Service provider, SIM card, SyncML, VCalendar

PIM

Personal Information Management.

Service Centre (for SMS).

Service provider

A company that provides services and subscriptions to mobile phone users.

Service Indication.

Service Loading.

SIM card

Subscriber Identity Module card – a card that must be inserted in any GSM-based mobile phone. It contains subscriber details, security information and memory for a personal directory of numbers. The card can be a small plug-in type or credit card-sized, but both types have the same functions. The T68i uses the small plug-in card.

SMS

Short Message Service. Allows messages of up to 160 characters to be sent and received via the network operator's message centre to a mobile phone.

Supplementary Services.

SyncML

An open standard for synchronization of all devices and applications over any network.

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.

UMTS

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System. The telecommunications system, incorporating mobile cellular and other functionality, that is the subject of standards produced by 3GPP.

URL

Uniform Resource Locator.

USSD

Unstructured Supplementary Services Data.

VAD

Voice Activated Dialling.

T68i

White Paper, April 2002

VAS

Value Added Service.

vCalendar

vCalendar defines a transport and platform- independent format for exchanging calendar and scheduling information for use in PIMs/PDAs and group schedulers. vCalendar is specified by IETF.

vCard

vCard automates the exchange of personal information typically found on a traditional business card, for use in applications such as Internet mail, voice mail, Web browsers, telephony applications, call centres, video conferences, PIMs /PDAs, pagers, fax, office equipment, and smart cards. vCard is specified by IETF.

WAE

Wireless Application Environment.

WAP

Wireless Application Protocol. Handheld devices, low bandwidth, binary coded, a deck/card metaphor to specify a service. A card is typically a unit of interaction with the user, that is, either presentation of information or request for information from the user. A collection of cards is called a deck, which usually constitutes a service.

WAP Application

A collection of WML cards, with the new context attribute set in the entry card.

WAP service

A WML application residing on a web site.

WBMP

WAP Bitmap.

WBXML

Wireless Binary Extensible Markup Language.

WDP

Wireless Datagram Protocol.

WML

Wireless Markup Language. A markup language used for authoring services, fulfilling the same purpose as HyperText Markup Language (HTML) does on the World Wide Web (WWW). In contrast to HTML, WML is designed to fit small handheld devices.