Deliver A Song

Are you funny, entertaining, stylish or cool? Better be careful. Someone might be able to figure this out just by listening to your ringtone. There are many different types of ringtones to choose from and each says something different about you. Some ringtones are simply a sound effect, or a monophonic melody made of similar tones. Others are polyphonic melodies made from a combination of instruments. Still others are actual songs in the form of MP3 music. What ringtone fits your personality best? Some Web sites offer insights into this with ringtone personality quizzes. One asks such things as what your favorite style of music is, how fast you drive, how many CD’s you have at home, how often you go to live music shows, what your favorite color is and what your favorite pet is. It then assesses your personal style and comes up with recommendations of ringtones especially for you. (I was sophisticated and refined.) Of course, you may be the type who instinctively knows where to turn for your ringtones without such guidance. More power to you!

How did ringtones become such a prominent social force? According to the Web site the history-of.net, ringtones are European in origin with the first of these telephonic signatures sold in Finland in 2001. At the time, Finnish teenagers were heavily into text messaging and the Finns were trying to further develop their cellular technology. According to the history-of.net Web site, it was Matti Paananen, co-founder and chief technology officer at Helsinki-based Add2Phone, who invented the business of selling custom ring tones. As soon as American companies got wind of it, they too wanted to take advantage of the market. After all, there were 137 million Americans who spent around $70 billion a year on mobile telecommunications services. The American companies conducted market research that revealed that teenage and college girlsall who loved to talk on the phonewere the target customers. According to the history-of Web site, Boost Mobile, a prepaid cellular company majority-owned by Nextel, was the first to unveil a phone targeted at teenage girls who liked to surf the net and chat on their phones for lengthy periods. Their phones came with nearly 500 ring tones, and featured pop-music songs such as “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, “Like a Virgin”, “Funky Town”, “California Dreamin'”, and “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.” Sounds like the old transistor radios we used to hear around the beach.
As phones become fancier and even more technologically advanced, even more people will be able to take advantage of ever-evolving ring tone options. Analyst Dana Thorat at IDC, a technology research firm, estimates that 9.9 million people downloaded a ring tone in 2003, up from 4.8 million in 2002. IDC predicts that number will grow to 54.3 million by the end of 2007. Richard Jesty, an analyst at The Arc Group, a London-based telecommunications consulting firm, says, “Over time, the novelty will wear off, but not yet.” He expects that sales will remain strong through 2008, eventually hitting $5.2 billion worldwide.
So what ringtone will you choose to make your very own personal statement? Keep in mind that whatever one you select will say a lot about you.

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You may not be aware of it, but there is a certain skill involved in downloading ringtones to a cell phone. Here are some of the basics that you need to understand and master if you are serious about building up a nice collection of ringtones that will be available to you whenever you like.

One of the first things to remember is that there is no value in downloading ringtones to a cell phone that are not compatible with your make and model of cell phone. It should come as no surprise that there are different types of files that work on different types of phones. After all, look at the many different types of electronic documents that most of us work with each day. All are not created alike. So even if you come across a ringtone that really is a great one, don’t waste time and energy saving it on the off chance that someday you will have a phone that will accept the ringtone. There is plenty of time later on to find compatible file types when that day comes along.

Make sure that the ringtones you pick are right for you. What is the point of loading the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony if you don’t care for classical music? Go with something that is more in line with your personality, while still remaining within the perimeters of good taste, of course. You want your choice of cell phone downloads to say something positive about you, not be a point of evidence that your relatives can use to have you committed.

One misconception a lot of people have is that you have to download the ringtone directly to your phone. While you can, that is not necessarily the case. A number of cell phones are manufactured so that you can connect them to your computer hard drive via a USB cable and upload ringtones directly from your hard drive. This is actually a much better system, for two reasons.

First, chances are you can save quite a few more ringtones in a folder on your hard drive than you ever could on your cell phone. Second, the ringtones can be archived on a CDR, if you want to keep your collection safe and free from any type of hardware failure. After all, both computers and cell phones have been known to stop functioning. If you really want to be a serious collector of ringtones, then you want to keep your collection in a safe place. Download to your hard drive, then archive on disk.

While the mechanics of downloading ringtones to a cell phone are very simplistic, the sense of finesse behind what you choose and where you store it make ringtone downloading an art form in and of itself. By keeping a couple of simple ideas in mind, you can become a true artist of the ringtone download genre.

Craig Thornburrow
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