Glossary Term List
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Our online glossary is here to help you make sense of the terminology used in the cell phone industry. It covers mobile technologies, such as 3G and 4G, and even includes a bit of information on smartphone operating systems and the companies that make the mobile phones we all use.
1xEV-DO [AKA "EV-DO"] - Commonly known simply as EV-DO, CDMA 1xEV-DO is a 3G technol... 1xEV-DO Rev A [AKA "EV-DO Rev A"] - EV-DO Rev A is a 3G CDMA technology that is an upgrade of tr... 1xEV-DV [AKA "EV-DV"] - EV-DV, written in full form as 1xEV-DV, is a 3G voice and da... 1xRTT - 1xRTT is a data transmission system used on CDMA networks th... 2.5G - 2.5G is a sometimes used term that refers to GPRS class wire... 2.75G - 2.75G is a term occasionally used to refer to EDGE data conn... 2G - 2G is short for Second Generation, the name usually given to... 3G - 3G, or Third Generation, is a somewhat generic term for netw... 4G - 4G is the term used to refer to the next wave of as yet unkn... 802.11 [AKA "WiFi"] - A brand of wireless LAN (WLAN) technologies defined by the I... 802.11b - IEEE standard 802.11b defines a Wireless LAN (WLAN) technolo... 802.11g - IEEE standard 802.11g defines a Wireless LAN (WLAN) technolo... 802.15.1 [AKA "Bluetooth"] - Bluetooth is a wireless technology developed by Ericsson tha... 802.16 [AKA "WiMAX"] - WiMAX is a wireless technology put forth by the WiMAX Forum ...
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