Has anyone seen the commercial for the Nokia phone that will play Uncle Kracker’s “Follow Me” as it’s ring tone? I swear that phone will become a permanent bodily fixture on the first person that subjects me to hearing that. Does ANYONE like hearing full songs chirping away whenever someone’s phone rings?? It can’t be just me.
In other news:
http://www.mobile.att.net/ringtones/tones/tones3.html
I program my own. And I don’t care what people think.
Last month, it was Van Halen’s “Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love.”
This month, it’s the opening riff to “Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses.
Actually, the only thing that chafes me about ring tones is when people never change it, or leave it set on a popular tone that everyone else has. I swear, if I hear Fur Elise one more time, I’m going to scream.
I had mine set to revelie for a long time but my new phone doesn’t have it. Not too many people had this tune so I whould know when someone was calling me - oh that phone didn’t have a vibrate. Well actually I could get a vibrating battery but that shortened the run time.
Ughhh. The guy in the next cube has one of those obnoxious rings. I can’t quite identify the tune, but I’m sure it’s somehow sports related. I think it might be his college’s fight song.
I may have to give the guy an involuntary cell phone enema soon. Not only does he have this awful noise, but he has it set to a high volume. Plus, he’s one of these types that is always on the phone and he uses his cell phone to avoid getting picked up by the company’s phone-abuse system. The damn thing is constantly going off. The capper on all this is that he doesn’t answer the thing right away. I’ve asked him about this and he says that a) he likes the tune, and b) he doesn’t want to answer too quickly and appear desperate for conversation. So it typically goes off for at least 5-10 seconds.
A drinking buddy of mine sells cell phones and has an amazing variety of tones for his phone, heck, he even scripted some himself. 'Course, I hate them all and they irritate the piss out of me. Luckily, he answers quickly, or I’d be forced to do something cruel.
In the instances where someone leaves their phone on the table and wanders off (it a mobile phone, people, mobile, it’s supposed to travel with you), I like to change the settings so that it reads in Chinese or Russian instead of English. Figure out your stupid phone now, chuckle-nuts.
Umm, not having a cell phone, I am but an innocent in these matters . . . But wouldn’t one shy, cricket-like “beep” serve just as well and annoy people less than, say, the all-elf xylophone version of The Anvil Chorus, which I hear going off on the train all the time? Or do people purposely think, “well, screaming into my cell phone in public isn’t annoying ENOUGH, I’ll also make the ring royally piss off eveyone within a two-mile radius?”
I frequently recieve calls while in loud places i.e. the streets of Manhattan. a low volumn is not going to get noticed by me. As such I have to keep my volunm at the loudest possibled all the time because I’m not going to fumble through the controls to ahjust it when I enter a quite place.
my new phone has a manners mode - by holding the * key down it goes into silent vibrate mode very nice and something I can actually use to ajust the ring on the go.
I revile “Reveille”, and “Fur Elise” makes me furious. But the one ring that toasts me the most is the default “Nokia” ring. All these technologically-impaired people (you know, the ones who make it impossible to get through to tech support lines) get cell phones, and have no idea how to change the ring. I was at a pool hall two nights ago, and three phones rang with that tune (“Grande Valse” - yeah right) all at once, causing not only the three phone owners, but about half of the others in the place, to reach for their phones frantically.
I chose a very distinctive ring for my phone. It’s “ROBO_N1X”, which is annoying to some, but I hardly ever hear it on another person’s phone. I keep my phone close to me, even at work (even during lunch breaks), so I can answer it as soon as possible. I do have the ring set to a high volume, but that’s just because I work in a noisy environment. And I always either turn the ringer off or leave my phone in my car when I go to the movies. After all, I am spending $8.75 to watch a movie, not to talk on the phone, which I can do for free.
As for customizable ring tones, I can’t see why you need to have an Eminem or Britney Spears ring, or even a Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd ring, or whatever. But at least show some consideration, and expose the rest of us to as little of your favorite Pearl Jam tune as possible, OK?
If it were the actual music, that would be cool. But it’s just some MIDI sounding suck ass version of the song, right?
Besides, I don’t mind when someone’s cell phone rings. At least they’re using the damn thing. It’s the people that walk around with the thing on their belt, like they’re some kind of telecommunications cowboy. It’s like they treat the thing as jewelry.
Or maybe I’m just jealous that I don’t have one.
Ah, but Scott, next spring when you and I are strolling down the Praterstrasse the banks of the Danube, and a thousand cell phones all burst gaily into the “Grande Valse,” how we shall twirl and waltz our way into the hearts of the multitudes!
—“Marie Vetsera”
Actually, I wear it on my belt so that I can leave it on vibrate all the time and never have to annoy anyone with it ringing. I also never have to worry about not hearing it.