by for example a retractable wire 213 the mobile phone 200 and housing 209 of the present invention could also be shaped as a headset 214 in this embodiment the headset would be worn on the head or ear of the user with the microphone 211 placed near the tip of the boom 215 of the headset 214 and the speaker 212 placed nearer to the ear of the user in a related embodiment the headset can be manually transformed by the user into a phone that can be worn as a pendant or brooch and vice versa in such an embodiment upon transforming the phone from headset mode to pendant or brooch mode the speaker 212 may be configured to operate as a speakerphone when the phone is in pendant or brooch mode other components such as the microphone 211 can likewise be configured to operate as needed in a certain mode some embodiments of the present invention require a remote station which generally comprises a human operator and a list of contact information unique to the user such as a list of telephone numbers of colleagues previously provided by a mobile phone user the remote station can also be configured to have access to the email sms or im accounts of the mobile phone user the remote station can also comprise an automated voice input device that can receive oral commands and be programmed to take specific actions in response to those commands the voice input could thus be used to minimize or eliminate any need to have a human operator control the function of the.