Mobile radio telephone capable of recording/reproducing voice signal and method for controlling the same

DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for recording and reproducing voice messages transmitted from a communicating party via a forward traffic channel.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a mobile radio telephone for recording and reproducing received frame data of a voice channel where the data rate varies depending on voice traffic per unit time.
According to one aspect of the present invention, a mobile radio telephone is provided having a decoder for decoding an input data packet comprising encoded voice sample data based on a predetermined decoding mode, wherein the decoding mode is set according to a supplied data rate.
The mobile radio telephone comprises a memory for storing and outputting data according to a control operation; a recording controller for sequentially storing a format byte and a data packet included in a voice channel frame, input in response to a recording command in a communication mode; a reproducing controller for analyzing a format byte of the voice channel frame sequentially stored in the memory and packet data rate information and packet data in a frame unit, to thereby supply the accessed data to a decoder in response to a reproducing command in an idle mode; and a digital-to-analog converter for converting a voice sample data outputted from the decoder into an analog signal.