A portable wireless device is formed of a lower housing and an upper housing coupled together by a hinged section, which makes the device foldable. A lower circuit board is coupled to an upper circuit board by a flexible cable, which is placed away from a power feeder of an antenna element with a given space and near the hinged section along the width direction of this foldable device. An end of conductive element is shorted to the lower circuit board with a shorting conductor near a connector which couples the flexible cable to the lower circuit board. The foregoing structure allows the portable and foldable wireless device to reduce an amount of energy supposed to be absorbed into a temporal region of a human body while the electric power of the transmitted radio wave is maintained during a phone conversation.