New for this 2012 season is the Aglove Grip Touch (Retail $29.99 at www.aglove.com) - The material is an acrylic/silver yarn combination with 15% silver/acrylic nylon blend. Like the Sport model, the Aglove Grip Touch comes in black with silver speckles only.
Like its predecessors, the ENTIRE glove is made with the conductive material, so that means that you can use all 10 fingers on your device. In look, and thickness of material, the Grip Touch seems nearly identical to my pair of Aglove Sports with the notable exception of small, rubber, grip dots on the palm and fingers, making the Grip Touch hand specific (right and left).
An important functional detail is that the grip dots are not on the upper third of fingers (ie - finger tip areas) giving a smooth, gliding touch to the screen.
Since my iphone has a case with a silicone rubber case (otterbox defender) I never really noticed how slippery the Aglove sport was when using just a "bare" iphone. Its pretty slippery, and if you don't have a case, you'll really like the grip of the Grip Touch, and definitely worth the extra cash for the security of your $500 iphone (replacement cost) not slipping out of your hands. Also, opening doors, holding the steering wheel, and any other smooth object is much...more secure feeling.
As for usability, the Grip Touch excels. For this year, I've added a new usability test (see Touchscreen glove shootout). In order to the test the sensitivity of the Grip Touch when compared to bare fingers (and other gloves) I did the following with my iphone. From the home screen:
Hit 'clock' icon > start stopwatch at 0:00 > hit 'home' button > hit 'notepad' icon > type the entire Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme > hit 'home' button > Hit 'clock' icon > stop the stopwatch
Multiple trials were done and the times averaged. Here are the results, from best to worst:
- With bare fingers (using thumbs only) was an average time of 1 min and 6 seconds.
- With the Grip Touch (using thumbs only) was an average time of 1 min and 12 seconds. (Note: times with the year old Aglove Sport were nearly identical to the brand new Grip Touch showing very little, if any degradation from time and wear).
- With brand new TNF eTip gloves (using thumbs only) was an average time of 1 min and 20 seconds.
- With year old iTap gloves was an average time of 1 min and 40 seconds (Note: I suspect that brand new iTap gloves would have scored better as there is a noticeable decrease in sensitivity of these gloves.)
Bottom line: Like all the other Aglove products, the Grip Touch has excellent fit, and touch screen sensitivity. While pushing the $30 mark, the added Grip Touch make these gloves much more functional, without compromising touch screen sensitivity, making the added cost, in my opinion worth it.
Like its predecessors, the ENTIRE glove is made with the conductive material, so that means that you can use all 10 fingers on your device. In look, and thickness of material, the Grip Touch seems nearly identical to my pair of Aglove Sports with the notable exception of small, rubber, grip dots on the palm and fingers, making the Grip Touch hand specific (right and left).
An important functional detail is that the grip dots are not on the upper third of fingers (ie - finger tip areas) giving a smooth, gliding touch to the screen.
Since my iphone has a case with a silicone rubber case (otterbox defender) I never really noticed how slippery the Aglove sport was when using just a "bare" iphone. Its pretty slippery, and if you don't have a case, you'll really like the grip of the Grip Touch, and definitely worth the extra cash for the security of your $500 iphone (replacement cost) not slipping out of your hands. Also, opening doors, holding the steering wheel, and any other smooth object is much...more secure feeling.
As for usability, the Grip Touch excels. For this year, I've added a new usability test (see Touchscreen glove shootout). In order to the test the sensitivity of the Grip Touch when compared to bare fingers (and other gloves) I did the following with my iphone. From the home screen:
Hit 'clock' icon > start stopwatch at 0:00 > hit 'home' button > hit 'notepad' icon > type the entire Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme > hit 'home' button > Hit 'clock' icon > stop the stopwatch
Multiple trials were done and the times averaged. Here are the results, from best to worst:
- With bare fingers (using thumbs only) was an average time of 1 min and 6 seconds.
- With the Grip Touch (using thumbs only) was an average time of 1 min and 12 seconds. (Note: times with the year old Aglove Sport were nearly identical to the brand new Grip Touch showing very little, if any degradation from time and wear).
- With brand new TNF eTip gloves (using thumbs only) was an average time of 1 min and 20 seconds.
- With year old iTap gloves was an average time of 1 min and 40 seconds (Note: I suspect that brand new iTap gloves would have scored better as there is a noticeable decrease in sensitivity of these gloves.)
Bottom line: Like all the other Aglove products, the Grip Touch has excellent fit, and touch screen sensitivity. While pushing the $30 mark, the added Grip Touch make these gloves much more functional, without compromising touch screen sensitivity, making the added cost, in my opinion worth it.
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