Folding cellular phone and slide cellular phone
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorYasuhiro Kaneko
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Abstract
A folding cellular phone and a slide cellular phone with excellent usability. A folding cellular phone 1 has a status detection unit 20 which detects whether the folding cellular phone 1 is in a folded status or an opened status, a memory 21 which holds information to respond to an incoming call by opening the folding cellular phone 1, and a control unit 17 which, if an incoming call is detected when the folding cellular phone is in the folded status, in a case where information on the incoming call is stored in the memory, responds to the incoming call if the status detection unit 20 detects that the folding cellular phone has moved to the opened status.
Claims32
A folding cellular phone having a foldable case, comprising:
- a status detection unit that detects whether said case is in a folded status or an opened status;
- and
- a control unit that automatically,
- if an incoming call is detected when said case is in the folded status, determines whether incoming call information specifying a call originator is provided from a network, and
- if said incoming call information specifying a call originator is provided, allows responding to said incoming call in response to detecting that said case has moved to the opened status, and
- if said incoming call information specifying a call originator is not provided, does not allow responding automatically to said incoming call in response to detecting that said case has moved to the opened status.
A folding cellular phone having a foldable case, comprising:
- status detection means for detecting whether said case is in a folded status or an opened status;
- and
- control means for automatically,
- if an incoming call is detected when said case is in the folded status, determining whether incoming call information specifying a call originator is provided from a network, and
- if said incoming call information specifying a call originator is provided, allowing responding to said incoming call in response to detecting that said case has moved to the opened status, and
- if said incoming call information specifying a call originator is not provided, not allowing responding automatically to said incoming call in response to detecting that said case has moved to the opened status.
A slide cellular phone used in a status where a second case which slides with respect to a first case is pulled out, upon communication, comprising:
- a status detection unit that detects whether said second case is in a closed status or a pulled out status;
- and
- a control unit that automatically,
- if an incoming call is detected when said second case is in the closed status, determines whether incoming call information specifying a call originator is provided by a network, and
- if said incoming call information specifying a call originator is provided, allows responding to said incoming call in response to detecting that said second case has moved to the pulled out status, and
- if said incoming call information specifying a call originator is not provided, does not allow responding automatically to said incoming call in response to detecting that said case has moved to the opened status.
A slide cellular phone used in a status where a second case which slides with respect to a first case is pulled out, upon communication, comprising:
- status detection means for detecting whether said second case is in a closed status or a pulled out status;
- and
- control means for automatically,
- if an incoming call is detected when said case is in the closed status, determining whether incoming call information specifying a call originator is provided from a network, and
- if said incoming call information specifying a call originator is provided, allowing responding to said incoming call in response to detecting that said second case has moved to the pulled out status, and
- if said incoming call information specifying a call originator is not provided, not allowing responding automatically to said incoming call in response to detecting that said case has moved to the opened status.
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