Monday, December 29, 2008

Cell Phone Ringtones

By Gray Rollins

Ring tones are different between landlines and cell phones. The standard ring tone for a landline is a familiar sound, brrrrrrring. You've heard it in the movies and if your grandparents are keepers of the comfortable landline, they hear it every time you call them.

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 are different kinds of ring tones available for you to select. There are monophonic ringtones, which are very basic - just one tone is plated at a time. These ringtones tend to be very simple. More popular than these are polyphonic ringtones, which offer many notes at once. Last of all and increasing in popularity is the true tone; these cell phone ring tones are created from a music file (MP3 or WMA) and are generally about 15 seconds of a song, usually the hook. You can customize your phone by assigning a different tone to each caller on your contacts list.

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!

Your cell phone is already an important part of your life; you should consider customizing your phone to make it more you. There are plenty of great ringtones out there - more than enough to give a personalized ringtone to every one of your contacts. You get get ring tones made out of just about any song you could think of.

On my own phone, I have five different ringtones. One is for my wife, another for my (very precocious) nine year old daughter who just got her first cell phone, another one for my best friend. Knowing who is calling you saves you the trouble of picking up the phone for a wrong number or a person trying to sell you something.

The creativity of personalizing a ring tone for everybody in your contacts makes shopping for ring tones a blast. If you live near somebody and all you ever hear is their personal ring tone give him or her a treat and let him or her call you while he or she is standing next to you. It will let them know what you get to hear and you can tell them why you picked that ring tone for them. As some technology becomes impersonal, cell phones are still continuing to allow you to make that little device a fun and effective tool.

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. - 14915

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