Ringtones in 3 Easy Steps

The process of getting new ringtones for your mobile phone is extremely easy and convenient at www.coolnewtones.com . It's a simple 3 step process. Unlike many other sites, you will get to Preview Fergie Ringtones to find what you like. It's really fun to hear all the possibilities. Also know that when you join this ringtone site, you get access to all of the tones, mobile games, screen savers and animations. It's really a worthwhile service and ads value and individuality to your cell phone.

Step 1, choose your carrier above and enter your mobile phone number.
Step 2, confirm your PIN which will be sent to your cell phone for you to enter on a web form.
Step 3, choose your ringtones.

That's it! Easy. You don't even have to have a credit card or anything like that.

In addition, many sites will give you a certain number of complimentary ringtones to thank you for your membership. This is a really good deal and you can get these complimentary bonus tones when you join the ringtone sites above.

Types of Ring Tones

In summary, the 3 types of ringtones are monophonic, polyphonic and true tones or real tones.

Monophonic

Monophonic ringtones can only play single melody lines with one note playing at a time. The ringtone is totally electronic in that it depends on the phones limited onboard synthesizer or oscillator to produce it's tone. As stated before, one of the first monophonic ringtones to make the leap from plain ringer to actual musical tune was the Nokia Song. The 13 notes of the Nokia tune are etched into our collective memories of the 90's and were derived from the composition Gran VaIs by 19th century Spanish musician, Francisco Tarrega.

Polyphonic

In 2002, the Nokia 3510 mobile phone made a ringtone milestone. It was the first phone optimized for playing polyphonic ringtones. Other cell phone makers soon adapted the general midi standard to render more realistic ringtones with more consistent renditions across a wide variety of compatible phones. Polyphonic phones had the capability unlike monophonic phones of playing more than one note at once. Some phones had a polyphony of up to 16 notes at a time however as the technology increased, so did the amount of voices. Thus some modern smart phones such as the BlackBerry Perl have 72 voice polyphony or more.

Real Tones

Often called "Real tones" or Nokia "TrueTones" or Motorola "Groove Tones" ( each manufacturer seemed to come up with their own corporate marketing term for the same thing), These Real Tones were actual recordings. Soon song snippets, to celebrity voices, like Al Pacino's Scar face could be triggered as a mobile phone ringtone. Ringtones soon became an outlet for self expression, humor, sometimes obnoxiousness or perhaps even annoyance as in the case of the Crazy Frog.

Ringback Tones

Inovated mainly in Korea and Asia, the ringback tone is gaining populartiy in Europe and is just beginning to emerge in North America. There is some technology updating involved for the carriers that has to take place to facilitate the use of ringback tones. This is starting to happen and cell phone carriers like Verizon are really taking the lead in the United States. The Ringback tone is heard by callers when they call you. With phones and carriers that have RBT (ringback tone) capability, you can assign selected ringtones to ringback for various numbers in your address book. Thus you could have a custom ringback for a certain individual while everyone else could get your standard ringback tone. The ability to assign different tones to different numbers opens up many possibilities in communication; you could choose songs that send a message to the particular caller. What a great way to flirt when getting a call from a new aquaintance.

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