Patent ID: 7469156

Claim:
A portable information terminal comprising: a body including a first body and a second body; a slide mechanism for coupling the first body and the second body to be slidable towards or away from each other in one direction; a camera unit for taking an image; an operation switch unit; and a display section that displays the image to be taken, wherein, the slide mechanism couples the first body and the second body so as to take a first state where the body is shortened in a width direction by sliding the first body towards the second body, or a second state where the body is extended in the width direction by sliding the first body away from the second body, the body in the first state has a thin and flat appearance that a dimension of the body in a height direction is larger than a dimension of the body in a depth direction and a dimension of the body in the width direction is larger than the dimension in the height direction, and the display section is arranged on a front surface of the first body facing away from the second body, the camera unit includes a picture taking window mounted on a backside surface of the first body and exposed from the second body in the first state, the operation switch unit includes a shutter switch, where is arranged on a side surface of the second body to operate the camera unit in the first state.