- Industry: Mobile communications
- Number of terms: 3825
- Number of blossaries: 1
- Company Profile:
Finnish multinational communications corporation currently the world's largest manufacturer of mobile telephones. The company also offers Internet services and produces telecommunications network equipment.
A digital transmission technique in which a base station assigns a unique code to each mobile device to distinguish that particular device from all others on the air. The signals are encoded using the code that the receiver also knows and uses to decode the received signal. CDMA is one of several spread spectrum techniques.
Industry:Mobile communications
A combination of several standard-length short messages which the user sees as one longer message.
Industry:Mobile communications
A call that enables simultaneous communication between more than two parties. The number of people that can join the call depends on the model of phone. The network operator provides the conference call and the operator or user can activate it.
Industry:Mobile communications
An application for storing and editing contact information such as names, phone numbers, and addresses. The data can be stored in the internal memory of a phone or on its SIM card.
Industry:Mobile communications
Software that lets the user of a mobile device transfer data between two compatible phones and to make a backup copy of phone data to a compatible PC. Nokia content copier is included in the PC Suite software, which can be downloaded from the Nokia Support web pages at www.nokia.com/support/phones. PC Suite is not available for all phone models.
Industry:Mobile communications
A feature that lets the user convert measures from one unit to another. Converter can be used, for example, to convert a length measure from yards to metres or an amount of money from one currency to another.
Industry:Mobile communications
A piece of information that a web site puts on the memory of a device when a user visits the web site. Typically, a cookie records the user's preferences when using a particular site. The user can delete cookies by clearing the cache.
Industry:Mobile communications
A timer that counts from a set time towards zero. The countdown timer can be used as a reminder of a task that needs to be done after a certain time of less than 24 hours.
Industry:Mobile communications
An area within which a mobile device can have a connexion to a network. See also Service area.
Industry:Mobile communications
