Patent ID: 8750495

Claim:
A telephone apparatus comprising: a phone body that has a cradle port formed in a sloped front side of the phone body to charge a battery in an earpiece, a lower end of a slope which contacts a horizontal surface when the phone body is mounted in a horizontal surface mount mode, an upper end of the slope which contacts a vertical surface when the phone body is mounted in a vertical surface mount mode, and a supporting leg mounting section provided on a sloped back side between the lower end and the upper end of the slope; and a supporting leg that is placed on the supporting leg mounting section of the phone body so as to be turnable around a pivot, wherein the pivot is oriented in a perpendicular direction relative to the surface of the sloped back side; the supporting leg has a mounting surface that becomes substantially parallel to the lower end face of the slope of the phone body in the horizontal surface mount mode and that becomes substantially parallel to the upper end face of the slope of the phone body in the vertical surface mount mode, the angle of the cradle port of the phone body remaining substantially constant regardless of whether the phone body is in the horizontal surface mount mode or in the vertical surface mount mode.