Patent ID: 7957765

Claim:
A wireless mobile telecommunications device, comprising: a device body; a device user interface; a device electrical connector; a camera detachable from the device body, the camera including a first wireless personal area network (WPAN) transceiver, and a battery in electrical communication with a camera electrical connector; a second WPAN transceiver in the device body for wirelessly communicating digital signals with the first WPAN transceiver in the camera; transceiver circuitry for communicating air interface signals with a wireless mobile telecommunications network; digital control circuitry coupled to the user interface and analog transceiver circuitry, the digital control circuitry comprising processing logic programmed or configured to: control telephone calls with the wireless mobile telecommunications network; and control WPAN communication of digital signals representing images with the camera, wherein settings and configurations for the camera may be entered on the device body and transmitted from the device body to the camera through the first WPAN transceiver and the second WPAN transceiver, wherein the battery is charged from the device electrical connector through the camera electrical connector.