摘要 |
A mobile telephone usable both as a portable and as an installed telephone, capable of saving battery power when used as a portable telephone, and safely starting up voice-dialing when used as an installed telephone. Discriminating circuit (3, 3A, 14) discriminates which use the telephone is now in, portable or installed. In the former use, start-up circuit (7, 15) is manually activated to supply power from battery pack (1) to voice-dialing unit (8). The power supply is cut off in response to reset signal R supplied from the voice-dialing unit when voice-dialing ends. In the latter use, voice-dialing unit is kept switched on to the vehicle battery and ready for start-up in response to voice input. <IMAGE> |