This is my first winter with a smartphone. On cold days, I might try to pull up my phone to stream some music or podcasts on the drive to work, or maybe just answer a phone call, and I discover, yet again, that my gloves won’t allow me to successfully use my phone. Fortunately, this doesn’t happen very often, because usually I just go without gloves. That’s no real way to make it through winter in comfort, though. PC Mag has a great slideshow of touch-screen friendly gloves.
My wife has a pair of gloves and she really likes them. They’re not the warmest gloves, but if you wear them under a pair of thicker winter gloves, then just slip that outer glove off to type, they’re really useful. They’re also good if you’re going to mostly keep your hands in your pockets but need to occasionally make use of touch screens, like at the grocery store or, well, the phone. Some of the gloves look like real leather, some of them look like standard fitness gloves for runners, and some, like the ones above, just look cute.
Not all of them have conductive metal in all the fingers; most just have the thumb, forefinger, and middle finger. Then again, that’s all you need.
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