Mobile Phone Dictionary
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Sunday December 24th, 2006 03:18 AM
Voicemail - An automated recording facility that takes messages from callers e.g. if you are unavailable or the phone is switched off. Voicemail is free to activate and free to leave messages on.
Voice memo - A voice recorder built into your phone to tape notes to yourself.
Wallpaper - A Cell Phone Wallpaper is similar to a Wallpaper on your PC in that it displays a Picture on the background of your screen. A lot of Mobile phones are able to download Wallpapers to display onto the background of their screen in either colour or black and white (monochrome). The colour Mobile Phone Wallpaper has taken over from the Operator Logo as the best way to customise your Mobile Phone with a background picture of your choice. Colour Wallpapers or Backgrounds for Mobiles come in a variety of sizes (in pixels) and formats (usually jpg, jpeg or gif).
WAP - (Wireless Application Protocol) This is a technical standard designed to allow the content of the Internet to be viewed on the screen of a mobile device such as mobile phones, personal organisers and pagers. The information and services available are stripped down to their basic text format to ensure rapid loading to the phone.
WAP Browser - A programme which allows viewing of WML pages.
Wap Portal - Provider of connection to the mobile Internet.
Wireless - Without wires. Communication without any physical connections between the sender and the receiver. Using the radio frequency spectrum (airways) and hardware, software and technologies to transmit information. Also an old name phrase for Radios.
WML - (Wireless Mark-up language) A mark-up language based on XML intended for use in specifying content and user interfaces. Originally designed for narrowband mobile devices, it has now evolved to become part of WAP 2.0.
X-Rated - As with any medium, x-rated and adult content is widely available for mobile phones. The type of content includes adult videos, games such as strip poker, wallpapers, screensavers and message alert tones.
Yell - The compulsion to talk loudly into ones mobile phone and irritating surrounding people. Also a well know online uk telephone directory.
Zoom - Some camera phones have either a digital or optical zoom facility which you can use to bring an object closer rather than you moving closer to it. A digital zoom will take each pixel that the camera sees and enlarge it, but doing this will reduce the overall picture quality the more you do this, the more blocky the picture will appear. An optical zoom uses lenses to enlarge the image which allows you to get closer to take a picture of the subject without reducing the quality.
We really hope that our Mobile Phone dictionary of terms proved helpful to you. We are always looking to update the glossary with further information so feel free to check back regularly to see what is new.
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