A basic control process is performed on a mobile phone. From the basic
control process, various processes are branched and performed, such as a
normal standby process, unread mail reading standby process, and Braille
pattern data generation process. In each of the processes, each of the
Braille pins of a Braille display device provided for the mobile phone is
raised, as occasion demands, by drive-control performed by a Braille
driving device, and for example, the content of an unread mail, the
content of a creating email, and a phone number in a phone call or the
like on the mobile phone are displayed as a Braille pattern. The raising
direction of the Braille pins is set on the rear surface different from
the operation surface of the mobile phone. Thus, while holding the mobile
phone in one hand, a user can perform the operation related to the phone
call or email and can quickly and accurately perceive or sense various
text information displayed in Braille.