Mobile Ministry Magazine

According to a post at the Laridian Blog, Laridian has soft-launched the iPocketBible for iPhone and iPod Touch service/web app. Available in as a $1.99 monthly subscription or $19.99 annual subscription, iPhone and iPod touch users can use one of the most comprehensive Bible packages available today for mobile devices.

Here's more as was posted on the Laridian Blog:

iPocketBible is a Web application so it's very easy for us to update it and add new features. As a result, we decided to make it available to you just as soon as a reasonable amount of functionality was present. This first version of iPocketBible has the following features:

- Access to your complete collection of Laridian Bibles and reference books
- Easy Bible navigation either by choosing book, then chapter, then verse, or by entering a reference like "John 3:16"
- Easy reference book navigation by hierarchical table of contents
- Easy daily devotional navigation by interactive calendar
- Search for words, phrases, or combinations of words
- Search for words matching all prefixes or all suffixes of a particular word
- Chose a passage from a list of search results to see it in context, then use "previous" and "next" functions to see other results in context.
- Set bookmarks on your favorite passages
- Words of Christ in red
- Extensive online help

Coming soon:
- Highlight verses using several highlight colors
- Enter your personal notes on any verse
- Quick word look-up for dictionaries (rather than navigating the table of contents)
- Context-sensitive verse look-up for commentaries (again, rather than navigating the table of contents)
- Track your progress through daily devotionals and Bible reading plans
- Synchronize all your personal data with PocketBible for Windows. Notes, highlights and bookmarks entered on the desktop will show up on your iPhone, and vice versa.
Strongs numbers in Bibles that contain them (they are currently there but not displayed)

This is a pretty substantial Bible offering for iPhone and iPod touch users. Those using the Nokia N and E-series of devices might also be able to use iPocketBible as the rendering engines for the browsers are the same (albeit no touchscreen, so navigation might suffer).

You do need to purchase a bible along with having the subscription plan. However, if you already have made purchases through Laridian previously, those resources will be available to you automatically (you only have to pay for the iPocketBible service).

More details are at www.iPocketBible.com.

Thanks to Matt Miller (Palmsolo) for posting this -- amazing what you can find out when connected with Jaiku and other social networks.

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