Posted on February 26, 2012 by admin Mobile devices may have
placed an amazing array of technology in the palms of our hands,
but they've also given us a bamboozling array of buzzwords and
acronyms. To help avoid confusion as the cell phone industry
meets for its annual Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, CNN has
compiled a handy jargon buster. Android: An operating system
created for mobile devices by a consortium of tech firms led by
Google. Different versions of Android are typically named after
sugary treats, namely Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Ice Cream
Sandwich. AMOLED: Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode.
This is the technology behind ultra-thin display screens used on
many smartphones. These use on-off switching to consume less
power than previous "passive matrix OLED" displays. Cloud
computing: The offloading of data storage or processing to the
internet or a shared network. Cloud technology allows phones to
outsource their functions, provided there's a good Wi-Fi
connection. 4G: Fourth generati