Patent ID: 6976916

Claim:
In a hand-held navigation device including a housing elongated along a longitudinal axis of said housing, said housing having sides, a front face, a rear face, a top, and a bottom with respect to the vision of a user when the device is held by the user in a normal upright orientation, said front face being narrow in width transverse to said longitudinal axis and elongated in height along said longitudinal axis between said top and bottom of said housing, said front face having only one input area and only one display area, the improvement comprising: said one input area and said one display area being oriented and arranged along said longitudinal axis with said one input area located proximate said top and located above said one display area and with said one display area located proximate said bottom with respect to the vision of a user when the device is held by the user in the normal upright orientation, said one display area presenting information in a vertical upright direction with respect to the vision of a user such that a top of said information is adjacent to a bottom of said one input area and a bottom of said information is adjacent to said bottom of said housing when the device is held by the user in the normal upright orientation.