Patent ID: 6898443

Claim:
A portable telephone device which receives contents information distributed from a server in response to a request made by a user for the contents information, the portable telephone device comprising: a display panel which displays the received contents information thereon; a backlight which lights up the display panel; a request detecting means for detecting that the request has been made; a reception judgment means for judging whether the contents information is received within a predetermined period of time since the request detecting means detects that the request has been made; a display control means for (a) in a case where the contents information is received, displaying on the display panel the received contents information when the contents information is received, and (b) in a case where the contents information failed to be received, displaying on the display panel a message indicating that that contents information failed to be received when the predetermined period of time has elapsed; and a lighting control means for (a) in the case where the contents information is received, turning off the backlight after the request detecting means detects that the request has been made until the contents information is displayed and turning on the backlight when the contents information is displayed and (b) in the case where the contents information failed to be received, turning off the backlight after the request detecting means detects that the request has been made until the message is displayed and turning on the backlight when the message is displayed.