102 must be within radio contact range of the base 104 in order to establish a proper wireless speech path the base 104 provides applications to the user 101 through the wireless communicator the application server 105 is associated with base 104 in order to provide other applications desired by the user 101 the base 104 provides access to the telephone network 106 and the data network 107 to allow the user 101 to communicate by voice or to access data resources as managed by an application running on the base 104 and serving the user 101 additionally the base provides access to a variety of external media servers 108 supporting audio based applications like ivr voicemail dictaphone service and podcasts music the wireless communicator 102 makes use of the wireless communicator charger 106 to recharge its battery while still being operational fig2 identifies the components that make up the wireless communicator audio can be fed by the radio interface 206 or the microcontroller 205 as a stream of binary data representation to a digital to analog converter or dac 207 the dac 207 outputs an analog signal which drives the speaker 208 the analog signal can be amplified as necessary the microphone.