Thursday, December 18, 2008

Getting Free 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 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.

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.

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.

I've got about five ring tones on my phone and I rotate them around. I keep one special for my wife and a different one for my son who just got a cell phone; he's 8 and technologically advanced. I've got a college fight song for a buddy and knowing whose calling saves you the hassle of answering a call from somebody who misdialed or from a call wanting 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.

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. - 16492

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