clickwheel

Yeah, a larger screen sounds good, but the clickwheel is a good thing, and not to be abandoned, Lisa-style, for something that mostly just offers newness.

The video iPod is coming? 2006

In his words, the wooden clickwheel ended up being just as responsive as the original plastic clickwheel.

Wood iPod Puts Nature In the Palm Of Your Hand | Inhabitat 2009

With the use of his trusty Dremel tool, he retooled a hardwood cover out of Australian Red Cedar and a clickwheel out of Camphor Laurel.

Wood iPod Puts Nature In the Palm Of Your Hand | Inhabitat 2009

The crafting of the clickwheel seems to be the most impressive aspect of the project.

Wood iPod Puts Nature In the Palm Of Your Hand | Inhabitat 2009

The new model has shed the trademark Nano clickwheel in favor of touch navigation.

First Look: The iPod Nano loses its mojo 2010

The new model has shed the trademark Nano clickwheel in favor of touch navigation.

First Look: The iPod Nano loses its mojo 2010

But with an unresponsive clickwheel, its utility as a portable music player was rather more limited.

Seriously, Apple 2007

Searching Wikipedia on the iPod is a bit of a chore (you have to type out your words with the clickwheel), but once you get used to it it feels pretty good to carry Wikipedia in your pocket.

The 20 Best iPod Utilities | Lifehacker Australia 2007

It had been obvious when the problem first appeared (after I tried resets and other such things) that it was basically sound, but that there was some sort of hardware issue with the clickwheel.

Seriously, Apple 2007

They built a prototype of a phone, embedded on an iPod, that used the clickwheel as a dialer, but it could only select and dial numbers — not surf the Net.

The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry By Fred Vogelstein 2008