Patent ID: 7050767

Claim:
A mobile computing device comprising: a first housing; computing circuitry within the first housing; a display that is configured to visually display information from the computing circuitry to a user, wherein the display is at least partially disposed within the first housing; a second housing that is rotationally coupled to the first housing through an intermediate region of each of the first and second housings; a first user interface device that is at least partially disposed within the second housing; a second user interface device that is at least partially disposed within the second housing on an opposite side of the intermediate region of the second housing from the first user interface device, and wherein the second housing is configured to be rotated relative to the first housing between a closed position in which the first and second user interface devices are at least partially covered by the first housing and a deployed position in which the first and second user interface devices are at least partially uncovered on opposite lateral sides of the first housing from one another, wherein the computing circuitry is configured to format information according to a wireless communication protocol for communication with a wireless communications network; a switch that is configured to sense whether the second housing is in the closed position relative to the first housing or in the deployed position relative to the first housing and to generate an indication of the sensed position; and a speaker in the first housing, and wherein at least one of the first and second user interface devices in the second housing comprises a speaker, and wherein the computing circuitry is further configured to operate in a music mode in which music data from the wireless communications network is selectively provided to the speaker in the first housing responsive to the switch indicating that the second housing is in the closed position and to provide the music data to the at least one speaker in the second housing responsive to the switch indicating that the second housing is in the deployed position.