CLOSABLE COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a user of a cellular telephone to confirm a caller before responding to an incoming call by a caller ID by providing a selective housing off hook disable function which can open a device without responding to the incoming call. SOLUTION: When there is an incoming call in closed state of a housing, a controller 304 informs a user of the incoming call, compares a caller ID with caller information stored and indicates the state of a device. Then, the controller 304 responds to the incoming call when the housing becomes open state from closed state when there is no input signal and disables the response to the incoming call at the time of open state of the housing when there is the input signal. Subsequently, the controller 304 displays the caller ID when the housing becomes the open state from the closed state, and enables the housing off hook and responds to the call when there are input signals of a side button circuit 308 and a key pad circuit 306.