Patent ID: 7941116

Claim:
A mobile wireless communications device comprising: a portable housing having a top and bottom; a circuit board carried by said portable housing and comprising a ground plane; wireless communications circuitry carried by said circuit board; and an antenna assembly carried by a surface of said housing and comprising a flexible substrate including a wrap-around portion adjacent the bottom of said portable housing, an electrically conductive antenna element on said flexible substrate and connected to said wireless communications circuitry and said ground plane, including portions of said electrically conductive antenna element being on said wrap-around portion adjacent the bottom of said portable housing, and at least one pair of floating, electrically conductive director elements on opposite sides of said flexible substrate for directing a beam pattern of said antenna element and each having a generally elongate shape extending vertically outwardly away from said electrically conductive antenna element from the bottom of said portable housing toward the top, with a lower end laterally adjacent the antenna element.