Patent ID: 8285333

Claim:
A mobile phone comprising: a display case having a rectangular display screen created on a case face; audio output means arranged in said display case on one end side of a longitudinal direction on said display screen and used in a state that a user puts said case face on the user's ear; holding means adapted to rotatably hold said display case within a face of horizontally disposing said display screen so that said display screen should be in a longitudinally extended state and a laterally extended state; rotational operation detection means adapted to detect a rotational operation of said display case by the user; television broadcast reception means adapted to receive a television broadcast wave; television image display means adapted to cause said display screen to display a television image created on the basis of a received television broadcast wave and rotated in accordance with said rotational operation; radio communication means adapted to transmit/receive a call signal and a response signal; and incoming call response means adapted to generate a response signal and to establish a communication state on the basis of a rotational operation to make a transition of said display screen displaying the television image from the laterally extended state to the longitudinally extended state in a period answerable to said call signal, wherein said television image display means has first image rotation means adapted to rotate display of a television image on said display screen on the basis of a rotational operation to make a transition of said display screen displaying the television image from the laterally extended state to the longitudinally extended state when it is not in a period answerable to said call signal.