ME
Mobile Equipment. (Phone excluding SIM card)
MeT
Mobile Electronic Transactions. An initiative founded by Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola to estab- lish a secure and consistent framework for mobile transactions.
MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI defines a protocol and file format which enables music to be described and stored in binary form.
MIDP
Mobile Information Device Profile. An API (or 'pro- file' in J2ME nomenclature) defined to enable a standard programming API for mobile devices. MIDP compliant applications execute in the restricted environment defined by the CLDC.
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MPEG
Moving Picture Experts Group. A working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video.
MS
Mobile Station. (Phone and SIM card)
MT
Mobile Termination.
OS
Operating System, such as Symbian OS, Linux, Microsoft® Windows®.
OTA
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. A protocol defining how messages are sent on the Internet. MIME is used to describe how attachments are encoded and what type of data they contain.
MMS
Multimedia Messaging Service. Logical extension of SMS and EMS, MMS defines a service enabling sound, images and video to be combined into mul- timedia messages.
MMS-C
MMS Service Centre
MO
Mobile Origination. Such as, an SMS message sent from a mobile terminal.
MP3
MPEG Audio Layer 3. An audio compression tech- nology that is part of
PC
Personal Computer.
PCS
Personal Communications Services, often used to describe GSM1900 networks.
PDA
Personal Digital Assistant. A handheld computer having functions such as address book, calendar etc.
Portable Document Format. A format created by Adobe for storing and distributing documents.
PDP
Packet Data Protocol.
Personal Java™
An edition of Java™ appropriate for mobile devices such as PDAs.
Phone book
A memory in the SIM card where phone numbers can be stored and accessed by name or position.
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