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Index : A	Description
A2DP	Advanced Audio Distribution Profile is designed to transfer a uni-directional 2-channel stereo audio stream from one device to another over Bluetooth-based communication
AAC	Advanced Audio Coding is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio
AAC+	HE-AAC version 1 uses spectral band replication (SBR) to enhance the compression efficiency in the frequency domain
ACI	Accessory Control Interface
ADC	Analog-to-Digital Converter
ADSP	Application Digital Signal Processor (expected to run high level tasks)
AGC	Automatic Gain Control
ALS	Ambient Light Sensor
AMR	Adaptive Multi-Rate is a patented audio data compression scheme optimized for speech coding
AMR-NB	Adaptive Multi-Rate Narrow Band Codec
AMR-WB	Adaptive Multi-Rate Wide Band Codec
AMSL	After Market Service Leader
API	is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform.
APOP	POP3 authentication methods to provide varying levels of protection against illegitimate access to a user's e-mail
Applet	is Java programs that are embedded in other applications, typically in a Web page displayed in a Web browser.
ARM	Acorn RISC Machine is a 32-bit RISC processor architecture developed by ARM
ARPU	Average Revenue Per User (per-month or per-year)
ASIC	Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASIP	Application Specific Interface Protector
Async CDMA	Asynchronous CDMA system used a unique "pseudo-random" or "pseudo-noise" to encode and decode a users signal in the same manner as the orthogonal codes in synchrous CDMA.
AUC	The authentication centre is a function to authenticate each SIM card that attempts to connect to the GSM core network (typically when the phone is powered on)
AVRCP	Audio/Video Remote Control Profile is designed to provide a standard interface to control TVs, Hi-fi equipment, etc over Bluetooth-based communication