MMS: The Bible on your phone
This is a little series I’m going to do on how much of the Bible you can fit on your cell phone using existing software and technologies. I’m interested in free or cheap technologies and also formats that are compatible with as many types of phones as possible. If you’re looking for something for your outlandish early-adopter digital toy, this is not the place. But if you have a taste for retro then you might enjoy some of these ideas.
MMS is basically a multimedia SMS. You can include audio, video and a lot more text. An MMS allows about 1000 characters of text which would give you the equivalent of Genesis 1:1-10.
However, more exciting than just plain old boring text is the possibility of creating and sharing multimedia presentations. Ulead Video Toolbox comes with most new Nokia handsets and is a blast to play with. You could create dramatic presentations with photos, images, clipart, videos and soundtracks. It is really fun.
I’m looking forward to playing with Nokia Multimedia Factory. This is hot software for creating multimedia messages. Available in Asia and Europe.
One nice thing about MMS is that it is easy to share between phones. As we’ll see in a future post, Java apps can’t be traded between phones. That is death for any “viral” text distribution campaign. But MMS can be shared between phones either by sending an MMS or trading the video or audio content by Bluetooth or Infrared.
Here in Mozambique you can now send MMS for the same price as an SMS so the only constraint is the size of the file. Bigger files take longer and tend to fail when sent.
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Lingamish, you rotter! Just when I had dropped Lingalinga from my list of must reads, because I thought more of your inventive serious stuff was on Lingamish, you go and do a swap and hide this series here – and to make it worse you emailed me some teasers!
If the ideas and information were not so interesting, I’d drop the lot of you, and read nothing but John Hobbins! As it is I’ll have to add Lingalinga again and tomorrow I’ll have three thousand new posts to plough through
Though I suppose I must apologise for my spleen above, I have asked people to read http://asiabible/wordpress.com as well as my other blog, at least while I am hardly posting there… Hmm, now all I need is an MMS capable phone here in Thailand, we only have my wife’s which seems to be pre-MMS and anyway, though there is coverage in the refugee camp, we chose the wrong supplier when we bought the SIM card
PS, do you have an example of what can be done, since I have no MMS access here, ideally viewable on a PC?
I subscribe to both your blogs!
I’ll email you when I’m out of this meeting…
Tim, see this post for an explanation of how to view wap sites in your Firefox browser:
http://lingalinga.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/cellphotonet-a-cool-way-to-share-applications-for-mobile-phones/
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Hi there, I hope you can help me. I have a query from a person in Nigeria who would like to read the bible on his cellphone. I’m a bit technologically challenged. How can I help him?
Thanks
Annelle
Have them go to http://mobible.org on their mobile.