Patent ID: 7741810

Claim:
A cradle for a portable terminal, the cradle comprising: a base unit; a cradling unit assembled directly to one side of the base unit for mounting a housing of the portable terminal and for rotating the portable terminal about a rotary axis extending perpendicularly to the one side of the base unit to reverse a front face and a rear face of the housing in order to view one of the front face and the rear face of the housing according to a rotating position of the cradling unit; at least one cover member pivotally connected to the base unit for at least one of opening and closing one of the first face and the rear face; a first display device mounted on the front face of the housing: a second display device mounted on the rear face of the housing, the second display device being larger than the first display device; and sensors for detecting whether the first display device and the second display device are one of opened and closed.