Patent ID: 7869580

Claim:
A mobile phone with a content reproduction function, said mobile phone comprising: a reproduction unit operable to reproduce a content; an incoming call detection unit operable to detect an incoming call from outside; a ring tone outputting unit operable to output a ring tone; a stop unit operable to instruct said reproduction unit to stop reproduction of the content after gradually reducing a volume of the content, and to instruct said ring tone outputting unit to output a ring tone while gradually increasing a volume of the ring tone, when said incoming call detection unit detects an incoming call while said reproduction unit is reproducing the content; a resume method storage unit operable to store information indicating at least two reproduction resume methods for resuming reproduction of the content interrupted by the incoming call at different positions of the content; and a control unit operable to select one of the at least two reproduction resume methods stored in said resume method storage unit, to specify a reproduction start position of the content based on the selected reproduction resume method, and to instruct said reproduction unit to reproduce the content from the specified reproduction start position, after reproduction is stopped by said reproduction unit in accordance with the instruction from said stop unit and a conversation finishes, wherein the at least two reproduction resume methods include at least one of a method to reproduce the content from a beginning of the content which was being reproduced just before being stopped, a method to reproduce the content from a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped, and a method to jump back to the content for a specified time from a point at which the reproduction of the content was stopped and to restart the reproduction of the content at the point.