Rule number one. A ringtone knows no irony.
Being born on the trailing edge of Generation X, it's hard for me to accept that anything can be without irony, but the ringtone is the inevitable exception. It's funny to you and your mates, of course. It's the Superman theme, right? Because Steve, mild-mannered accountant transforms int... Well, see how far into that explanation you get on the train, with thirty people staring at you including the girl who, ten seconds ago, seemed quite receptive to being chatted up.
Your ringtone isn't just for you, you see. It's part of your persona. It's what you wear. Except even the loudest shirts don't broadcast their owner's taste quite as far.
Rule number two. That dance number? The one that's been rattling round your head ever since last night at the club? Give it up. You're sober now, and your four-tone polyphonic beeping can't quite capture the same mood as that 50,000 Watt sound system.
In the modern age of polyphonic ringtones, everyone who hears your mobile ring and recognises a non-standard tune is going to be thinking "He paid for that."
My preference is to pick something that sounds like it's a phone ringing, not a Casiotone throwback.
The default tones are safest, the ones that come packaged with the phone, except that every phone has precisely one (1) default tone that doesn't sound like arse. The Sony Ericsson T610, for example, has one halfway-decent tone that sounds like an old-fashioned mechanical phone. Unfortunately, since everyone in Sydney has the same bloody phone, it's inevitable that eventually you'll have to share space with someone who made the same choice, and jump every time his phone rings.
Rule number three. There is a special circle of Hell reserved for people who, on buying a new phone, cycle through every single available tone on the bus or train on the way home.
I'm a fan of having no ringtone at all. My phone vibrates in my posket on the rare, rare occasion that I get a call, and I get annoyed at having to listen to everyone's glitzy and infinitely corny ringtones. Inevitably I miss calls sometimes, because my phone is a couple of years old and in the breakdown stage all Nokias get to. However I can always check my call log and call someone back if I think it's really important.
I hardly use my phone these days, anyway, so who am I to comment? :-P
Everyone these days seems to have the tune from The A-Team or Starksy and Hutch on their phones.
Irony has gone mainstream.
>halfway-decent tone that sounds like an old-fashioned mechanical phone
I am sorry, but I find that tone highly annoying, but maybe that is because everyone I saw using it, had it ring at a loudness that almost made my ears bleed.
I am glad that more recent phones have the Option of using MP3s as ringtomes. Before you flame: Hold on, I am with Ashley in that most of the time I use the vibration alert, however sometimes thaqt is not quiet the best solutio, and then I resort to using sound-samples in the form of MP3s. A (submarine) Sonar-Beep or a very characteristic wood creaking or paper crunching sound will not draw a lot more attention than other more or less known/usual sounds, but at the same time you will know it well enough that to instantly recognize it.
Getting "professionally" recorded samples (from CDs or from Websites offering samples from their Sample-CDs) will sound a lot better than trying to record it yourself, though.
Another great thing is, that you can add in several seconds of silence at the end of the sample! Usually people will know there is someone calling after the first bit of ringing, no need to have it ring along while getting it out of the pocket and taking a peek at who the caller is. I never understood why this has never become a standard feature with ringtones.
My mate has a brilliant ringtone. He simply recorded his voice saying "Phone... Phone... Phone... Phone.." each time the word just ever so slightly more exasperated.
I went and wrote my own. It look me a while before I could come up with one that wasn't annoying or shrill. In the end, I wrote a short classical piece that doesn't suck and that, I think, suits me.
The good thing about it is, and the reason I wrote it, is that it's completely unique.
Before that, it was the default ring tone.
Oh, that's true. Sometimes if I'm at home and I'm expecting a call, I'll turn on the default Nokia ringtone of Dom Joly fame. It's so standard that no one uses it except for laughs, and I don't enable it often anyway.
Vibrate for me except for those times when I like to groove to a bit of disco smooth, head-bopping "Hello, Moto!". (Nod head and mouth 'hello, moto' along with phone to completely baffle innocent bystanders.)
The pressure of choosing a ringtone to define my persona has resulted in me sliding back to late 80s and early 90s era of not having a mobile. Remember those times? I have a landline phone that sounds like a phone.
"is going to be thinking “He paid for that.”" - er, well probably not, unless the phone belongs to an under-10 or an over-40 I'd guess (wide margins but hey)
...The trailing edge of Generation X? Hey! I AM generation X. I thought I was pretty young, until I read that personification...Wait a minute...Looking in the mirror...Um, oh yeah...I forgot...I am Old. Bummer.
BUT, I remember when beepers were the sign of affluence. I had a job as an outside claims rep, and I was SO excited when I got my beeper. How important was I? I was on the same playing field as doctors, lawyers, and street-walkers! Cool!
In fact, as a generation X-er, the only cell phones I grew up with, were the ones I saw on TV during my favorite episode of Emergency! Gen-x'ers...You guys know what I'm talking about!
In any event, polyphonic ring tones, much like most of pop-tech exploding on the cell phone markets, is pretty stupid. I'm sick of listening to the first 3 seconds of Fur Elise...All day...Schroeder, would most CERTAINLY, not approve.
everytime a mobile rings,
a cancer angel gets it's wings.
Well, I have a non-standard ring tone, and I *didn't* pay for it thankyou very much, so there.
No what I did was spend hours looking for it as a midi available free on the web and then converting it to.....
actually never mind.
i want the ring tones for nokia mobile 3120model pls do the needful
i want the ring tones for nokia mobile 3120 model pls do the needful