Free cell phone ringers come and go. Here’s a new approach.

The landscape for free ringtones changes all the time. What’s free today you’ll have to pay for tomorrow. So what we told you about yesterday may be different today.

So here’s another video about a new method to get some free ring tones. We have to tell you we haven’t tried it yet but thought we’d put it right up here straight away as soon as we saw it so anyone can try it for themselves.

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Feel like making a ringer yourself? It’s quite possible to do.

Everyone is online searching for free ringers to download. And there’s nothing wrong with that. If you can get a hot new ring tone for free then why not download it and use it? It’s free.

Of course if you’re used to paying for a new ring tone then it may come as a surprise to learn that as well as downloading your ringers for free you can also make ringtones for your cell phones – yourself.

Personally we can’t see the point when you can download free cell phone ringers, it takes a while to do, and you need a little computer nerd in you, but there’s lots of people who’d love the challenge of creating their own ring tone that is theirs alone. Read the rest of this entry

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