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sible via the WAP browser. The openness of the downloadable games solution is dedicated to pro- vide an enhanced gaming experience.

The downloadable games can fully take advantage of the phone’s interfaces, such as TCP/IP, SMS, vibrator and backlights. The virtual machine exe- cutes the downloading of games for the optimal game experience. The user can download an unlimited number of games as long as the file sys- tem allows it, i.e. until the phone memory is full.

The downloading concept includes certification of the games, which makes it possible to create a rev- enue chain and favorable business opportunities for network operators and content providers. The virtual machine uses true sandbox technology for highest level of security. The software development kits are available via www.mophun.com

Imaging

With a digital camera attached to your phone, you can take, view, store and send high-quality pictures over the air to another mobile phone, as MMS mes- sages, or you can send them to an email address or Web photo album. Downloading images from the Web is another alternative. Thousands of online image collections already exist on the Web and many sites are already gearing up to include images for use in mobile phones.

There are various ways to incorporate images and other multimedia into your communication. You can attach pictures to people listed in your phonebook and have pictures or icons of the caller identifying them in your display.

The pictures are stored in the picture browser in the phone. From here, the user can select view, thumb- nail or full view, as well as keep track of the number and size of the pictures stored in the phone.

both the WAP browser and in any standard Web browser. All of the basic XHTML features are sup- ported, including text, images, links, checkboxes, radio buttons, text areas, headings, horizontal rules and lists. In addition to WML, XHTML Mobile Pro- file, and XHTML Basic, your phone supports the markup language iHTML.

With the WAP 2.0 browser, cascading style sheets (CSS) and cookies are supported. CSS enhances content presentation and style. Cookies are often used by Web sites to store site-specific information in the browser between visits to the site. Cookies are often used by e-commerce sites (shopping carts and wish lists), and to save the user from entering the same information more than once.

Full graphic 4K display

The T290i/T290c delivers 4K colours on a large dis- play that enhances viewing, facilitating high-quality multimedia messaging, and personalized imaging. The standby display looks like the desktop in a computer, with the menus presented as icons.

Figure 1. The T290 standby display.

Navigation

There is an easy-to-use 4-directional navigation key. Using finger or thumb, you can easily navigate the menu system. When you arrive at the required function in a menu, instead of pressing Yes, just gently press the small button in the center of the navigation key and the feature is activated.

WAP

Your T290i/T290c supports the WAP 1.2.1 browser and protocol stack, as well as the WAP 2.0 browser. With WAP 1.2.1, your phone can read WML pages and use WTLS class 3 security. The added benefit of supporting the WAP 2.0 browser is the capability to navigate to pages written in XHTML Mobile Profile and XHTML Basic markup languages. These two languages, subsets of the Web standard XHTML, are supported by all major Web browsers. An XHTML page can be viewed in

GPRS

GPRS uses Internet-style packet based technol- ogy. It allows users to be permanently connected to the mobile Internet, but only uses the radio link for the duration of time that it transfers data. GPRS offers the user the speed needed for satisfactory mobile Internet usability. Support is provided for GPRS 3+1.

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