A portable data carrier as claimed in claim 1, further comprising payment data memory to store payment data and code to provide the payment data to a payment validation system.

A method of providing data from a data supplier to a data carrier, the method comprising: reading payment data from the data carrier; forwarding the payment data to a payment validation system; retrieving data from the data supplier; writing the retrieved data into the data carrier; receiving at least one access rule from the data supplier; and writing the at least one access rule into the data carrier, the at least one access rule specifying at least one condition for accessing the retrieved data written into the data carrier, the at least one condition being dependent upon the amount of payment associated with the payment data forwarded to the payment validation system. view more

A handheld multimedia terminal as claimed in claim 1, further comprising code to retrieve supplementary data via said wireless interface and output said supplementary data to said user using said display.

A handheld multimedia terminal, comprising: a wireless interface configured to interface with a wireless network for communicating with a data supplier; non-volatile memory configured to store multimedia content, wherein said multimedia content comprises one or more of music data, video data and computer game data; a program store storing processor control code; a processor coupled to said non-volatile memory, said program store, said wireless interface and a user interface to allow a user to select and play said multimedia content; a display for displaying one or both of said played multimedia content and data relating to said played multimedia content; wherein the processor control code comprises: code to request identifier data identifying one or more items of multimedia content available for retrieving via said wireless interface; code to receive said identifier data via said wireless interface, said identifier data identifying said one or more items of multimedia content available for retrieving via said wireless interface; code to request content information via said wireless interface, wherein said content information comprises one or more of description data and cost data pertaining to at least one of said one or more items of multimedia content identified by said identifier data; code to receive said content information via said wireless interface; code to present said content information pertaining to said identified one or more items of multimedia content available for retrieving to a user on said display; code to receive a user selection selecting at least one of said one or more items of multimedia content available for retrieving; code responsive to said user selection of said selected at least one item of multimedia content to transmit payment data relating to payment for said selected at least one item of multimedia content via said wireless interface for validation by a payment validation system; code to receive payment validation data via said wireless interface defining if said payment validation system has validated payment for said selected at least one item of multimedia content; and code responsive to said payment validation data to retrieve said selected at least one item of multimedia content via said wireless interface from a data supplier and to write said retrieved at least one item of multimedia content into said non-volatile memory, wherein said user interface is operable to enable a user to select said selected at least one item of multimedia content available for retrieving. view more