Wrist-worn phone and body-worn data storage device

#This invention relates to a phone and an electronic data storage device which can be worn on the body, and more particularly relates to a phone that can be used as comfortably as a handheld phone and to an electronic data storage device with simplified connection to a USB port of a computer.

#Mobile telephones also commonly referred to as cell phones are becoming smaller and smaller all the time. The miniaturization of circuits is now allowing engineers the ability to package mobile phones in ever more compact sizes. Mobile telephones in the size and shape of a wristwatch are now possible.

#Most small mobile phones on the market today allow the usage of a hands-free headset that plugs into a jack in the phone and then attaches around or into the ear. Typically along the cord or on an extension boom projecting downward from the earpiece is a microphone. This is necessary to improve the sound pickup from the mouth of the user.

#Referring to the exemplary drawings wherein like elements are numbered alike in the several FIGS.:

#FIG. 1 is a front plan view of a wristwatch phone;

#FIG. 2 is a side view of the wristwatch phone of FIG. 1;

#Referring to FIG. 1, a wristwatch phone 10 is shown having a body 11, a main housing 12, a first strap 14 attached to a first end 16 of the main housing 12, and a second strap 18 attached to a second end 20 of the main housing 12. The first strap 14 and the second strap 18 could be two separate straps, or alternatively the first strap 14 and the second strap 18 could be a single contiguous strap with the main housing 12 positioned thereon. The first strap 14 may include a buckling device 22 positioned on an outer end 24 of the first strap 14. The buckling device 22 may cooperate with openings 28 positioned adjacent an outer end 26 of second strap 18. It is also within the scope of this invention to utilize alternative devices for securing the outer ends 24 and 26 together to form a loop suitable for surrounding a user's wrist. Although the term “wristwatch phone” is used, it should be understood that the phone 10 may or may not have time keeping capabilities, and therefore may be more broadly described as a “wrist-worn” phone 10.

#The main housing 12 of the wristwatch phone 10 preferably includes a display 43 on a front surface 32 of the housing 12 and a series of actuating push buttons such as buttons 30 to activate and deactivate the phone as well as to perform timekeeping functions such as setting time of day. The main housing 12 may further preferably incorporates a time keeping circuit for performing conventional watch functions, a radio transceiver designed to provide two-way mobile telephone communication, and a power supply, as will be further described below. Alternatively, the phone 10 may be designed such that it does not include time keeping capabilities.

#The strap 18 further preferably includes a microphone 50, shown in phantom, which may be placed adjacent the outer end 26. Although the openings 28 are shown as positioned between the microphone 50 and the outer end 26, the microphone 50 could be placed anywhere along the length of the strap 18 as is deemed appropriate for use, such as two to four inches away from the housing 12. Embedded within the strap 18 may be one or two conductors 52 which serve as audio leads to connect the microphone 50 to the transceiver in the housing 12. Alternatively, the microphone 50 could be wireless.