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WAN - A wide area network, or WAN, connection is a network link that extends beyond the local LAN to other private or public networks, such as the Internet. An example of which would be a DSL network conne...

WAP - WAP, the Wireless Application Protocol, is a standard method for using WML, an XML based markup language, to define documents and applications to be viewed on the small displays used by mobile devices...

WCDMA - WCDMA stands for Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, and is the 3G technology, as defined by the ITU's IMT-2000 spec, that is used by UMTS and NTT DoCoMo's FOMA network. WCDMA makes use of many c...

white balance - White balance is a camera setting that adjusts for lighting in order to make white objects appear white in photos. This is more difficult than it might seem due to the fact that light cast from diffe...

wide angle - Wide angle, when speaking of cameras, refers to a low magnification lens that is able to direct a wide view of a scene to the camera's image sensor. What focal length lenses pass for wide angle depen...

WiFi - A brand of wireless LAN (WLAN) technologies defined by the IEEE 802.11 group of standards. The two WiFi standards most commonly used by personal computers and mobile devices, such as phones, are 802....

WiMAX - WiMAX is a wireless technology put forth by the WiMAX Forum that is considered by many to be the likely technology to be used as the basis of future 4G applications. It can be used in both point to p...

Windows Mobile - Windows Mobile is Microsoft's platform for PDAs and smartphones. Windows Mobile 5 is the successor to the 2003 edition of the platform. Windows Mobile 6, codenamed "Crossbow", is the release slated ...

WLAN - WLAN stands for Wireless Local Area Network, and is a more generic term that is often used to refer to 802.11 based (WiFi) networks.br/br/ Also known as: "Wireless Local Area Network" br/br/...

WML - The Wireless Markup Language is the XML based language used to define documents, or pages, for use with a WAP browser.br/br/ Also known as: "Wireless Markup Language" br/br/ ...

Mobile Tech Glossary