Gloves typically do one thing - keep your hands warm. These gloves do one other thing - allow you to keep using your phone or tablet while you're trying to keep your hands warm. This second part, they do a spectacular job at. There are only 'silver tips' on the SilverTips for thumbs, index, and middle fingers, so don't try any crazy eight-finger swipe-swirl gestures with these, it's not happening. But if you're just using them to do normal, practical things on your phone, you get exactly what you asked for. As for the other function - keeping your hands warm - well, they do a pretty good job at that too. They are not the warmest. And their knit design means that wind is going to sneak right in the cracks. But, they do a satisfactory job at keeping your hands warm.

Each glove has large, bright, obnoxious branding which just seems excessive. In an alternate universe perhaps they would've trademarked the silver tips on their SilverTips and built their branding around that instead of large sheepy labels. But in this universe, you get sheep on your hands.

Finally, the wool is possibly the least soft merino I own. That's not to say it isn't soft - they're perfectly comfortable gloves - it's just that there are degrees of soft and these are not the softest of the softs.

All in all a really good glove with a few little dings. I'd probably give them 4.5 stars if that were a possibility, and if they were just a wee bit warmer I'd bump it up to a five, but in this sheep-handed universe, they get a four.

Edit: These lasted one winter, and now there's a hole in the right thumb. I'll probably get more for next winter, as I don't like any of the alternatives. But they're not the toughest gloves in the glove box, know that.