Patent ID: 7536200
Filing Date: 2009-05-19
Classification: H04B,H04H,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method of rendering audible sound to a user of a hand-held wireless communications device, the method comprising: receiving, in a communications mode, communication signals from a base station in a wireless communications network on a long-range transceiver disposed in a housing of a hand-held wireless communications device; receiving, in a stereo mode, radio signals from a broadcast radio station on a receiver disposed in the housing of the hand-held wireless communications device; selective enabling first and second longitudinally-spaced speakers disposed in the housing at opposite ends of the hand-held wireless communications device to render the received radio signals as audible sound when the hand-held device is in the stereo mode; selectively enabling third and fourth speakers disposed in the housing of the hand-held wireless communications device when the hand-held device is in the stereo mode, and rendering the radio signals through the enabled speakers as stereo sound; disabling the second speaker when the hand-held wireless communications device is in the communications mode, the second speaker being disposed proximate a microphone; sampling the received radio signals; and balancing a load on the first, second, third, and fourth speakers based on the sampled signals when the device is in the stereo mode.