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.
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