Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprises a first portion comprising a user interface. Further, the apparatus comprises a second portion comprising an input device. The apparatus comprises a rotatable mechanism configured to rotatably move the first portion and the second portion over a pivot axis to align the first portion and a second portion in a horizontal or vertical position.

Abstract: A handheld device has a first body part with a first user interface element and a second body part with a second user interface element, and a link mechanism configured to interconnect the first body part and the second body part movably by a user between a first configuration and a second configuration. The first body part and the second body part being stacked in a first order in the first configuration and in a second order opposite to the first order in the second configuration. Each body part has a user interface on its upper surface so that either one can be exposed to a user by changing between the first and second configurations.

Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus, comprising a first housing comprising a display, a second housing comprising at least one speaker; the second housing being movably attached to the first housing, the first housing and said second housing being configured to provide a first operable position and a second operable position, and the at least one speaker being outward facing in said first operable position and said second operable position is disclosed.

Abstract: A handheld electronic device including a body, wherein said body includes at least a portion which is deformable by the application of a squeezing force by a user's hand whereby the deformable portion is moved between a first un-deformed position and a second deformed position.

Abstract: A mobile communication station including a camera and having a grip for being gripped by a user during use of the communication station, the grip having a first compact configuration and a second configuration in which the grip is expanded relative to the first configuration to improve the grip of the user on the communication station when the grip is in the second expanded configuration.

Abstract: A communications system operates in a cellular communications network. The system includes user equipment having a first communications port. The user equipment is arranged to operate a application and a card for accessing options on the user equipment applications. The card includes a storage element storing information relating to the application in a form readable by the port. The user equipment is arranged to receive the card-stored information via the first communications port. The storage element information allows a user to access an option in the application in dependence on the stored information. A visual display element is arranged to display information dependent on the information representative of the option.

Abstract: A portable electronic device comprising a service provision unit capable of providing a service to a user, a communication unit capable of receiving authorisation data from an authorisation device and a validation unit capable of analysing the received authorisation data to determine whether it meets a validation requirement and being arranged to inhibit provision of the service by the service provision unit if the authorisation data does not meet the validation requirement, the communication unit being arranged to receive authorisation data from the authorisation device and the validation unit being arranged to analyse the received authorisation data whenever the communication unit and the authorisation device are capable of communicating with each other.

Abstract: A handheld electronic device including a body, wherein said body includes at least a portion which is deformable by the application of a squeezing force by a user's hand whereby the deformable portion is moved between a first un-deformed position and a second deformed position.

Abstract: A hand-held electronic device comprising a body housing electronic circuitry and one or more push buttons disposed on an outer surface of said body, wherein the one or more push buttons are moveable in the plane of the surface, whereby the position of the one or more push buttons on the body of the device can be changed.