Telephone and method of controlling call initiation therein

Abstract

A mobile phone 10 includes an input section 18 that receives a call initiation instruction for a call with another mobile phone M, a speaker 14 that outputs sound from another mobile phone M at the time of the call, a detection section 20 that is arranged in the vicinity of the speaker 14 and detects the distance to a user U, a determination section 22 that determines that a motion to start the call has been made by the user U when the distance detected by the detection section 20 becomes shorter than a predetermined distance after the call initiation instruction is received by the input section 18, and a control section 26 that performs call initiation processing on another mobile phone M on the basis of the call initiation instruction received by the input section 18 when the determination section 22 determines that the motion to start the call has been made.

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