Patent ID: 7130608

Claim:
A method of using a first mobile terminal together with at least one other mobile terminal over a communications network, the method comprising: configuring an audio playback unit in a first mobile terminal to receive, store and play audio signals; establishing a data channel connection through a communications network between the first mobile terminal and the at least one other mobile terminal; establishing a voice channel connection through the communications network between the first mobile terminal and the at least one other mobile terminal; audibly playing back audio signals by the audio playback unit in the first mobile terminal; transmitting the same audio signals by the audio playback unit over the first data channel to the at least one other mobile terminal; and audibly playing back the audio signals by the at least one other mobile terminal, wherein the audibly playing back of the audio signals in the at least one other mobile terminal occurs at least in part simultaneously with the audibly playing back of the audio signals by the audio playback unit of the first mobile terminal.