Standards support

Name

Description

Link

Bluetooth

An open specification for seamless wireless short-range communications of data and voice between both mobile and stationary devices

See http://www.bluetooth.com/.

Bluetooth

CDMA

Code Division Multiple Access: a digital wireless telephony transmission technique. The leading standard is IS-95.

See http://www.tiaonline.org/.

Using Multimode ETel

CompactFlash

A storage medium for mobile devices.

See http://www.compactflash.org/.

GPRS

General Packet Radio Service: a 2.5G radio technology for GSM networks that adds packet-switching protocols, shorter set-up time for ISP connections, and offer the possibility to charge by amount of data sent rather than connect time.

See http://www.gsmworld.com/.

Using Multimode ETel

GSM

Global System for Mobile communications: the most widely used digital mobile phone system and the de facto wireless telephone standard in Europe.

See http://www.gsmworld.com/.

Using Multimode ETel

HSCSD

High Speed Circuit Switched Data: a dedicated circuit-switched data communications technology for GSM.

See http://www.gsmworld.com/.

Using Multimode ETel

HTTP

The underlying transfer protocol used by the World Wide Web.

See http://www.w3.org/.

Using HTTP Client

IMAP4

Internet Message Access Protocol: a highly-functional protocol for retrieving email over the Internet.

See IETF RFC 2060.

Using Email

IPv4

The traditional Internet Protocol standard, which defines addressing and packet formats for communication over the internet.

Using TCP/IP

IPv6

Extension of the traditional IPv4 standard, allowing a much larger address space.

See IETF RFC 2460.

Using TCP/IP

IrDA

Infrared Data Association: the standards body that defines a suite of protocols for infrared (IR) exchange of data between two devices

See http://www.irda.org/.

Infrared

IrTranP

Infrared Transfer Picture: this provides transfer of pictures from digital cameras to devices over infrared.

See http://www.irda.org/.

Using IrTranP

MIDP

Mobile Information Device Profile: a set of Java APIs that is generally implemented on the Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC). It provides a basic Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) application runtime environment targeted at mobile information devices, such as mobile phones and two-way pagers.

See http://java.sun.com/products/midp/

MultiMediaCard

An open standard for removable, solid-state memory.

http://www.mmca.org/

Base Porting Kit's MultiMediaCard

POP3

Post Office Protocol version 3: a common protocol for transferring mail from the server ('Post Office') to the client.

See IETF RFC 1939.

Using Email

RS232

The standard for serial data transmission using cables.

Serial Comms

SMS

Short Message Service: a GSM service for sending and receiving short text messages.

See http://www.gsmworld.com/

Using GSM SMS, Using CDMA SMS Messaging

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol: the commonest protocol employed for transferring Internet mail messages from the client to the server.

See IETF RFC 821.

Using Email

SyncML

Synchronization Markup Language: an industry-wide effort to create a single, common data synchronization protocol optimized for wireless networks.

See http://www.syncml.org/

SyncML Client v3.0

TCP/IP

The internet communications protocol suite, which supplies the data and transport protocols for higher level protocols such as Web and Email.

Using TCP/IP

Unicode

A 16-bit character encoding scheme allowing characters from all major world languages to be encoded in a single character set.

See http://www.unicode.org/.

Character Conversion

USB

Universal Serial Bus: an external bus standard that supports high data-transfer rates and a single interface for diverse device types.

See http://www.usb.org/.

RUsb etc.

WAP

Wireless Application Protocol: a set of communication protocol standards to make accessing online services from a mobile phone simple.

See http://www.wapforum.org/

Wap etc.