Glossary Of Terms - Samsung SCH-411 Series Owner's Manual

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Charging Times with Accessories
Standard Extended Long-Life
Battery Battery
Dual-Slot Desktop Charger 3.5 hrs. 4.5 hrs. 7.5 hrs.
Travel Charger 2.5 hrs. 3.0 hrs. 5.5 hrs.
Hands-Free Car Kit 4.0 hrs. 6.0 hrs. 8.0 hrs.
Cigarette Lighter Adapter 4.0 hrs. 4.5 hrs. 7.5 hrs.
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Airtime - Actual time spent talking on the wireless
Battery
Antenna - A device for transmitting or receiving
Base Station - The fixed radio transmitter/receiver
CDMA - (Code Division Multiple Access) A spread-
Channel - Communications signals transmit along
Codec - COmpression & DECompression.
Deactivation - The process of rendering a wireless
DTMF - (Dual-tone Modulated Frequency) You send

Glossary of Terms

phone. Most carriers bill customers based
on how many minutes of airtime they use
each month.
signals. The size and shape of antennas is
determined, in part, by the frequency of the
signal they receive. Wireless phones and
the base station must have antennas.
that maintains communications with
mobile radio telephones within a given
area. (Typically seen as cell or cell site.)
spectrum approach to digital transmission.
With CDMA, each conversion is digitized and
then tagged with a code. The mobile phone
deciphers only a particular code to pick the
right conversation off the air. The transmitted
signal is just above noise level across the avail-
able bandwidth.
paths called channels.
phone inactive.
DTMF signals when you enter numbers by
pressing the digit keys.
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