MOBILE PHONE TERMS

3G phone

A mobile phone which uses a third-generation technology network that has greater bandwidth allowing faster data downloads and face-to-face video calling.

BlackBerry
BlackBerry by Research in Motion is a mobile device with both phone functionality and push based email functionality

Brick or Candybar Style
1. A large, heavy, and usually obsolete wireless mobile phone such as the Motorola International 3200. (also Cinderblock or Shoebox)
2. A mobile phone of a solid form factor. Originally many Nokia models were of this design. (also candybar)

Camera phone
A mobile phone equipped with a digital optical camera. The camera may be capable of capturing still images and/or video.

Clamshell or flip phone
A mobile phone of a form factor resembling the shell of a clam with the ability to open up in the same way. Some earlier flip phones had a small brick-like form factor with a hinge at the bottom of the phone that was attached to a flat piece of plastic which flipped up to cover the keypad but left the display screen exposed. It's worth noting that 'Flip Phone' is a trademark of Motorola, filed under registration number 2157939 at the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Slider or slide phone
A mobile phone with a sliding form factor. Usually, the display slides over the keypad to prevent accidental dialing. Some models are designed so that the keypad slides over the display screen.

Cell phone, cellular phone, or cell
Term used currently in the United States and Canada (and in other countries as well during the 1980s) to refer to most mobile phones. It technically applies specifically to mobile phones which use a cellular network. In developing mobile phone technology, American electrical engineers were confronted by the challenge of achieving a smooth handoff from one radio antenna to the next. After the name "cell" was applied to the zone covered by each antenna, it was a natural choice for them to apply the term "cellular" to both the technology and the phones that ran on it.

Dual front
Is a design aspect which means that a phone can have two sides which are contrasting in use, i.e. camera-like design on one side, and general phone design on other.

Dual NAM
Is a feature that allows two mobile numbers from the same cellular vendor to be associated with one mobile phone. The Dual Nam feature is useful for people who have a business phone number and a personal phone number on single mobile phone. Listed below are some information, guidelines, and instructions for those interested in using Dual NAM.

• Since the use of Dual NAM requires that both numbers be provided by the same cellular vendor.
• Mobile companies will not move telephone charges from one bill to the other, so if you place/receive a billable call on the wrong number, the charge will stay with the number used.
• Contrary to the way a desktop phone can be set up to operate with 2 lines and ringing notification of a secondary incoming call, the cellular phone cannot.
• Users are either on one line or the other. There is no ringing notification when there is an incoming call on the inactive line. That call goes to voice mail if that is set up as an option on the cellular line. Users must learn to "toggle" between lines. The directions to do so are specific to each cellular phone.
• Message waiting notification from voice mail is on the active line only. Users toggling to the secondary line to check for message waiting indication may perceive a "delay" because the cellular line must initialize or talk to the tower, the tower must talk with the voice mail system, the voice mail system must talk back and finally message waiting notification can take place. It may not happen instantly after toggling to the secondary line.

How to order Dual

• NAMSubmit a requst that 1) Cellular number xxx-xxx-xxxx be added as a Dual NAM to personal cellular number xxx-xxx-xxxx or 2) personal cellular number xxx-xxx-xxxx be added as a Dual NAM to cellular number xxx-xxx-xxxx.
• The Mobile company assist with programming cellular phone for Dual NAM functionality.

Handset

A term used by manufacturers to refer to a mobile phone. Also commonly used by industry insiders.

Hands-free car kit

Mobile phone accessory used to talk while keeping hands on the steering wheel.

Handy

An English word adopted by German speakers to refer to mobile phones.[9], [10]

Hand phone

used currently in Asia-Pacific countries such as South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia to refer to most mobile phones.

Keitai

The Japanese word for mobile phone, often used by any one living in Japan.

Mobile phone

A term covering cellular phones, satellite phones and any other phones giving wide-ranging mobility used in most English-speaking countries. In some English-speaking countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, common usage refers specifically to phones using the cellular network.

Pelephone

(he. פלאפון) The slang term for a mobile phone in Israel. It is a brand name derived from the words Pele (פלא) Telefon (טלפון). These are the English words miracle and telephone respectively.

Ringtone

song or tune that is played to alert the user that a mobile phone is receiving a call.

phone

mobile phone which communicates with a satellite rather than a land-based network.

Unlock

To enter a code into a GSM phone which has a subsidy lock to one operator so that it will accept a Subscriber Identity Module from another operator.

Wireless phone

A term that generally refers to a Wi-Fi VoIP phone but is sometimes used by the mobile phone industry to describe mobile phones.

Related non-cell-phone systems:

Cordless phone (portable phone)

Cordless phones are standard telephones with radio handsets. Unlike mobile phones, cordless phones use private base stations that are not shared between subscribers. The base station is connected to a land-line.

Professional Mobile Radio

Professional mobile radio systems are very similar to cell phone systems and attempts have even been made to use TETRA, the international digital PMR standard, to implement public mobile networks, but normally PMR systems are sufficiently separate from the phone network to not really be considered phones but rather radios.

Radio phone

This is a term which covers radios which could connect into the telephone network. These phones may not be mobile; for example, they may require a mains power supply. Also, they may require the assistance of a human operator to set up a PSTN phone call.

New Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone