There is a wide range of mobile phone ring tones to choose from for cell phone subscribers. These can be pop music, the howling of different animals, the shouting of mother nature like the sound of the rain, the echoes from the mountains, to name a few. It seems that almost any sound in the world can be used as a ring tone in any mobile phone. Some people would choose to download the sound of sea which always gives a feeling of peace; some are fond of using the sounds of animals like the barking of a dog, the howling of a wolf or a pack of wolves which really sound thrilling; some enjoy themselves with funny ring tones - well, it's kind of impossible to list them all. After all, tastes differ from individual to individual.
It will be full of fun and can be quite practical for you to set different ring tones in your phone for individual numbers. By doing so you will spot out the person in no minute who is calling you by the special ring tone you set for him or her. Here is an example. You can set a loving song which is a little heart touching for your loved one; you can choose the sound of thundering for your somewhat strict father and mild ring tone like the sound of piano for your mother. As for your friends, you can also have plenty of ring tones to choose from. Every sound in the world you can think of can be used as ring tones even the crying of a newly born baby can be used as a ringtone. I remember vividly one of my roommates recorded the barking of her dog and set it as a ring tone on her cell phone. Every time her father or mother called her, our dormitory would be filled with the sound of a barking dog. No matter what, these special ring tones really add much more fun to our daily lives!
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Ringtone Evolution - Past and Future of Mobile Ringers
You would not see any phone released in the market without any built-in ringtones. That is for sure. Today's mobile phones are capable of playing superb quality mp3 music file as ringers. These are audio files that can be used by mobile phone to alert users of incoming call or text messages.
Do you ever wonder how these mp3 files or shall we say music files came portable on mobile phones? Let try to discover the past and the future mobile ringtones as everyone is getting addicted to it.
The first mobile phone suited with built-in ringtone was released in Japan by the year 1996. It gathered great support from the public and became very popular. Due to the popularity of this mobile phone a newer version was released in the same year, but this time consumers where provided with the option to compose their own melodies. This is how we are approached with today's ringtone industry that will soon have its own spotlight in the entertainment industry.
Older mobile phones were only capable of playing monophonic tones. These tones are composed with several notes, but played one note at a time. Polyphonic tones came to join the monophonic tones dominion on mobile phones and soon replaced it with its superb audible qualities. Manufacturers started developing mobile that can play both monophonic tones and polyphonic tones.
With the introduction of newer versions of mobile phones and smart phones a new type of ringtone emerged. The advent of truetones was the result of better quality software and hardware installed on mobile phones. Truetones are played like normal audio files that a user can hear the voice of the artist and the accompaniment. Mobile phones that are truetone compatible are mostly preferred by millions of user world wide.
The future of the ringtone industry is straight forward. In April in Canada, awards were given to top downloaded mobile phone ringers. A total of 43 awards were given in recognition to the success of the ringers in terms of download. This was the first time that mobile phone ringers were given recognition such as platinum and gold awards.
A researched conducted by Juniper Research surfaced that the mobile phone tone industry will gathered an estimated collection of $14 billion by the year 2011. Can you believe it? Yes, this is possible since mobile phone owners interested in downloading phone melodies are increasing. It is estimated that by next year the industry will be able to gather $9 billion for tone downloads.
If anyone wants to read and know more about Mobile Ringtone and Downloads,
please visit my site :
http://www.jayanthudar.com
http://hubpages.com/hub/mobile-ringtone
http://www.squidoo.com/mobile-ringtone
Do you ever wonder how these mp3 files or shall we say music files came portable on mobile phones? Let try to discover the past and the future mobile ringtones as everyone is getting addicted to it.
The first mobile phone suited with built-in ringtone was released in Japan by the year 1996. It gathered great support from the public and became very popular. Due to the popularity of this mobile phone a newer version was released in the same year, but this time consumers where provided with the option to compose their own melodies. This is how we are approached with today's ringtone industry that will soon have its own spotlight in the entertainment industry.
Older mobile phones were only capable of playing monophonic tones. These tones are composed with several notes, but played one note at a time. Polyphonic tones came to join the monophonic tones dominion on mobile phones and soon replaced it with its superb audible qualities. Manufacturers started developing mobile that can play both monophonic tones and polyphonic tones.
With the introduction of newer versions of mobile phones and smart phones a new type of ringtone emerged. The advent of truetones was the result of better quality software and hardware installed on mobile phones. Truetones are played like normal audio files that a user can hear the voice of the artist and the accompaniment. Mobile phones that are truetone compatible are mostly preferred by millions of user world wide.
The future of the ringtone industry is straight forward. In April in Canada, awards were given to top downloaded mobile phone ringers. A total of 43 awards were given in recognition to the success of the ringers in terms of download. This was the first time that mobile phone ringers were given recognition such as platinum and gold awards.
A researched conducted by Juniper Research surfaced that the mobile phone tone industry will gathered an estimated collection of $14 billion by the year 2011. Can you believe it? Yes, this is possible since mobile phone owners interested in downloading phone melodies are increasing. It is estimated that by next year the industry will be able to gather $9 billion for tone downloads.
If anyone wants to read and know more about Mobile Ringtone and Downloads,
please visit my site :
http://www.jayanthudar.com
http://hubpages.com/hub/mobile-ringtone
http://www.squidoo.com/mobile-ringtone
A Tribute to the Inventor of Ringtones
Remember the "ancient times", when your cell phone had just two ring options: a shrill, electronic trill, or a scratchy melody (something incredibly dull, like Fur Elise) that came with the unit?
Those miserable days are over, thanks to the innovations introduced by a Finnish computer programmer named Vesa-Matti Paananen. When Nokia, the company he worked for, started experimenting with a nifty function called "smart messaging", he was hit with a brilliant idea. If people could send text messages to each other, this same software could be used to deliver other types of information, such as the codes of songs. Paananen went straight to work, and came up with a program he dubbed "Harmonium".
Harmonium was rough by today's standards, but it set the foundation for the multi billion ringtone industry. It let people program musical sequences into their phones which they could forward to their friends. Users were no longer confined to the songs that were packaged into the units. The invention could've made him a billionaire, but Paananen also generously made Harmonium a freeware, ready to download from the Internet for free. Everyone could use it-and because of this, everyone did, and the phone ringtones started to proliferate.
Some phone ringtones were made by private individuals who just liked tinkering with the program or wanted to proudly share their creations with the rest of the world. Others collected these ringtones into one site (the pioneers of the multitude of ringtone providers you can now find on the web). Still others were companies that took Harmonium's basic structure and put their engineers to work at developing it. They saw the potential in the software but wanted a richer, more realistic musical quality.
These companies were responsible for the leaps and jumps in ringtone technology. From the monophonic ringtones in Harmonium, they developed polyphonic ringtones, which synthesized various notes similar to those found in music boxes. The latest development is the true tone. These true tones are completely indistinguishable from the songs played on the radio, for the simple reason that they are actually recorded in a studio. Think of them as mini-music, a highly compressed excerpt from a full-length song.
Of course, these developments would not have been made possible without the improvements in the phone itself. The first units were large, clunky handsets with very little memory capacity. Songs were scratchy simply because there was very little room for complicated programs. (In fact, the first units could only hold a maximum of five or six ringtones.) Today's phones are actually more powerful than the first computers. They can not only hold vast amounts of information-video footage, large photo files, and a hundred ringtones)-users can extend this capacity with a portable memory chip.
To think this all started with a big idea by a brilliant engineer with a big heart.
If anyone wants to read and know more about Mobile Ringtone and Downloads,
please visit my site :
http://www.jayanthudar.com
http://hubpages.com/hub/mobile-ringtone
http://www.squidoo.com/mobile-ringtone
Those miserable days are over, thanks to the innovations introduced by a Finnish computer programmer named Vesa-Matti Paananen. When Nokia, the company he worked for, started experimenting with a nifty function called "smart messaging", he was hit with a brilliant idea. If people could send text messages to each other, this same software could be used to deliver other types of information, such as the codes of songs. Paananen went straight to work, and came up with a program he dubbed "Harmonium".
Harmonium was rough by today's standards, but it set the foundation for the multi billion ringtone industry. It let people program musical sequences into their phones which they could forward to their friends. Users were no longer confined to the songs that were packaged into the units. The invention could've made him a billionaire, but Paananen also generously made Harmonium a freeware, ready to download from the Internet for free. Everyone could use it-and because of this, everyone did, and the phone ringtones started to proliferate.
Some phone ringtones were made by private individuals who just liked tinkering with the program or wanted to proudly share their creations with the rest of the world. Others collected these ringtones into one site (the pioneers of the multitude of ringtone providers you can now find on the web). Still others were companies that took Harmonium's basic structure and put their engineers to work at developing it. They saw the potential in the software but wanted a richer, more realistic musical quality.
These companies were responsible for the leaps and jumps in ringtone technology. From the monophonic ringtones in Harmonium, they developed polyphonic ringtones, which synthesized various notes similar to those found in music boxes. The latest development is the true tone. These true tones are completely indistinguishable from the songs played on the radio, for the simple reason that they are actually recorded in a studio. Think of them as mini-music, a highly compressed excerpt from a full-length song.
Of course, these developments would not have been made possible without the improvements in the phone itself. The first units were large, clunky handsets with very little memory capacity. Songs were scratchy simply because there was very little room for complicated programs. (In fact, the first units could only hold a maximum of five or six ringtones.) Today's phones are actually more powerful than the first computers. They can not only hold vast amounts of information-video footage, large photo files, and a hundred ringtones)-users can extend this capacity with a portable memory chip.
To think this all started with a big idea by a brilliant engineer with a big heart.
If anyone wants to read and know more about Mobile Ringtone and Downloads,
please visit my site :
http://www.jayanthudar.com
http://hubpages.com/hub/mobile-ringtone
http://www.squidoo.com/mobile-ringtone
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