Sony Ericsson M600 manual Polyphonic, Service Provider, SIM card

PIM

Personal Information Management. Generic term for applications such as Contacts, Calendar, Tasks etc.

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RMF

Rich Music FormatTM A file format developed by Beatnik combining the compact size of MIDI files with the high quality of MP3 and WAV.

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure.

PNG

Portable Network Graphics. Format for storing images on file with data compression but without lowering of quality (loss of information).

Polyphonic

'Many sounds'. The maximum number of notes an instrument can play at the same time, commonly 16 in MIDI devices.

Rx

Receive

SC

Service Centre (for SMS).

SDK

Software Development Kit

Service Provider

A company that provides services and subscrip- tions to mobile phone users.

POP3

Post Office Protocol. Used to collect email from a mail server.

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network, such as, ordi- nary analogue phone line for speech and/or com- puter modem.

SIM card

Subscriber Identity Module card - a card that must be inserted in any GSM-based mobile terminal. 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. M600 uses the small plug-in card.

PTD

Personal Trusted Device. Concept in MeT

QCIF

Quarter Common Intermediate Format. A video for- mat size of 176 x 144 lines.

QQVGA

Quarter Quarter VGA, 160 x 120 pixels.

QVGA

Quarter VGA size, typically refers to a portrait ori- ented screen 240 pixels wide x 320 pixels high.

SIM-AT

SIM Application Toolkit - a means of providing sim- ple applications that are stored on the SIM card.

SMIL

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. Used by MMS to describe how media objects are to be played.

SMS

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

RADIUS

Remote Access Dial-In Service. Facility at the ISP or corporation to manage remote data connec- tions.

RAS

Remote Access Service.

SMSCB

SMS Cell Broadcast.

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. Protocol used to send email from an email client via an SMTP server.

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