Patent ID: 8410915

Claim:
A portable terminal device, comprising: a communication unit which performs a noncontact IC card communication; a vibration alert unit which notifies a user by vibration that said communication unit is performing said noncontact IC card communication; and a control unit which performs the control to suppress said vibration of said vibration alert unit so that said vibration of said vibration alert unit does not affect a communication state of said communication unit, wherein said control unit causes said vibration alert unit to perform a vibrating operation for a predetermined period of vibration time and stop the vibrating operation for a predetermined period of intermission time, thereby performing an intermittent operation, and said control unit instructs said vibration alert unit so that said predetermined period of vibration time of said intermittent operation is shorten to equal to or more than the time in which said user can recognize said vibration, and equal to or less than the time in which the portable terminal device itself does not move due to said vibration.