Wireless telephone having an improved user interface

A wireless telephone comprising:

• a directory to hold a plurality of entries, each entry having a number and an associated alphanumeric identifier;
• a sorting unit to arrange the entries according to the alphanumeric identifiers and to store the numbers and alphanumeric identifiers, as arranged, in the directory;
• a display to display the alphanumeric identifiers of a plurality of entries or the number and alphanumeric identifier of a single entry;
• a scroller, operable when the display displays alphanumeric identifiers of a plurality of numbers, to scroll up and down through the alphanumeric identifiers such that upon selection of an alphanumeric identifier by a user, a selected entry is chosen and the scroller changes the display to cause the number and alphanumeric identifier of the selected entry to be displayed together;
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• a page changer to change the entry being displayed, pagewise, as arranged in the directory.

A wireless telephone comprising:

• a plurality of telephone function keys;
• a telephone display having an information field and a function field, the function field identifing the function of the function keys, the telephone display having an identifier, the identifier being activated when the function keys have a plurality of functions and being deactivated when the function keys do not have a plurality of functions;
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• a telephone switching key for changing the display in the function field and the function of the function keys.

A wireless telephone, comprising:

• a directory to hold entries, each entry having a predetermined number and an empty place holder;
• a display to request the user to enter a variable number for insertion into the empty place holder, when the entry thereof is accessed;
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• a transmitter to transmit the predetermined number and to transmit the variable number after transmitting the predetermined number,
• the directory further holding entry names, the entry names respectively having associated predetermined numbers and empty place holders, the display displaying the entry names in a list.

A wireless telephone comprising:

• a function setting device for setting a plurality of different parameters;
• a marking device for selectively marking one or more of the different parameters;
• a display to display a list of the one or more different parameters which have been marked;
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• a selector to select a parameter from the list displayed by the display to thereby enable changing the setting of the selected parameter such that the phone can place and receive a plurality of calls operating with the changed parameter.

A wireless telephone comprising:

• a menu list of items corresponding to respective telephone functions;
• a telephone display to display the menu list of items such that each item is displayed together with a label associated therewith;
• a first activation device to visually offset one item from the list of items displayed, to scroll through on the display the list of items with a visual offset moving from item to item with scrolling and to select an item being visually offset upon input from a user to thereby activate the telephone function corresponding to the item selected;
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• a second activation device operable when a user enters the label of an item, to select the item associated with the label entered by the user and thereby activate the telephone function corresponding to the item.

A wireless telephone, comprising:

• a directory to hold entries, each entry having a predetermined number and an empty place holder;
• a display to request the user to enter a variable number for insertion into the empty place holder, when the entry thereof is accessed;
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• a transmitter to transmit the predetermined number and to transmit the variable number after transmitting the predetermined number, the transmitter delaying between transmitting the predetermined number and the variable number, the user determining the length of the delay.

A wireless telephone, comprising:

• a directory to hold entries, each entry having a predetermined number and an empty place holder;
• a separate number directory;
• a display to request the user to enter a variable number for insertion into the empty place holder, when the entry thereof is accessed, the user entering the variable number by accessing the separate number directory;
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• a transmitter to transmit the predetermined number and to transmit the variable number after transmitting the predetermined number.