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Combination wireless communications device and portable stereo

  • US 7,536,200 B2
  • Filed: 10/22/2004
  • Issued: 05/19/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of rendering audible sound to a user of a hand-held wireless communications device, the method comprising:

  • receiving, in a communications mode, communication signals from a base station in a wireless communications network on a long-range transceiver disposed in a housing of a hand-held wireless communications device;

    receiving, in a stereo mode, radio signals from a broadcast radio station on a receiver disposed in the housing of the hand-held wireless communications device;

    selective enabling first and second longitudinally-spaced speakers disposed in the housing at opposite ends of the hand-held wireless communications device to render the received radio signals as audible sound when the hand-held device is in the stereo mode;

    selectively enabling third and fourth speakers disposed in the housing of the hand-held wireless communications device when the hand-held device is in the stereo mode, and rendering the radio signals through the enabled speakers as stereo sound;

    disabling the second speaker when the hand-held wireless communications device is in the communications mode, the second speaker being disposed proximate a microphone;

    sampling the received radio signals; and

    balancing a load on the first, second, third, and fourth speakers based on the sampled signals when the device is in the stereo mode.

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