Do All Cell Phones Have Equivalent Ringtone Devices?

The Mobile Phone ringtone industry reached a $4 billion dollars mark with an estimated $300 million dollars alone in the United States, according to the financial reports. The new generation of cell phones with programmable ringtones are driving the consumers crazy and providing a much-needed boost to the music industry's bottom line. Looking at these statistics, any one can just figure out the obsession behind ringtones! Definitely, ringtones have emerged as an advertising tool and are a potential source of revenue for the music industry.

Of all the features presented by the various mobile phone manufactures world wide, ringtones have been the most coveted of all of them. Mobile phone users, today are able to customize and personalize the ringtones to reveal their personality or mood. Some models also allow the user to use different sounds for different callers.

The first of all mobile phones were offering monophonic ringtones, which were able to produce sounds using one single note at a time. However, as technology developed, so did the ringtones! The upcoming models launched by Nokia and Ericsson have advanced features which allow programmable ringtones. This ground breaking technology allows multiple notes to be played together. Some Nokia mobile phone models are now giving its customers the pleasure of real time ringtones. These are actually recorded sound which are then played as ringtones.

Without a doubt, not all the models present in the market offer the possibility to accept personalized ringtones. Some phones like Nokia and Motorola have a melody composer, but do not allow the polyphonic ringtones. Some phone models only play 16 simultaneous voices while other models play 32 or even more.

After you have purchased your model, you need to check what kind of Ringtone format will work for your mobile phone :

1.First, you try to add the ringtones from the ringtone compatibility list.

2.Check with the help of a Melody Composer. Look into the mobile phone manual for keywords such as "Ringtone Composer", "My Melodies", "Melody Composer" or other similar expressions.

3.There are 3 ways you can add up ringtones to your mobile phone. 1- type in the notes directly on the phone using the "Melody Composer"; 2- Sending it to your phone via SMS and 3- Transferring it from your computer to the phone using a cable.

4.Check out of your phone offers the option for "Downloadable Ringtones"?

5.If none of the above option is available with your models, then the last option you can try out is to transfer ringtones from your computer to the phone. This option is most common with Kyocera, Nokia and Sanyo phones.

6.A software that will help you out is the Nokia PC suite, which lets you to transfer ringtones.

7.Now that you have a better idea of which format applies to your phone, go back to the ringtone you were trying to get or browse some ringtones on the internet.

8.Once you select a ringtone from a website, you will have a choice of various ringtone formats and specific instructions will be provided later.