 5 minutes and then give up and take off my glove and realize I should have done that from the start.
@JonT I have some that are thin enough they work fine.
My meat stylus brings all the girls to the yard.
Resistive touchscreen ftw!
OK Google.
I don't wear gloves, but I have a Lumia 521, so even if I did wear them, I could just do this:
@Al_Coholic i can do that also i have the 520
I've used my key, nose, taken the glove off, but this Lumia has the ability to work with the gloves on (conventional leather gloves that predate the iPhone and modern capacitive touch screens).
@Programmerman Oh yeah, a pack of magic cards actually works pretty well too. Good old mylar.
A lot of the higher end phones have an option to make the screen extra sensitive and can then be used through most normal gloves. This is my preferred method.
Meh. Not a lot of reasons to wear gloves in San Diego.
My flip-phone is years ahead of its time and is compatible with all gloves.
@darksaber99999 My best friend still uses a flip phone. He's mostly happy with it, except when I haul out my MotoX and say "Ok google now, directions to (that place we've been driving in circles looking for)" and it promptly tells us how to get there. Or when we decide on a restaurant or store and on the way there I tell it to find a coupon for us to use. This makes him experience Android envy.
I usually don't bother wearing gloves so it's not an issue. I've also been known to shovel snow while wearing shorts so I may not be the best example...
@AltairDusk As long as you don't do it in bare feet. As kids (snow belt) we'd slide down the hill sidewalk in front of our house in bare feet (after throwing water on it) to try to turn the sidewalk into ice. Then we'd run inside and stand on the radiator. Rinse and repeat. Then Sunday morning my dad would put salt on the ice so people wouldn't fall walking to church. Would take us the better part of the week to rebuild the ice so we could then slide down it for fun with boots on.
@Kidsandliz Wow, that's some serious dedication right there!
@AltairDusk Hey we were dumb. We were young. Our parents didn't stop us from freezing our feet.
@AltairDusk Reminds me of when I was a kid in Michigan and the first week out of school in the summer we'd run around on the quartz rock driveways to toughen our feet up so we could go barefoot all summer. And I wonder why I am constantly having to file these callouses off my feet years later.
have a cheap flip phone. you can push buttons in gloves…any gloves...
Got this off another Kickstarter I backed, which they cleverly timed to ship in the spring. Looking forward to trying it. http://www.nanotips.com/
Definitely use my nose. Usually only to skip/pause tracks or make a phone call, though...