A mobile phone system with multimedia processor comprising a radio frequency (RF) receiver/transmitter module, an analog base band (ABB) module, a digital base band module (DBB), a multimedia processor module, a flash memory module, a static random access memory module, a display module, a removable memory module, a high-speed bi-directional interface, a keypad, a microphone, and a speaker. The multimedia processor module performs certain digital signal processing on multimedia data. The multimedia processor module provides the telephone with improved multimedia capabilities and increased performance.