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Predictive text input

Mobile communications; Mobile phones

A mode of text input that lets a user write messages faster. The user presses each key only once per letter and the software decodes the keystrokes and scans the internal dictionary for matching ...

A service that allows mobile phone users to publish their current presence information and fetch the presence information of other users of the service. Presence information includes, for example, ...

Profile

Mobile communications; Mobile phones

A group of phone settings, such as ringing tones, keypad tones, and warning tones, that a user can change. With profiles, the user can, for example, create sets of combined tones and screen savers to ...

Push to talk

Mobile communications; Mobile phones

A one-way communication function in a mobile phone which lets one user at a time talk to another user or a selected user group. Push to talk is activated by pressing the push to talk key or ...

Push to talk over cellular (PoC)

Mobile communications; Mobile phones

A service that provides direct one-to-one and one-to-many voice communication in the cellular network. Calls can be started both to individuals and to talk groups with just the push of a key. Call ...

Quarter common intermediate format (QCIF)

Mobile communications; Mobile phones

A standard video format that provides an image size of 176 x 144 pixels. QCIF is used in videophones and desktop videoconferencing applications. QCIF has one quarter of the pixels of the full common ...

Roaming

Mobile communications; Mobile phones

The ability of a subscriber to use a mobile device to make and receive calls outside their home network coverage area. Roaming is usually based on roaming agreements between mobile operators. ...