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Seeing mobile technology through the lens of Scripture

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Monday, July 17, 2006

Getting Ready for the Mobile FrontierGetting Ready for the Mobile Frontier
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Greetings to you all. A few folks I had been talking to told me how shocked they have been with the amount of posting that has been over the past few weeks, but all I can say there is that there is a lot of news out there that one can come across...heheheh; to the best of my abilities, I shall be keeping it up.

But anyways, to something of note. I was speaking with a pastor from Kenya yesterday (my g/f and her friend went to Kenya and he was one pastor they worked with) and in the mist of our conversation, he asked if I could help him with getting his phone to work. You see, he has a GSM phone, and he knew that it should be able to work over here.

Well, wouldn't you know it that it was not a world phone (a quad-band GSM phone) and therefore he was out of luck. (for the moment) That got me thinking some of prep gear that would help folks who country hop, and want to keep to as tight a buget as possible (hey, not all of us are last-named Gates, Jobs, etc.)

If you will country hop, you want to make sure that you have a quality GSM phone that is also quad-band. Without getting into the tech specifics, it basicalyl works on 4 frequencies in order to make and receive phone calls. For the most part, smartphones (or PDA phones) are usually quad-band if purchased from TMobile or Cingular (US), Rogers (Canada), Orange and Vodaphone (Europe), or DoMoCo (Asia) - note there are many more providers, but these are examples of some famous GSM ones.

Then you will want to probably invest in either a solar charger or international cables and plugs (for voltage differences).

The last and most important thing to invest in is a history and culture reference book. Sometimes, going to another place with a certain level of technology will make you less received. Make sure that you know whom you are ministering to, and even still, if the mobile tech that you can get can compliment what they would have over there.

Short list, but really important if you want to take ministry of any kind out to the nations using mobile technology.
- sent from Treo