Glossary

Access Name Point (APN) is an access point for GPRS. It is usually in the form “internet.mobileoperatorname.com” and may require a user name and password. If so, most mobile providers simply use their company name.

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a mobile data service available to users of GSM mobile phones. It is often described as "2.5G", that is, a technology between the second (2G) and third (3G) generations of mobile telephony.

Webmail is a web application that allow users to access their email through a web browser, as an alternative to using an email client such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird or Eudora. Examples, include Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, Gmail and many others.

Java Platform, Micro Edition or Java ME (formerly referred to as Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition or J2ME), is a collection of Java APIs for the development of software for resource-constrained devices such as PDAs, cell phones and other consumer appliances.