Patent ID: 6944484

Claim:
A mobile communication terminal comprising: a first housing; a second housing connected to the first housing so as to be able to set a close state and an open state together with the first housing; a microphone arranged on a first surface of the first housing, which opposes the second housing in the close state; a first speaker arranged on a second surface of the second housing, which opposes the first surface in the close state; a second speaker arranged on an outer surface of the first or second housing, which is exposed in the close state; a detector configured to detect whether the first and second housings are in the close state; and a control section configured to perform a control operation when the detector detects that the first and second housings have been set from the open state to the close state, the control operation: (i) invalidating both the microphone and the first speaker; and either (ii) validating the second speaker when a communication being executed is a one-way communication which is limited to a reception of a forward link signal; or (iii) invalidating the second speaker when the communication being executed is not the one-way communication.