Cellular telephone and personal digital assistant
View Patent ↗The handheld personal electronic device has a first body having a display, a second body having a plurality of manual inputs, the second body capable of attachment to the first body, the personal electronic device having an open position wherein the display of the first body and the manual inputs of the second body are accessibly exposed. And, the personal electronic device having a closed position wherein the display of the first body is protected by the second body and the manual inputs of the second body are accessibly exposed.
1. A cellular telephone comprising:
a telephone housing including a first body and a second body configured so that said first body slides longitudinally and upwardly between a closed position and an open position relative to said second body, and wherein said housing contains:
1) a cellular telephone module with audio input and output including a cellular telephone transceiver;
2) at least one radio antenna in said housing electrically coupled to said telephone transceiver and to said short range bidirectional radio frequency transceiver;
3) a first short range bidirectional radio frequency transceiver coupled to said audio input and output of said cellular telephone module;
4) a ringer coupled to said cellular telephone and adapted to optionally ring upon occurrence of an incoming call;
5) a vibration module coupled to said cellular telephone module and adapted to optionally vibrate on occurrence of an incoming call;
6) a personal digital assistant module containing a first processor;
7) a display electrically coupled to said cellular telephone module;
8) a first set of input keys electrically coupled to said cellular telephone module;
9) a second set of input keys electrically coupled to said personal digital assistant;
wherein said display is viewable in both said closed and open positions, and wherein at least some of said first or second sets of keys are accessible in both said closed and open positions;
an earpiece adapted to be worn in a person's ear, said earpiece having an external ear canal portion which is fitted to the ear and an ear attachment portion fitted around the ear, said earpiece containing a second processor, said earpiece containing a second short-range radio transceiver;
a second radio antenna in said earpiece electrically coupled to said second short range bidirectional transceiver;
10) executable computer instructions running on said first processor adapted to perform voice recognition;
11) executable computer instructions running on said first processor adapted to perform handwriting recognition;
12) executable computer instructions running on said second processor adapted to perform speech enhancement;
wherein said first short range bidirectional radio frequency transceiver couples cellular telephone call information from said cellular telephone to said earpiece.