Originally Posted by
gregf83
I ride all through the winter with full fingered gloves and don't recall any problems with a Garmin 800 which also has a touchscreen. Most days my gloves aren't terribly thick and some of them have some type of thinner conductive patch on the index finger but I think they all work as the displays Garmin uses are resistive touch screen which are just pressure sensitive. Smartphones use capacitive touch screens which are affected more by gloves.
I use an 800 and have never had a problem with the touch screen. But I live in the PNW where our winters are mild and wet, so a pair of light weight merino gloves does it for me. Mine don't even have the conductive patch, and work every time.