What exactly are ring tones and where did they come from?

A ringer or ring tone is just a sound that a phone makes to tell people that they have a phone call. Of course ringtones have been around as long as telephones have been around, it’s just that a long time ago every phone had the same ringtone. They came with the phone. Of course we’re talking about fixed land phones here.

But even in the early days of mobile or cell phones you just got a ring tone with the phone. No options. It sounded like a normal fixed phone ringer too.

But as time progressed things changed. In 1998 in Finland the first commercial ring tones came out. A new service came out called Harmonium. Harmonium allowed users to create monophonic ringers so people could create and download their own ring tone.

That was just the start and it didn’t take too long before large companies saw commercial mileage to be made from ring tones for cell phones and the revolution in ringers began.

By 2005 the ringtone industry generated over $2 billion in revenue, a staggering amount of money for something as simple as a sound made by a mobile phone when someone calls it. Read the rest of this entry

You’ll see lots of information about polyphonic and monophonice ringtones, but what are they?

Polyphonic ringers. A fancy name, but what does it mean? Monophonic ringers. Same deal.

A polyphonic ring tone (a poly tone) can create multiple tones or musical notes at the same time. It’s a reproduction or creation of the sound, rather than a recording of it, however it produces an excellent reproduction and hence a great ringer for your mobile phone.

And of course it depends on the quality of your cell phone. Different phones have different capacities to reproduce or simulate notes simultaneously. Some up to 72 at the same time.

So what are monophonic ringers? Well as polyphonic ringers can reproduce a number of notes at the same time, monophonic ones only reproduce one.

Is there more? How about real music ring tones. What are they? Real music ringers can reproduce the actual music itself. Poly tones simulate the music by a combination of sounds, but real music ringers actually reproduce the music itself. And that way it can reproduce vocals for instance.

And there’s even more. Truetones. What are they? True tones (sometimes calle realtone, mastertone, or superphonic ringtone) are ring tones that are made from high quality formats like mmp3. These are high quality ring tones and are becoming more and more popular as our insatiable appetite for hot new and high quality ringers increases. Read the rest of this entry

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Annoying isn’t it? You find so called free ringers for your cell phone and when you finally get to the point of download they don’t turn out to be so free after all?

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After all, it’s only a little tune isn’t it, why should you need to pay for them? A good cell phone ringtone should be handed around. Made available to everyone for download.

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