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US 7,031,761 B2Granted
Cellular radio telephone
AssigneeVertu Limited
InventorsLisa Hunt, Simon Furmidge, Mark Hutchison, Peter Ashall, Nigel Cridland
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Abstract
A two part cellular radio telephone in which a separable part is charged from a cellular transceiver portion.
Claims2
A cellular radio telephone having an audio input device and an audio output device with which a user can communicate in a cellular radio telephone network, comprising:
- a cellular transceiver portion comprising cellular radio transceiver circuitry for communicating in the cellular radio telephone network and a first low power wireless transceiver, wherein the cellular transceiver portion is housed in an ornamental housing customized to a user's specification at manufacture;
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- a user input/output portion comprising the audio input device and the audio output device and a second low power wireless transceiver for communicating with the first low power wireless transceiver of the cellular transceiver portion, wherein the first and second low power wireless transceivers enable a user to communicate using the audio input and output devices in the cellular radio telephone network when the cellular transceiver portion and the user input/output portion are physically separated and wherein the user input/output portion is electrically charged via the cellular transceiver portion.
A cellular radio telephone having an audio input device and an audio output device with which a user can communicate in a cellular radio telephone network, comprising:
- a cellular transceiver portion comprising cellular radio transceiver circuitry for communicating in the cellular radio telephone network and a first low power wireless transceiver;
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- a user input/output portion comprising the audio input device and the audio output device and a second low power wireless transceiver for communicating with the first low power wireless transceiver of the cellular transceiver portion, wherein the first and second low power wireless transceivers enable a user to communicate using the audio input and output devices in the cellular radio telephone network when the cellular transceiver portion and the user input/output portion are physically separated and wherein the user input/output portion is electrically charged via the cellular transceiver portion, wherein the user input/output portion is housed in an ornamental housing customised to a user's specification at manufacture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.