Patent ID: 7907978

Claim:
A mobile terminal, comprising: a control unit; a display unit; an upper housing including a through cutting in an edge portion; a lower housing; a 2-axis hinge unit coupling the housings for folding and swinging movement of the upper housing relative to the lower housing about intersecting axes, one of which is arranged in the lower housing and the other of which is arranged in the upper housing; and a position detection means for detecting relative positions between the upper housing and the lower housing, wherein a top face of the one of the axes is exposed outside the terminal for viewing due to arranging the one of the axes in the through cutting of the upper housing in all positions of the upper housing, and an information input device is mounted in the top face of one of the axes; the information input device is a pointing device, upon the position detection means detecting the housings being overlaid with the display unit facing outside, the control unit assigns a predetermined function to the information input device and the control unit enables an inputting operation of the information input device.