Patent ID: 8359050

Claim:
A mobile phone comprising: television broadcast reception means adapted to receive a television broadcast wave; television image display means adapted to display a television image on a display screen on the basis of the received television broadcast wave; electronic mail reception means adapted to receive an electronic mail made of character information from a base station; scroll display means adapted to provide scroll display of said character information of the electronic mail on a first display area of said display screen as time elapses when the electronic mail is received in a state that said television image display means displays the television image on the display screen; mail browsing application start means adapted to start an application to browse through said character information of the received electronic mail on a second display area of said display screen when an operation is carried out by a user before the scroll display includes entire character information of the received electronic mail on said display screen; and mail creating application start means adapted to start an application to create a reply electronic mail to the received electronic mail when said operation is carried out by the user within a fixed period of time after said entire character information of the received electronic mail is subjected to the scroll display on said display screen.