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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

ChristianMobile Launches Service in UK and Australia

ChristianMobile, creators of VirtualBible, have created and announced a mobile phone Bible download service in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Snippets from the two press releases:

For the UK:

the whole Good News Translation (GNT) and the Contemporary English Version (CEV) of the Bible, Old and New Testaments from Genesis to Revelation - are available for download via a text message request in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Mobile phone users can download the Bible by sending the words GNTOT or CEVOT for the Old Testament or GNTNT or CEVNT for the New Testament to 60999 at a cost of 6 GBP per Testament.

The service enables pre-paid and contract mobile phone subscribers across all mobile networks in the United Kingdom to purchase the Bible via text message and download the full Bible by sending the words GNTOT or CEVOT for the Old Testament or GNTNT or CEVNT for the New Testament to 60999 at a cost of 6 GBP per Testament. Welsh, Afrikaans, Spanish, Russian, Brazilian-Portugese, and the Catholic apocryphal books are also available for download at www.christianmobileuk.com as well as a number of Christian ringtones, Christian wallpapers and daily Christian inspirational text messages such as prayers, devotions, Bible verses and Christian quotations.

For Australia:

...the whole Good News Translation (GNT) and the Contemporary English Version (CEV) of the Bible, Old and New Testaments from Genesis to Revelation - are available for download via a text message request in Australia. Mobile phone users can download the Bible by sending the words GNTBIBLE or CEVBIBLE to 19724253 or 197BIBLE at a cost of £ 20 perBible...

...The service enables pre-paid and contract mobile phone subscribers across all mobile networks in Australia to purchase the Bible via text message and download the full Bible via a text message request in Australia. Mobile phone users can download the Bible by sending the words GNTBIBLE or CEVBIBLE to 19724253 or 197BIBLE at a cost of £ 20 per Bible. A number of other Bible Versions are also available for download at www.christianmobileau.com as a number of daily Christian inspirational text messages services such as prayers,devotions, Bible verses and Christian quotations...

Pretty good news for those in Austrialia who don't want a smartphone but need the Word with them. For more information about Christian Mobile go to www.christianmobile.co.za; www.christianmobileuk.com; www.christianmobilerussia.com; www.christianmobileusa.com; www.christianmobileau.com or wapbibles.com on your mobile browser.

I really encourage those of you whom are pastors and missionaries to make this option known to people as well. Sure, we'd like for them to have a bound copy in hand when we are teaching/preaching, but in the case that this is not available, let them know that there are other options out there that are suitable for reading and studying.

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