Abstract: A step counter usable as a pocket paging receiver wherein many parts thereof are used as those of the pocket paging receiver, thereby capable of reducing the cost of manufacture and improving the utility. The step counter includes a control circuit for determining whether input data received in the step counter is data for a radio-paging mode or data for a step-counting mode, storing the input data when the input data is data for the radio-paging mode, sensing the input data as walking data when the input data is data for the step-counting mode, accumulatively counting the number of steps, and storing the resultant value, determining whether the step counter operates in the radio-paging mode or the step-counting mode, and transmitting the stored data corresponding to the determined mode to a display equipped in the step counter.

Abstract: A telephone set capable of selectively accepting callers and enabling partial recognitions of callers is disclosed, and the telephone set includes: tip and ring terminals; a first analogue switch connected to said tip terminal; a first bridge diode connected to the first analogue switch and the ring terminal; a wave rectifying circuit connected to the first bridge diode; a microprocessor connected to the wave rectifying circuit and the first analogue switch; an EEPROM connected to the microprocessor; a hook switch connected to the microprocessor; a selecting switch connected to the microprocessor; a second bridge diode connected to the tip and ring terminals; a hybrid IC circuit connected to the second bridge diode; a DTMF decoder connected to the hybrid IC circuit and the microprocessor; a power supply means for supplying the required power to the internal circuits; and a second analogue switch and a microphone.