Glossary

Letter: A

A2DP (Advanced Audio Bluetooth Profile)

A Bluetooth profile which allows high-quality audio to be streamed, over Bluetooth, from one device to another. Generally used in cellular phones or on other PDAs and in Bluetooth headsets or headset/microphone combinations. To obtain the benefits of high quality audio through this profile, both the sending and receiving devices must support the profile. Also sometimes called Bluetooth Stereo, High-Quality Bluetooth Audio, or High Quality Audio.

Access key (menus)

A key pressed, when one has entered a menu, to select an option within that menu without having to navigate to, and select, the option using the arrow keys and enter or other navigation and selection keys.

Access key (web page)

A key, or combination of keys, pressed from anywhere on the Code Factory site, which immediately brings the user to a link on the current page pointing to a specified part of that page or the website. Note, however, that access keys only places focus on the link which needs to be activated by pressing enter. For example, the access key for the “Contact us” link is Alt+c. This key places focus on a link which, when activated, opens the page showing the different ways of contacting Code Factory.

Activation (Code Factory product)

A software token, downloaded to a device, which allows a licensed Code Factory product to run on that device. Activations may be obtained for a particular device, or moved among devices, through the internet or by SMS. Click here for more information on activations.

ActiveSync

The software used to synchronize a Windows Mobile device’s contacts, email, tasks, notes, and other information with a computer running Microsoft Windows XP or earlier. Click here for more information about ActiveSync.

Add-on

Software or hardware that can be used with Code Factory screen readers and screen magnifiers to expand the functionality of the mobile device.

Application (software)

Any software that performs a task on a device or computer.

ARM processor

A processor architecture initially developed by Advanced RISC Machines, Ltd, and used extensively today in consumer electronic devices such as mobile phones, multimedia players, pocket calculators and personal digital assistants. The Xscale and TI-Omap processors all conform to the ARM processor architecture, and the architecture comes in many different versions, most popularly Arm and ARM11. ARM9 chips generally function more slowly than the faster ARM11 chips.

Arrow key

A key on a device or computer keyboard used to move the cursor or selection pointer in a specified direction. Note that this key can take many forms on a mobile device, and need not look like an arrow key on a computer. It can appear as a joystick, jog dial, D-pad, or in several other forms. It allows the user to navigate the cursor around the screen by moving it up, down, or to the left or right.

Audio book

A narration or dramatization of a book. Depending on their format, audio books can be played on all computers and most portable devices.

Audio stream

Audio which is downloaded from the internet and played as it is downloaded. Audio streams come in many file formats most of which can be played on all computers and most portable devices.

Authentication (Bluetooth or Wi-Fi)

A method and username, password, or both used to connect either to a Bluetooth device or to a wireless network for security purposes to prevent unauthorized use of the Bluetooth device or wireless network.

Auto-focus (camera)

A feature of some cameras which allows them to obtain and continuously maintain focus on a subject automatically rather than requiring the person taking the picture to focus the camera, and maintain the focus, on the person or object which needs to be in the picture.

Auto-sliding QWERTY keyboard

A spring-loaded keyboard which slides out from under a mobile device’ screen very easily. All the user need do is press the two halves of the phone away from one another quite slightly and the keyboard will slide out on its own.