Acoustic input and output devices are made to operate properly according to communication processing. A portable communication terminal includes an acoustic input-output unit including a plurality of acoustic input elements to conduct acoustic inputting and acoustic output elements to conduct acoustic outputting, a communication . processing unit which selectively executes mutually different communication processes using at least one of the elements included in the acoustic input-output unit, an...

A transceiver comprises a vibration motor for vibrating the transceiver itself in order to notice a call to a user. The vibration motor is driven when a receiving unit issues a received signal in a vibration mode. The vibration motor is prohibited, for a specific time, from being driven when the user operates a specific action such as pushing a transmission button. The transceiver can make a recipient pay attention by vibration without disturbing the user attending, for example, a meeting. Since...

A portable telephone using a bone conduction speaker, enabling production of high output without any increase in thickness of a housing of a telephone body and having no problem in use in a noisy environment. In the telephone: a bone conduction speaker (1) is used as a speaker; a concave portion (3) having a diameter larger than that of the bone conduction speaker (1) is provided in a housing (2) of a telephone body; a cushioning material (4) is installed between the inner surface of the concave...

A smart antenna apparatus including a receiving system, one or more beam analysis modules, a control channel monitoring module, a processing system, and a receiving beam switch is provided. The receiving system is operable to receive a plurality of uplink beams, each including traffic signals transmitted by a mobile station. The beam analysis modules are operable to analyze the uplink beams to determine one or more characteristics of each uplink beam. The control channel monitoring module is ope...

A method and system supporting location based services for a mobile electronic device that supports multiple wireless communication technologies. The mobile device contains a resource proxy for dynamically storing a set of resources that are available to the electronic device and that are location specific, e.g., accessible via a point that is near the electronic device. The resource proxy contains a resource table recording the available resources and a gateway table indicating a pathway for re...

A wireless mobile device is adapted to access a wireless network and includes a subscriber identification module (SIM) card slot and a magnetic stripe reader module electrically connected to the SIM card slot and thereby to the wireless mobile phone. The magnetic stripe reader module is adapted to receive and read information stored in a magnetic stripe and transmit this information to an entity through the wireless mobile device and the wireless network. The wireless mobile device of this inven...

Disclosed is a technology associated with booting up a mobile communication terminal equipped with a user identification module (UIM).A method of improving the boot speed of a mobile communication terminal equipped with a UIM according to the present invention includes: a) handing over controllership, by a user interface (UI) task responsible for an initial UI process, to a UIM task in a process of reading a phonebook stored in the UIM during booting; b) setting parameters necessary for reading ...

A mobile communications device may incorporate a hold routine to hold incoming calls for a period of time, and allow a user to answer the call at his convenience. The hold indicator, such as a single ring or a vibration, to show that the mobile communications device is in the hold mode. Using the hold mode, mobile communications may be used in situations wherein it is difficult to accept a call immediately, by delaying the initiation of the conversation between the caller and the user for the pr...

A wireless terminal having a dual band antenna arrangement which comprises a planar inverted-F antenna (10) having a first (12) for signals in a first, lower frequency band, for example the GSM band, a second feed (14) for signals in a second, higher frequency band, for example the DCS band, and a ground pin (16). A first coupling stage (26A) couples the transmit and receive paths of a first transceiver (GSM) to the first feed and a second coupling stage (26B) couples the transmit and receive pa...

A system and method implements optimal task partitioning between a general purpose processor (GPP) and a digital signal processor (DSP) to replace a fixed function ASIC solution with an OMAP software solution to implement a 3G phone that uses OMAP and requires MIDI synthesis, yielding a reduced system cost.