Symbian for Software Leaders: Principles of Successful Smartphone Development Projects

Appendix A. Annotated glossary of abbreviations

AI

Artificial Intelligence – as found in games on smartphones, in smart messages, and in numerous other aspects of smartphones

AP

Applications Processor – one of the main silicon chips on a smartphone, which runs the applications visible to the user

API

Application Programming Interface. In the narrow sense, this is the set of functions provided by a platform available to be used by applications writers. In the broad sense, the API includes the HAI and the SPI

AQA

Any Question Answered – a service available through many network operators, whereby mobile users SMS a question to a predefined number (63336) and receive an answer by return, again by SMS. This service is provided by the company IssueBits, founded by Colly Myers (Symbian's first CEO) after leaving Symbian. Another of Symbian's EVP cofounders, Bill Batchelor, is the Technical Director at IssueBits

ARM

Advanced RISC Machines – the company based at Cambridge, UK, that designs the silicon architectures (also called ARM) that are used in most smartphones in the world. Symbian OS has been specially optimized for aspects of ARM architecture

BAT

Basic Acceptance Tests – a set of tests covering all functionality in a product, that should be run on every candidate release of the product

BC

Binary Compatibility – where the APIs of two platform versions are such that executable code built on one version will successfully run on the other without being rebuilt

BP

Baseband Processor. Another name for ...