Patent ID: 7016491

Claim:
A telephone, comprising: a planar housing; a planar support connected to a lower portion of the planar housing for rotationally supporting the planar housing, said planar housing being rotatable through various angles up to a predetermined angle; a handset having a protruding receiver end portion, a transmitter end portion and a holding portion connecting the protruding receiver end portion to the transmitter end portion; a cantilever beam type cradle for receiving said protruding receiver end portion of said handset, said cantilever beam type cradle being extended from one side of the planar support, wherein said transmitter end portion and a part of said holding portion hang away from said cantilever beam type cradle and do not contact said cantilever beam type cradle; and an angled support connected to the bottom part of the planar support for holding the planar support at a non-horizontal acute angle.