Cell Phone Ringtones
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 commonly used to customize phones. Many cell phones are sold already loaded with a variety of ring tones; a lot of people just stick with the default ring tone, however and whenever their phone rings it makes the same old sound.
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.
You see ringtone promotions everywhere these days; offers of a free ring tone in exchange for signing on to an email list or other conditions. However, you can get these ringtones for a mere 99 cents, which if you ask me is a better deal than signing up to get a deluge of email. If your phone has a recording function, you can even make your own ringtones by recording a sound, even the voice of the caller you want to assign the ringtone to.
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.
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.
There are a lot of websites which sell ringtones either on a pay-per ringtone as well as on a subscription basis. When looking at subscription sites, make sure that they offer ringtones that you really want so that you’re not stuck with a bunch of ringtones which really aren’t to your taste.
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