A low-profile cellular phone has improved radiation efficiency during a
call for higher communication quality, and is of a structure allowing the
cellular phone to be of a lower profile than heretofore with the magnetic
plate and awkward structures such as its fixing jigs being not disposed
in a gap within an outer case of the cellular phone.A cellular phone
includes at least an antenna for mainly sending and receiving radio waves
for communication with a base-station, a printed-circuit board having a
metal surface as a board ground layer for the antenna and electronic
components mounted thereon, a feeder for supplying electric power to the
antenna and the metal surface, a magnetic plate made of a magnetic
material housed in an outer case for intensifying a radio wave in a free
space during a talk, and an outer case housing therein the
printed-circuit board, the feeder, and the magnetic plate. The cellular
phone is arranged such that the printed-circuit board is of a
multilayered structure, and the magnetic plate is embedded partly or
entirely between inner layers of the printed-circuit board spaced from
the board ground layer and opposite to a side of the printed-circuit
board spaced where the antenna is located.