You Can Have Fun With Cell Phone Ring Tones

| Saturday, March 12, 2011
By Owen Jones


Everybody has a mobile phone these days. They all come out of their factories with their company's standard settings on them, so they all come out the same. All Nokias, all Sony-Ericssons are the same and all Samsungs are the same.

Millions and millions of them, all the same. However, they all, each single one of them have the potential of being customized in hundreds, if not thousands of combinations.

The majority of cell phones have at least twelve different ring tones; twelve different screen savers, twelve different wallpapers, twelve different themes and twelve different colour schemes and some have twenty or more of every.

It is also possible to download additional variations and occasionally even to make your own. This means that there are normally thousands ofmethods of customizing your cell phone.

Although most people do not go to the bother of switching the wallpaper, screen saver or theme, most individuals do experiment with the ring tone. Older people may merely use one of the standard ring tones that came with the phone, but younger people are more likely to either buy a ring tone or download one of the thousands of free ones available on line.

One difficulty for ring tone enthusiasts was (or even still is for some) that there is no real standardization of the music format between the cell phone manufacturers. This means that a ring tone in Samsung format will not play on a Nokia et cetera. This resulted in the development of ring tone converters, although some phones cannot make use of them.

Another way of overcoming this is to upload your ring tone to an on line converter, convert it then either SMS it back to your cell phone or download it to a computer and transfer it to your phone by wire or by Bluetooth. It is all too much trouble for most older people, although it is quite simple after you have done it once or twice.

Other cell phones have a composer built in. These composers are fairly basic in some phones, yet others allow polyphonic composition. However, it can get quite tedious to compose a good tune, so this is one for the serious customizer with time on his or her hands only.

One function that practically all cell phones have, and which most people do not use to the full is assigning different ring tones to different individuals or categories of individuals. For example, you could have one ring tone for your parents or spouse and one for your home landline. Then if you hear those ring tones, you know that you should answer it.

You could have one for your friends, so that even without glancing at the screen, you know that you could have an amusing conversation to cheer up your day and you could have one for your boss so that you know to ignore it if it rings outside working hours.

It is entertaining to personalize your cell phone and it can be achieved fairly quickly once you get going and it helps to while away half an hour next time you are waiting for a train.




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