samedi 27 décembre 2008

Cell Phone Ringtones

By Gray Rollins

Landlines and cell phones have different ring tones. While most landline phones have only one ringtone (the familiar brrrrrring sound), cell phones give you a lot of options. The standard ringtone of landlines phones are rapidly becoming a thing of the past as more and more people make the transition to cellular.

Cell phone ring tones are one of the most common way to personalize one's cell phone. A lot of cell phones on the market already have several different ringtones loaded out of the box. There are quite a few people who never get around to changing this ring tone and just stick with the default.

There's no reason to stick with that one boring old ringtone though. There are a few different types of ringtone you can choose from. There are the very basic, one note at a time monophonic ringtones, polyphonic ringtones, which play several notes at once for a richer sound and the more popular true tone ringtones. These ringtones are clips of audio files (either MP3 or WMA format) of about 15 seconds in length. One great way to customize your cell phone is by assigning a different ring tone to each caller.

There are many promotional offers out there for free ringtones; often, you'll be asked to fill out a survey or sign up for an email list to get your free ringtone - however, you can buy ringtones for a s little as 99 cents, so it's a bargain either way. You can also make your own ringtones if your phone can record sounds - you can record distinctive sounds or even the voices of your friends for ringtones!

Since your cell phone is a primary function of life then why not customize it to your tastes? There are so many ring tones available you can have one for every person who gets the privilege to be on your SIM card. Depending on who is on your cell phone contact list, you can give each person their own ring tone based on a song that you identify with them. College fight songs, wedding songs, just about any song you can think of they've got a true tone available.

Personally, I have five ringtones on my cell phone and I use one for my wife, another for my tech-savvy eight year old son and yet another for a college friend of mine. When you know who's calling, you never have to deal with callers who called the wrong number or a salesperson.

It can be a lot of fun to shop for individual ringtones for everyone on your contacts list. In an age where technology has depersonalized some aspects of our lives, it's good to know that cell phones still offer the possibilities of creativity, personality and fun.

You can create your own ring tone or buy one from a subscription site. Be careful with the subscription site though, you don't want to get stuck with a bunch of ring tones that don't reflect what you want to say or hear. There are some subscription sites that allow you benefit from their research based on your preferences. Sorry, I've got to cut this short, the ring tone titled, "From This Moment" by Shania Twain tells me my wife is calling.

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