White paper
G900
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September 2008
UI
User Interface. Sometimes called 'Man-Machine
Interface'.
UIQ
A customizable pen-based user interface for
media-rich mobile phones that is based on the
Symbian OS. It may be used as the basis for
building an attractive and efficient UI.
UMTS
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
(UMTS) is one of the third-generation (3G) cell
phone technologies. To differentiate UMTS from
competing network technologies, UMTS is
sometimes marketed as 3GSM, emphasizing the
combination of the 3G nature of the technology
and the GSM standard which it was designed to
succeed.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator. Points to a service or
information on the Internet.
USSD
Unstructured Supplementary Services Data.
Narrow-band GSM data service. An example is,
entering *79*1234# might return the stock price for
stock 1234.
vCal; vCalendar
vCalendar defines a transport and platform-
independent format for exchanging calendar and
scheduling information for use in PIMs/PDAs and
group schedulers. vCalendar is specified by IETF.
vCard
vCard automates the exchange of personal
information typically found on a traditional business
card, for use in applications such as Internet mail,
voicemail, Web browsers, telephony applications,
call centres, PIMs /PDAs, pagers, fax, office
equipment, and smart cards. vCard is specified by
IETF.
VGA
Video Graphics Array. Graphics standard
introduced by IBM, having a resolution of 640 x
480 pixels.
VPN
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a
communications network tunnelled through
another network. A common application is secure
communications over the public Internet.
WAP
Wireless Application Protocol. Handheld devices,
low bandwidth, binary coded, a deck/card
metaphor to specify a service. A card is typically a
unit of interaction with the user, that is, either
presentation of information or request for
information from the user. A collection of cards is
called a deck, which usually constitutes a service.
WAV
Short for Waveform audio format. WAV (or WAVE)
is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard
for storing audio on a PC.
WBMP
Wireless BitMap. Part of the WAP specifications,
an image format optimized for small mobile
devices.
WIM
Wireless Identity Module.
WMA
Windows Media Audio, a compressed audio file
format developed by Microsoft.
WML
Wireless Markup Language. A mark-up language
used for authoring services, fulfilling the same
purpose as HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
does on the World Wide Web (www). In contrast to
HTML, WML is designed to fit small handheld
devices.
