Some basic things about the ringtones currently vailable for cell phone downlaod. [ Read More! ]

To get ringtones, wallpapers or themes to your mobile is easy and there are several good services to choose from. Not all are the same and maybe your service provider / operator doesnīt support all of them. Let us have a closer look. [ Read More! ]

Many people use Google to find 3g audio ringtones or free audio3g ringtones. What kind of ringtones are those 3gaudio ringtones then? I got curious and desided to find out. And of course I used Google too! First I had no luck. The searches for "3g audio ringtones" or "audio3g ringtones" gave just spam and bad results - no informaitive pages at all. I guess I have to figure out this by myself. If 3G stands for third-generation mobile telephone technology then 3G ringtones must have something to do with 3G - right? [ Read More! ]

Just surfed around the biggest ringtone web sites to check what ringtones or sounds are popular at the moment. On the top charts you can find ringtone themes like Pink Panther, Beverly Hills cop and Temrminator, but also good oldies like Tubular bells (Mike Oldfield). The charts for polyphonic, mono and musicsal MP3 ringtones vary somewhat. Top real sounds have voices of Yoda and Dirty Harry and sounds of old phones ringing. [ Read More! ]

There has been a lot of discussions (on cell phone forums) about MP3 music files and using them as ringtones. Many Vodafone users around the world report they cannot play MP3 music files on their cell phones. This seems to be a operator related issue. Someone pointed out that "Vodafone is known to restrict the mp3-ringtone feature on all its phones". Is there anything you can do? [ Read More! ]

Well you propably heard or seen on TV that "Crazy Frog"? Crazy Frog is the marketing title of a ringtone. The "Crazy Frog" ringtone is based on the sound of a revving Swedish moped (two-stroke moped engine) and is the first ringtone being used on cell phones to cross into mainstream music charts. [ Read More! ]

It all more or less started with the famous Nokia Tune, which is a 13 note rendering of Francisco Tarrega\'s masterpiece, Gran Vals. Tarrega, by the way, was a 19th-century Spanish musician. [ Read More! ]

First there were monophonic ringtones then came polyphonic ringtones (the midi format) and now we have ringtones that are the actual song. The format used for these better or high quality ringtones are mp3, AMR, WAV or AAC. These ringtones have different names depending on service provider, carrier, country etc and this is quite confusing. Tell us what should the name of these high quality ringtones be? Cast your wote! If you have other name ideas or comments use the Add comment below the poll.

For consumers its impossible to make any sense of the ringtone terminology. It\s very confusing as different words are being used to describe the same thing or when operators and phone companies invent their own brand names for ringtones. [ Read More! ]

Personalized ringback tones that replace the standard ringtones are now available in US. Ringback tones are the audio sounds heard by a caller while they wait for their connection to a called party to be completed. Personalized ringback tone services allow subscribers to select the ringback sounds heard by their callers, giving them an innovative way to differentiate and express themselves to their friends and business contacts through favorite song clips or sounds. [ Read More! ]

Ringtones generated about 120 million of business during 2004, according to figures released today by the financial services company KPMG. With digital replicas of hits now available as True tones or musical ringtones, the ringtones market is set to outperform CD singles and the online download market in 2005. [ Read More! ]

Don't get confused about the namings; mobile ringtones, cell phone tones, ring tones, ringingtones, ringer tones, tunes, melodies, master tones etc. - They all mean the same thing - the sound that your mobile phone makes when you have a call! The quality of the sound is however dependent on things like phone manufacturer, model and ringtone format. [ Read More! ]

Its natural that popular ringtones reflect the top chart listings of the music industry. There is also some universal similarity in the top chart listings. In August 2003 the universal top ringtone listings included names as Eminem, Scooter, 50 Cent, Benni Benassi and Sean Paul. [ Read More! ]

The Mobile content and marketing company Enpocket study about cell phone usage tells us that a definite trend has emerged, with 18-34 year olds regularly using cell phones to take pictures, and greedily consuming MMS, leaving their older counterparts way behind. [ Read More! ]

The technology related to cell phones and music is developing extremely fast at the moment. In 1999 we could download monophonic ringtones. 3 to 4 years later we got polyphonic ringtones, with multiple sounds. [ Read More! ]