MP3 Ringtones: Customize Your Cell Phone

December 11th, 2009 at 10:27am Under Ringtone Type

Now that the cell phone units have been all around town and you could find somebody else having the same kind of unit as yours, it is nice and beneficial to have your cell phone customized to more accurately show your uniqueness and personality. You could buy your phone a unique housing and case that would suit your taste. Also, you could download pictures or animations that you could use as wallpaper or screensaver. And you could also get themes so that your phone has a similar feel all throughout.

However, the most common and fun part of customizing the cell phone is by changing your ringtones to something more personalized. The ringtones that come with your mobile phone when you purchase it are all defaults and you would most likely hear someone else, especially those that don’t care much about personalizing their phones, having the same default ringtone as yours.

When it has just started, mobile phones only support ringtones in monophonic format. It is the kind that only plays one sound at a time, just like when pressing the keys in your keypad. Later on, manufacturers began developing phones which are capable of handling polyphonic ring tones. It is an upgraded form of the monophonic in the sense that, as suggested by the name, there are more numbers of sounds that could be played simultaneously. So in essence, you could hear something that sounds very near to the real thing or the true tone. Nevertheless, they are still tone-based and do not sound very much like full music ringtones, together with its accompaniments, sound effects, and vocals.

Finally, due to technology, now, we experience the benefit of being able to play MP3 ringtones in our newest mobile phones. Same as what we play in the CD or in our PC, we could load our cell phones with the latest MP3 collections so that we hear full versions of the songs complete with vocals. So, you could choose your favorite song and have them as your ringtone! And what’s nice is that if you grow tired of that song, you could change it again to a song that fits your mood or taste at that moment.

So how do you actually get MP3 ringtones for your mobile phone? Customizing your cell phone through ringtones is quite easy. Just try these simple steps.

Download straight from your provider through your phone. Make sure that your phone is Internet-enabled so that you could browse your provider’s page and look for their available downloads. From there you could search their compilation of songs to choose from. Just one click and you will soon receive the MP3 ringtones of your choice. You will be charged according to your provider’s rate.

Search the Internet for free mobile phone ringtone downloads. There are lots of websites that offer this and you could either send it straight to your phone or download it to your PC and transfer it through Bluetooth or USB cable.

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How to Get Polyphonic Ringtones

May 20th, 2009 at 01:05pm Under Ringtone Type

First of all, what are polyphonic ringtones?

Let us answer that by means of comparison with the other types of ringtones available now.

The first generation cell phones have ringtones that are monophonic. This is a kind of ringtone wherein you just here one tone but it mimics the sound of a song. It’s like stripping down the song into its simplest form having only the most important tones played.

The latest mobile phones have enabled the playing of MP3 ringtones, which are also called true tones or full music tones. As you have guessed, it is the same as the music that we play in our CD and computers. They are full songs along with accompaniments, vocals, and other effects. They are most widely used today as they show the personality of the phone owner more.

Somewhere in the middle of the two aforementioned kinds of ringtones are the polyphonic ringtones. As suggested by the name, it could play several tones at a time. So, they are more complex than the monophonic ringtones. They sound somewhat more like the true tone but it still could not play the effects and the vocals. However, a lot of mobile phones available in the market still support this format.

When you buy your mobile phone, it is already equipped with a lot of choices for your polyphonic ringtones. Nevertheless, you might want to customize and personalize it a bit more so that you don’t get confused when you hear someone else’s phone ring with the same tone as yours.

So, how do you actually acquire personalized polyphonic ringtones, you ask? There are simple steps on how to obtain them.

Your provider has a WAP page that you could visit in your phone, given that it is Internet-ready and capable to browse. From there, you could search in its download folder the polyphonic ringtone that you want to get. Just click the link and the ringtone will be sent to you in no time. Of course, you would have to pay for it depending on the rates of your mobile provider.

If you are unsure how to browse through your mobile phone or if it is not yet Internet-capable, your provider also has special numbers wherein you could send the code for your polyphonic ringtone of choice. You just have to know this through advertisements or in their website. The provider will then send the ringtone to your phone instantly, again with a minimal fee.

But if you are more comfortable in browsing the Internet through your computer, you could search in your favorite engine the available ringtones in various websites. There are actually lots to choose from. If you find the best ringtone for you, have it sent to your phone with just one click or your could download it to your computer and transfer it to your phone via Bluetooth or a USB cable. You would need to pay for some of them but there are a lot of ringtones that you could download for free.

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