Nokia Mobile Phones Limited

Veli-Matti Maatta

Frank Settemo Nuovo

Gregor Daniel Magnusson

A display system provides a portable telephone with a plurality of distinctive appearances. An overlying cover is removably attachable to a telephone housing which includes operating buttons and an indicia panel. The cover has a primary opening for viewing the indicia panel and secondary openings for free reception therethrough of the operating buttons. A transparent window member includes a first peripheral edge encompassing the outer face and a first recessed peripheral ledge projecting outwardly to a terminal peripheral edge. A collar removably attachable to the cover has an aperture similar in size and shape to the primary opening of the cover and an inner surface with an inner peripheral recess adjacent the aperture for capturing reception of the peripheral ledge of the transparent window member between the collar and the cover so that the transparent window member overlies the indicia panel on the housing. A second outer peripheral edge on the collar defines the extent of the outer face and a second outwardly projecting peripheral ledge is recessed with respect to the outer face thereof. In turn, a fixing collar is removably attachable to the cover and has an aperture sized and shaped for contiguously encompassing the second outer peripheral edge of the collar when attached to the cover and has an inner peripheral recess adjacent the aperture for capturing reception of the second peripheral ledge of the collar between the collar and the cover. The cover, window member, collar and fixing collar may all have distinctive colors.

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Turku, Finland

Veli-Matti Maatta