Abstract: The invention relates to improving the functions and applicability of a mobile station (201), (301), (401). Advantageous embodiments of the invention include a method in which graphic information may be input to a terminal equipment via a touch-sensitive writing pad and at the same time presented on a display in parallel with the independent execution of other functions, and a portable terminal equipment according to the method, which comprises a voice communicator (for text and file storage and transmission functions) and a display for presenting visual information as well as a graphic writing pad for entering input data in graphic format to the terminal equipment. In a communicator according to an embodiment of the invention a video terminal may be used in the information input simultaneously as a graphic writing pad and a display of the video terminal. The invention enables deaf and dumb people to communicate and take part in a video conference, for example.