Need a simpler way to answer the phone!

The iPhone 4s requires 1 of 2 things to answer a phone call, depedning on whether the phone is locked or not.  If the phone is unlocked, I'm presented with a couple of buttons to accept or reject the call.  If the phone is locked, I'm required to swipe a slider on the display to answer the call.
There are a couple of problems with these UI behaviors.  First, if one has gloves or mittens on, the touch screen doesn't work and one has to take off one's gloves to use the display and answer a call.  The second problems is that in many cases, swiping a slider requires two hands - one to hold the phone and one to swipe the slider.  If the phone isn't locked, the situation is a bit better, since pressing a button on the display can be done one-handed, more easily than moving the slider.  I could set auto-lock to "never" so the slider doesn't come show up, but this also keeps the display on and runs down the battery rather rapidly.  So ideally, I need:
1.  A way to use the Home button to answer calls.  Our iPhones live in Otter Boxes and it takes intent to actually press this button.  It's not easy to do it by accident.
-- OR --
2   A way to auto-dim the display after a set period of time without auto-locking the unit.  This would be a 2nd best solution, since I'd much rather just push the Home button to answer calls.
Maybe there are some apps that can help with this.  Any solutions will be appreciated.

fmouse wrote:
Meg St._Clair wrote:
Was your old phone a touch screen phone?
No.  It was an LG flip-phone.  If it rang, I could just flip it open with one hand and mash it to take a call.  Very handy!
I'm not sure why you expect a touch screen phone to work like a basic flip phone. If that sort of feature is important to you, touch screen phones are not the device for you. It sounds as if you failed to consider what features were important to you and then properly research your phone purchase. While it's possible Apple may add other buttons to the phone in the future, there is no indication that current phones will ever be answerable any other way (the same is true of every Android phone I've used as well, by the way). So, you can either decide that the many other features that an iPhone has that your old LG didn't are worth this small inconvenience or you can return/sell the iPhone and go back to a phone with buttons. You can also try one of the several options for solving your problem that have been offered.

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