Smart Phone: A class of wireless phone handsets with many features, and often a keyboard. What makes the phone smart is its ability to handle data, not only voice calls.

 

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Smart Phone: A class of wireless phone handsets with many features, and often a keyboard. What makes the phone smart is its ability to handle data, not only voice calls.

Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN): Traditional landline network that mobile wireless systems connect with to complete calls.

Saxophone: A woodwind instrument made of metal and sounded with a single reed: the saxophone is a more recent instrument addition to the orchestra.

Smart Antenna: An antenna system that focuses its beam on a desired signal to reduce interference. A wireless network employs smart antennas at its base stations in an effort to reduce the number of droppe . . . View Full Definition

Smart Bomb: Popularized by Defender (1981), instantly destroys all enemies visible on the screen. Games that offer these limit the supply.

Plain Old Telephone Lines (POTL): Unless you are reading this at a high-tech company or large corporation -- which has ISDN or T1 lines -- chances are you accessed over POTS, copper wires that transmit at about 28.8 Kbps. Wh . . . View Full Definition

Phonetics: The study of phonemes, or units of sound in spoken language.

Phone Switching: Transferring money between funds in the same mutual fund family by telephone request. There may be a charge associated with these transfers. Phone switching is also possible among different . . . View Full Definition

Phoneme: The smallest sound or part of a spoken word that serves as a building block in a larger syllable or word, and which cannot be broken down further into smaller constitutive sounds. Phonetic t . . . View Full Definition

Phonemic Alphabet: The twelve vowel sounds and twenty-two consonant sounds that make up spoken english, normally encoded between virgules / /.