Sentence examples for click wheel from inspiring English sources
noun
The combination button-and-scroll-wheel selection device of some iPods.
Guess it depends on what you mean by "click wheel".
UPDATE Bang & Olufsen fans scolded me for implying that the click wheel idea originated on the iPod.
Why, I wrote, did it take so long for an iPod-style click wheel to show up on a phone?
Operating this expensive radio is clumsy, though, thanks to the two-line display and an awkward click wheel.
The prototype really was an iPod with a phone radio that used the iPod click wheel as a dialer.
Music-player companies have struggled for years to come up with a controller as good as the iPod's click wheel; Microsoft, in Zune 2.0, has finally done it.
"My BeoCon 6000 cordless phone has had a click wheel since 1998!" one wrote, "when the iPod was just a gleam in Steve Jobs's eye!" Well, sort of.
Finally, you can browse a list of recommendations that Yahoo calculates on the songs you've rated highly using the Sansa's click wheel.
You may be able to forgive that loss of efficiency, however, when you discover what's inside the number ring: an iPod-like click wheel.
The iPod design inspiration continues with the white "click wheel," which is actually four compass-point buttons (not a true dial).
No longer can they use a click wheel to sample songs from Miley Cyrus, Nas, Black Sabbath, John Coltrane and the Scissor Sisters within minutes.
