Touch screen gloves

[Oldspice]

Spit on your finger

Did you watch the same film i did

 

[Oldspice]

Still the same answer....pull over, stop and have a good look at the map, instead of letting it distract you (after all, you are one of the most vulnerable road users out there.) Even when hiking, if I want of find out where I am, I stop, get the map out, work out where I am, work out where I want to be, then continue. GPS on a bike, on the move, is a recipe for disaster. Too many people are relying on gadgets and losing basic skills. Do you just blindly follow the machine when it directs you to Gibraltar?

Car drivers use GPS, without stopping......just saying

 

[MrJamie]

Wetting a fingertip slightly usually works pretty well, dab your tongue then the screen

 

[Zakalwe]

And to change the display from average speed, to maximum speed, to hill gradient, to whatever..? I don't see the necessity to stop for that kind of thing, every single Garmin user in the world manages just fine doing it on the fly.

 

[Lanzecki]

Rule 5 applies here. Why are you using gloves?

 

[ufkacbln]

I just poke the phone into my nose if it rings. Unlocking it is a bit of a drag sometimes though. Perhaps hang a stylus from the bars and jab that in when necessary.

"App Writer" Stylus - looks like a small plectrum, and either plugs into the headphone socket or replace the attachment it comes with and attach with fishing linr to the handlebar

 

[Mike Alexander]

Spit on your finger

Wetting a fingertip slightly usually works pretty well, dab your tongue then the screen

I do that with the thin, full-finger gloves I wear when it's fine and the temperature is around 5-10°C, but I doubt it would work with thick – and ideally waterproof – gloves when it's colder or raining.

 

[Mike Alexander]

Rule 5 applies here. Why are you using gloves?

At least I'm adhering to Rule #9!

 

[machew]

What about rule 74?

 

[2Loose]

Should have got a Lumia...
Seriously though, I can see the glove friendly screen of the Nokia Lumia range as being a far more important feature than people realise. Give it a winter...

Nice to know about the Greggs\Walkers trick though.

 

[Zakalwe]

I'd imagine eating a back of crisps wearing winter gloves would be even harder than using an iPhone.

 

[Mike Alexander]

What about rule 74?

Unfortunately, Rule 74 isn't the only one I don't comply with…

 

[fossyant]

Get a proper GPS for the bike - really.

How do you manage when it's hissing it down, as smart phones don't like the wet ?

 

[Mike Alexander]

How do you manage when it's hissing it down, as smart phones don't like the wet ?

It's in a Wahoo waterproof case that also includes an ANT+ receiver.

 

[fossyant]

Think I'd still stick with a pukka GPS (705 and 200 here) as my HTC eats batteries on GPS.