Motorola Mobility LLC

Sk Teletech Co., Ltd.

Ji Seop Shin

Sung-Gul Hwang

Ho Yeon Won

Sangsoo Park

A portable electronic device including a user interface, a sensor configured to provide an output signal when the device is oriented from resting on a first housing surface portion to resting on a second housing surface portion, and a controller coupled to the user interface and to the sensor, wherein the controller is configured to invoke a mode of operation in response to an output signal from the sensor and wherein the mode of operation is indicated at the user interface.

Portable electronic device with configurable operating mode

The present invention discloses a slide type mobile phone that allows a drastic shortening in length of its main body by making its upper housing and lower housing to slide, using slide module installed inside of the main body of the mobile phone, and comprises at least one slide module which combines the upper and lower housings with each other and enables the upper and lower housings to slide in straight line; and a connecting member which connects electrically the printed circuit board installed in the upper housing and the printed circuit board installed in the lower housing.

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Namyangju-si, South Korea

Ji Seop Shin