Physical Interface (e.g. buttons, scrollwheels) OEM

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Does anyone know the name of the OEM who produced the ipod click wheel with buttons under the wheel. I think they provide Blackberry with their buttons as well.

For the life of me I can’t remember their name and I can’t find them through googling.

I know i’ve viewed their website in the past.

Can anyone help?

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You need to go back to Google school.

Search for ipod+wheel, the very first result shows the company’s name is Synaptics, gives a cool history about its development, and even shows the internal components:

http://www.mp3.com/story/feature_ipod_wheel.html