Had to chuckle at the directions of this thread... Being along the Connecticut River Valley of NH we also have cold, raw mornings/days/nights. Having used the voice activated calling with my prior phones, I have the Storm set to work nearly 100%. Gloves/mittens...great for when I'm on my Kubota plowing my driveways but not while I'm driving on the highway. My driving gloves work great when I ran high speed autocross events and now while riding my bike but street driving... I think not.