In my experience, wiping screens is the best way to scratch them. I just don't think fatty fingers is the right device for applying commands to a cell phone glass. If you get a call while eating delicious chicken - YUM - how do you answer it? With applying a thick layer of grease, is how The N900 had an grease free alternative, and I think it's a bad thing that this alternative is being removed.

Also, it's mid summer now, so I keep forgetting, but I really, really don't look forward to stylus free, gloves removing phone usage in -15 degrees. That's a flawed input concept, that is.