Patent ID: 7227565

Claim:
A mobile phone comprising: a display unit mounted on a first side of the mobile phone; a first camera unit mounted on the first side of the mobile phone for photographing an image capturing target located at the first side of the mobile phone; a second camera unit mounted on a second side of the mobile phone opposite the first side for photographing an image capturing target located at the second side of the mobile phone; a microphone unit for collecting a voice of a user talking on the mobile phone and sounds arriving from a nearby area; a sound processor unit that is equipped with an amplifier and operates so as to execute amplification and A/D conversion processes on the voice and sounds collected by the microphone unit; a selection unit for selecting one of the first and second camera units; a camera operation control unit for bringing the selected camera unit selected by the selection unit into an activation ready state; and a control unit controlling operation of the amplifier equipped in the sound processor unit differently depending on which of the first and second camera units is selected by the selection unit, such that the amplifier achieves a higher gain when the second camera unit is selected than when the first camera unit is selected.