System and mobile cellular telephone device for playing recorded music

DETAILED DESCRIPTION In one embodiment, the present invention is a system for transmitting encoded music from a remote, central facility to a wireless communications device, such as a cellular telephone or personal digital assistant.
In particular, a user of the cellular telephone (for example) may use the telephone to establish a wireless communications link with the remote, central facility, and then wirelessly download one or more selected music recordings for storage in a memory of the cellular telephone.
In particular, the selected music recording(s) is/are transmitted via a wireless data communications link to the cellular telephone.
Preferably, the music recordings are encoded and transmitted in packets, and may particularly be encoded by a compression algorithm into an encoded (such as MP3 or other) format.
Using an input of the cellular telephone, a user may select one or more recordings for transmission to the cellular telephone.
The selected music recordings, upon receipt by the cellular telephone, are stored in a memory.
In one embodiment, the memory is an internal memory.
Alternatively, the memory may be a separate cartridge or memory stick (such as a flash memory cartridge) for movable installation in a bay on the telephone.
A player within the cellular telephone may then be initiated to play the music recordings, for output on a speaker.
In particular, the speaker may include earphones or earplugs connected to a port on the cellular telephone.
Alternatively, the player may output the music through an internal speaker of the cellular telephone.
In an alternate embodiment, the wireless communications device is utilized in combination with a vehicle, and a player, a memory for storing the music, and at least one speaker, are located within the vehicle, such that selected recordings may be retrieved from the remote central facility, and played in the vehicle.
In this embodiment, the memory may include one or more burnable CDs, and will typically have far more memory storage capacity than the memory of the cellular telephone, which is utilized in the previous embodiment