A portable telephone, equipped with an opening/closing cover, which houses
an operating part. An operating panel is mounted to a main casing in a
manner enabling movement between a position at the front face side and a
position at the inner side of the main casing, and a compression spring,
which urges this operating panel in the direction of the position at the
front face side of the main casing is equipped. When the opening/closing
cover is at the closed position, the operating panel is positioned at the
position at the inner side of the main casing, and when the
opening/closing cover is opened, the operating panel is moved to the
position at the front face side by the compression spring so that it is
positioned at a position at which the operating surface is substantially
flush with the back face of the opening/closing cover that is positioned
at the opened position. With another aspect of this invention, an
opened/closed condition detection sensor is provided, and in response to
the opening and closing of the opening/closing cover, an image is
displayed on the display panel in accordance with a signal processed image
signal.
