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ringtone

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ringtone
The audible sound made by a telephone to announce that a call is coming in. The traditional ringtone was in the 440-480 Hz range, but as cellphone usage grew, it became obvious that ringtone differentiation would become important. Modern cellphones support a wide frequency range that allows for several bars of music to be played. Phones come with a selection of built-in ringtones and accept new ones from one or more ringtone services that are downloaded for a fee. Ringtones have become a fad, providing another mode of self-expression.

MP3 has become popular as a ringtone format because it supports voice. MIDI and Nokia's RTTTL (Ringing Tones Text Transfer Language) formats are used, but for music only. Depending on the phone and format, ringtones can be sent via text messages (SMS), but there is no standard for ringtone transfer for all phones and services. See moantone and Mosquitotone.
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Settling such ringtone to one particular caller comes with many benefits such as you can simply ignore or pick-up the phone giving priority by listening to particular melody.
Ringtones?Colorful Melodies on Your Mobile Phones by Andrew Bruten / Telecommunications industry community
An MP3 ringtone is so much more attractive and compelling to hear compared to the very artificial sounds of polyphonic and midi ringtones ?
Rippin' & Ringin' - How to Transform Songs from Your CD into Mp3 ... by sandeep kumar / Advertising, marketing, public relations community
Landlines and cell phones have different ring tones While most landline phones have only one ringtone (the familiar brrrrrring sound), cell phones give you a lot of options Landlines and cell phones have different ring tones.
Oh Those Crazy Ringtones by Gray Rollins / Computers and Internet community
 
 
 
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