An electronic device may include a first housing, a second housing, at least one wireless communication circuit, and at least one processor. When the electronic device is in the first form, the at least one processor may establish a wireless communication connection with a first peripheral device mapped to the first form using the at least one wireless communication circuit, and obtain that the electronic device changes from the first form to the second form using the at least one sensor, and in response to changing to the second form, establish a wireless communication connection with a second peripheral device mapped to the second form using the at least one wireless communication circuit. In addition to this, various embodiments understood through the specification are possible.

An electronic device includes a first body, a second body coupled to the first body, a trigger device, and a processing device. The trigger device is configured to generate a trigger instruction based on a trigger operation. The trigger device is placed in an area that is responsive to a movement of the first body relative to the second body. The processing device is configured to switch the electronic device from a first state to a second state in response to the trigger instruction. A power consumption state of the first state is different from a power consumption state of the second state.

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a flexible display including a display area, wherein the display area is extendable in one or more directions with respect to the housing by moving a portion of the flexible display through the housing to be visually exposed, and at least one processor configured to be operatively connected to the flexible display, wherein the at least one processor is configured to display first content on a first area of the flexible display, detect an event for displaying second content related to the first content, identify an attribute of the second content according to the detection of the event, identify a direction in which the flexible display is to be extended based on the attribute of the second content, and display at least a portion of the second content in a second area of the flexible display extended in the identified direction.

This disclosure provides a speaker control method and a mobile terminal. The method is performed by the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal includes at least two speakers. The method includes obtaining a use state of the mobile terminal, and determining corresponding audio mode information based on the use state of the mobile terminal, where the audio mode information includes audio modes of the at least two speakers. The method further includes controlling each speaker to work in a corresponding audio mode in the audio mode information.

The display control method for an electronic device with a foldable screen according to an embodiment of this application includes: The electronic device determines a first use posture of using the electronic device by a user, and locks a first screen in response to the first use posture; and when detecting a photographing scenario of a camera and a flip operation performed by the user of the electronic device, the electronic device detects whether an object approaches the electronic device, and in response to a detection result, switches from performing displaying on the first screen to performing displaying on a second screen, or maintains the first screen on and the second screen off. In embodiments of this application, intelligent screen locking or automatic screen switching can be implemented based on different application scenarios, to implement an intelligent terminal device, and improve use performance of the terminal device.

An example non-transitory computer readable medium store a set of instructions when executed cause a controller of a computing device to determine a position of a lid portion of the computing device based on a first signal from a first sensor and determine movement of the computing device based on a second signal from a second sensor. The instructions when executed further cause the controller to transmit a command to a processor of the computing device in response to the determined position of the lid portion and the determined movement, the command to direct the processor to maintain a current operating state.

Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic device having covers which may be coupled and an operating method thereof, the electronic device may include a housing; a first cover coupled with at least part of the housing, and comprising at least one first identification terminal; a second cover coupled with at least part of the first cover, and comprising at least one second identification terminal which is electrically connectable with the first identification terminal; and a processor. The processor may be configured to obtain at least one of first information related to the first cover or second information related to the second cover, identify at least one of a type of the first cover or a type of the second cover based on at least one of the first information or the second information, and perform a designated operation based on at least one of the type of the first cover or the type of the second cover. Other various embodiments are possible.

A user terminal device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The user terminal device includes a display configured to be divided into a first area and a second area which is larger than the first area with reference to a folding line, a cover disposed on a rear side of the display, a detector configured to detect a user interaction on the display and the cover, and a controller configured to, in response to the display being folded along the folding line such that the first area and the second area face each other, control the detector to detect a user interaction through an exposure area, which is an exposed part of the second area, and the cover, and, in response to the display being folded such that the two parts of the cover face with each other with reference to the folding line, control the detector to detect a user interaction through the first area and the second area.

According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises: first housing; a first substrate disposed in the first housing; a second housing; a second substrate disposed in the second housing; a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) connecting the first substrate and the second substrate; a hinge hingably connecting the first housing and the second housing; a hinge cover covering the hinge, the hinge cover having a microphone hole formed therein; at least one first microphone disposed in the first housing; a speaker disposed in the second housing; and at least one second microphone disposed in the hinge, and configured to collect external sound through the microphone hole formed in the hinge cover, and mounted on a portion extending from the FPCB.

According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a first housing including a plurality of conductive portions electrically separated from each other and disposed on at least a portion of a side surface of the first housing; a second housing slidably coupled to the first housing; a flexible display supported by the first housing and the second housing and having a display area that is changable by sliding the second housing; and a wireless communication circuit disposed in the first housing and configured to transmit and receive wireless signals in a plurality of frequency bands via the plurality of conductive portions, wherein the plurality of conductive portions includes a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion, wherein the first conductive portion and the second conductive portion have a U shape or C shape and are electrically separated from each other, and wherein the first conductive portion is spaced apart from the first housing.