Patent ID: 7412261

Claim:
A portable telephone comprising: a telephone body with a fixed shape having a frontal face, a rear face and spaced lateral edges, the telephone body comprising manipulative buttons, a speaker, a microphone, and a first liquid crystal display formed on the frontal face of the telephone body on which characters and symbols related to telephone function can be displayed, a swingable plate connected by a hinge to one of the lateral edges of said body, and a second liquid crystal display formed in and disposed on the swingable plate, wherein the second crystal display will be in an exposed position to face backwards when the plate is in a closed position folded back in a close contact with the rear face of the telephone body, and the swingable plate is capable of pivoting forwards from the closed position to an open position so that the second display faces the same direction as the first display, the manipulative buttons, speaker, and microphone exposed at the frontal face with the swingable plate in each of the closed and open positions, the first and second liquid crystal displays each capable of displaying thereon data from a data source such as the INTERNET, the first and second liquid cystal displays capable of cooperatively defining an extended image area to display data with the swingable plate in its open position.