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Stylus
A stylus is an input pointer which is used
for the operation of touch-screens, mo-
bile phones or PDAs.
The stylus consists basically of a plastic
pointer with a softer plastic core. The
sleeve is hard and can be gripped and the
softer core emerges at the tip and is de-
signed to touch the screen as softly as
possible (i.e. without the danger of
scratching the screen).
The stylus is more accurate than opera-
tion using the fingers, since only the thin
tip touches the screen. In addition, dirty
marks on the screen caused by finger-
prints are avoided.
TMC
(Traffic Message Channel)
Traffic announcements transmitted by
most FM stations via RDS. Basis for
dynamic navigation.
USB
(
U
niversal
S
erial
B
us)
The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a bus
sytem for interconnection of a computer
with external USB peripherals for the
exchange of data.
