Portable telephone capable of increasing facility of operation

This invention relates to a portable telephone which transmits data having at least one of a voice signal and an image datum which are radio signals to a communicating device through a base station, and which receives the data having at least one of the voice signal and the image datum from the communicating device through the base station. In a portable telephone which transmits and receives data having at least one of a voice signal and an image datum which are radio signals, the controlling device controls an amplifier so that a user can hear, at a first state that an ear is not near to a speaker, the voice from the speaker when the data from a base station includes a discrimination datum which represents the image datum. The controlling device controls the amplifier so that the user can hear, at a second state that the ear is near to the speaker, the voice from the speaker when the data from the base station does not include the discrimination datum which represents the image datum.