How supersensitive screens get touch-y (Smartphones Unlocked)
For all of your smartphone-owning life, you've been told you can't use your expensive device while wearing gloves, no matter how low the mercury plummets. You weren't really sure why, you just knew it wasn't going to happen.
And so rocketed sales of fingerless gloves, conductive gloves, and even conductive thread for those brave (or thrifty!) enough to hack their own touch-screen hand coverings.
Then something wonderful happened that obliterated this sad certainty of specialty winterwear dependence forever, and that was Nokia.
Starting with the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820, the industry got a … Read more