Preliminary version - PA4

MO

Mobile Origination. Such as, an SMS message sent from a mobile terminal.

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Personal Java™

An edition of Java™ appropriate for mobile devices such as PDAs.

MP3

Phone book

MPEG Audio Layer 3. An audio compression technology that is part of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 specifi- cations. Commonly used to distribute music on the Internet and on portable players.

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

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Over-the Air Configuration. To provide settings for the phone by way of sending a message, SMS, over the network to the phone. This reduces the need for the user to configure the phone manually.

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Personal Computer.

 

PCS

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Personal Communications Services, often used to describe GSM1900 networks.

PDAF

Personal Digital Assistant. A handheld computer having functions such as address book, calendar etc.

PDP

A memory in the SIM card where phone numbers can be stored and accessed by name or position.

PIM

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

 

 

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Public Key Infrastructure.

 

PNG

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

POP3s

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

PSTN

Public Switched Telephone Network, such as, ordinary analogue phone line for speech and/or computer modem.

PTD

Personal Trusted Device. Concept in MeT

QCIF

Quarter Common Intermediate Format. A video format size of 176 x 144 lines.

QQVGA

Quarter Quarter VGA, 160 x 120 pixels.

QVGA

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

Packet Data Protocol.

RAS

 

 

Remote Access Service.

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