METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ROUTING CONTENT FOR A MOBILE PHONE OVER AN ALTERNATIVE WIRELESS NETWORK

摘要

A device for network routing control of voice/data traffic for a mobile phone (30) having a primary communication network (32) incorporates a short range radio interface ( 10) communicating with a compatible radio interface in the mobile phone and a wireless communications interface (12) communicating voice/data traffic received through the short range radio interface to art alternative wireless network (42) and traffic received from the alternative wireless network to the short range radio interface. The device is packaged with a media player ( 16) receiving content over the alternative wireless network and storage for the media content and mobile phone data.