Patent ID: 7251477

Claim:
A method for reproducing a voice message in a mobile telephone having a memory for storing a voice message and storage-related information, the method comprising the steps of: (a) determining whether a voice message reproduce mode is set by a user; (b) after and in response to determining that the voice message mode is set by the user, accessing stored times of respective voice messages, comparing the stored times, and finding, based on the comparison, the last stored voice message; (c) reproducing the found voice message while simultaneously displaying a remaining time left in the found voice message; (d) after a predetermined time interval, updating the remaining time being displayed; (e) determining whether a scroll key is input while reproducing the found voice message; and (f) finding a next voice message and returning to step (c) to reproduce the next voice message, if the scroll key is input, wherein the message is reproduced without entering a key separate from the scroll key.