Patent ID: 6459912
Filing Date: 2002-10-01
Classification: H04M,Y10S

Abstract:
A radio apparatus formed as a mobile or cordless telephone, comprising a control screen on which control functions can be called upon and which makes available the control functions of the radio apparatus for dialing and activation; a display device on which a dial menu is shown as a function of a functional scope of a corresponding one of a user-selectable operating mode, wherein each operating mode is defined by a predetermined set of said control functions, and wherein said radio apparatus can be switched between operating modes; and control means providing at least a first and second operating mode, said control means being formed so that all control functions that can be called up in the first operating mode are also activatable in the second operating mode, that in the second operating mode control functions that cannot be called up in the first operating mode are additionally activatable, and that a third operating mode is provided in which control functions that cannot be called up in the first and second operating modes are additionally activatable and in which all of the control functions of the first and second operating modes are also activatable, wherein the first operating mode comprises basic telephone functions, wherein the second operating mode comprises enhanced telephone functions, and wherein the third operating mode comprises further control functions other than the basic and enhanced telephone functions of the first and second operating modes.