Patent ID: 7057605

Claim:
A portable communicator comprising: a wireless communication device that is wirelessly connected to a public communication channel and conducts transmission and reception through the public communication channel; a computer that outputs control commands to the wireless communication device, enters data from said public communication channel through said wireless communication device or transmits data to said public communication channel through said wireless communication device; a first and a second displays that show predetermined images sent by the computer; a power controller that provides power from a storage battery to said first display when an on-switch is operated to output an on-signal, which activates the first display wherein input and output take place using the first display and that puts the first display on standby when an off-switch is operated to output an off-signal; and a housing that contains said wireless communication device, said computer and said display assembled therein, wherein said computer comprises: a power capacity determination device that detects the power capacity of said storage battery irrespective of the operated action of said on and off switches; a power capacity display device that shows on said second display the power capacity determined by said power capacity determination device; a determination device for a standby-for-reception status determining whether or not said wireless communication device is in the standby-for-reception status; and a display device for an operation condition showing a waiting-for-reception condition on said second display when the determination device for the standby-for-reception determines that said wireless communication device is in the standby-for-reception status.