Patent ID: 8135437

Claim:
A cellular phone comprising: a display casing formed with a rectangular display screen on a casing surface; voice outputting means arranged inside said display casing on one end side in a longer direction of said display screen, the voice outputting means being used with a user placing his/her ear against said casing surface; holding means adapted to rotatably hold said display casing in a plane parallel to said display screen such that said display screen is brought into a vertically long state or a horizontally long state; rotating operation detecting means adapted to detect a rotating operation of said display casing by the user; television broadcast receiving means adapted to receive a television broadcast wave; drive voltage supplying means adapted to supply a drive voltage to said television broadcast receiving means; television image displaying means adapted to display a television image on said display screen, the television image being generated on a basis of the received television broadcast wave and rotated according to said rotating operation; and drive voltage supply stopping means adapted to stop a supply of the drive voltage by said drive voltage supplying means on a basis of the rotating operation for making said display screen displaying the television image undergo a transition from the horizontally long state to the vertically long state; wireless communication means adapted to transmit/receive a call signal and a response signal; and incoming call responding means adapted to, on a basis of the rotating operation for making said display screen displaying the television image undergo the transition from the horizontally long state to the vertically long state, generate said response signal to establish a telephone conversion state during a time period during which said call signal can be responded to, wherein said drive voltage supply stopping means stops, on the basis of the rotating operation for making said display screen displaying the television image undergo the transition from the horizontally long state to the vertically long state, the supply of the drive voltage by said drive voltage supplying means during the time period during which said call signal can be responded to, and said television image displaying means has first image rotating means adapted to, on the basis of the rotating operation for making said display screen displaying the television image undergo the transition from the horizontally long state to the vertically long state, rotate the display of the television image with respect to said display screen during a time period other than the time period during which said call signal can be responded to.