Everytime I see one of commercials where you can buy ringtones I ask myself
“Why doesn’t the phone just come with a built in recorder so you can record whatever type sound you want for your ring?”
I see them in toys all the time. Hold down a button to record, hit play to play it back.
It seems all too easy to then just record whatever song clip or noise you like from your own stereo and use it as a ringer.
Are there phones out there that already have this?
Just a gues, but it seems to me the obvious answer is “because then they couldn’t sell you ringtones”.
I miss my first cell phone – you could write your own ringtones on it. Just type in the notes, and it became your ring tone. I had a blast playing with that feature.
Maybe 'cause my phone doesn’t have a recorder or Bluetooth and there’s no other way (that I’m aware of) to get the song to work as my ringtone? I don’t think it’s being a “nimrod” or “stupid” to fork over an extra buck in order to be happy every time my cell phone rings.
The OP’s question is about buying ringtones vs acquiring them in some other way. I am puzzled by another question: what is the big deal with ring tones? I have used three mobile phones over eight years and I have been perfectly happy with their choice of preprogrammed ringtones. It’s a signal something that I hear perhaps 5-10 times a day for perhaps 2 seconds - why bother spending money and effort customizing it at all?
Well then we’ll have to agree to disagree. Still seems to be a pretty stupid use of funds…and I hope the other people around you are happy at your choice in ringtones. :rolleyes:
Because your life is so empty that you need the attention you get when someone calls your cell phone and the latest Ludacris song starts playing. You’re not just anyone – no, you’re someone who listens to pop music, dammit!
I customized my ringtones so that I would know it was my phone ringing; I was tired of hearing my “generic” ringtone on other peoples’ phones and thinking it was mine.
I also like having person-specific ringtones so that I know who’s calling without looking at my phone. Very handy when somebody calls me while I’m asleep; I can decide instantly whether or not to roll over and answer it without even opening an eye. (This is more than usually handy with the hours I keep. Nobody respects a bartender’s sleep. “You’re STILL asleep?” Ye gods, people. I don’t get any more sleep than you do! I just get it at unusual hours!)
Plus ringing phones are annoying. I’d rather hear a cool song. Yes, I’ll admit it.
I just got a new phone last week. There are only five standard ringtones, and they are the most annoying things I have ever heard in my life.
One is fingernails on a chalkboard, another is an infant crying, the third is someone chewing ice, another is a clip of a profanity-laced 50 Cent song, and the last is a clip of Bush talking about bringing freedom to Iraq.
Well, not really, but they are just as grating. In any case, I’m going to buy a “normal” ringtone soon.
Exactly what she said. When I customize a ring tone, I know without looking that it’s mine, because the stuff I pick for a ring tone is not generally popular stuff. And being able to know who is calling by the ringtone makes it easy to know if I really need to fish around in my person to answer it, or if they can just go on to voicemail (although, I haven’t let anyone go to voicemail in a seriously long time). And finally, it’s just much more pleasant sounding, especially with the Real Music type ringtones that are available.
The guy across the hall from me has a ringtone that sounds like a Red Alert on the Starship Enterprise. I would gladly buy him a ringtone if he would change it.
My phone rings much less often than that, but – like others have said – I really didn’t like any of the rings that my phone came with. They were either completely obnoxious, or difficult to hear (even at their loudest). This is my third cell phone, but the first one that I bothered getting a ringtone for: on the other phones, the built-in rings were fine. I also like that I no longer have a generic “ringing cell phone” sound – as others have also said, it helps me identify when it’s my phone that’s ringing.
So much hatred toward ringtones and the people who download them! :eek: I don’t get what the big deal is: if I want to spend $2 on something that makes me smile a handful of times a week – and that other people hardly ever hear – how does that make my life empty?
Besides, it’s not Ludacris, it’s AC/DC.
I don’t see how a whopping $1 can be considered “funds,” but whatever – agree to disagree, yadda yadda yadda.
What, I bought a ringtone so somehow that means I’m rude? What kind of logic is that? " :rolleyes:," indeed. And why would the people around me be any less happy with my ringtone than they would with any of the rings the phone came with?
Just wanted to chime in to say that you don’t have to PAY for ringtones. A Google search will reveal that there are plenty of sites that offer free rintone downloads, a lot of them good quality, without have to pay a per download fee or once time subscription fee. You can also find programs that will allow you to turn any song into a ringer.
I have one of them “type your own ringtone” phones (which is actually waaaay 2003 of me) and I had my buddy write the beginning of “Nothin’ But a G Thang” for me so I could program it into the phone.
I am SO proud of this, as I find it utterly giggle-able that a big white midwestern nerd girl has such sounds emitting from her pants pocket…
but i’ve come to realize that I am NEVER around anyone who would find that amusing when my phone rings. 90% of the people I know don’t even know that song by that riff
All I know is that if here that frickin’ Jamster ‘thing’ tone again, I’m tossing the person’s phone in the john (especially if it goes off during my class).
I don’t really think the issue is with you, or your tastes, or the number of ringtones you’ve purchased, exactly. MY issue, is with cellphone carriers intend to wring (ring?) every last additional cent for every possible ‘added value’ feature they can. $2 is a threshhold amount. Heck, it’s only two bucks right? For what you’re getting (which most likely won’t be moveable from one phone to the next when you turn it in because of a manufacturer defect*), it’s stupidly expensive. Expensive like Red Bull being 2 dollars for 8 oz. of water expensive.
Further, HEARING the ringtones is usually rather distracting, and often rude.
Lastly, it’s a reminder that I encounter people * every single day* who should be spending more time driving their cars than talking on their cellphones. (Like, ferinstance, while kamakazing across an intersection, beating oncoming traffic, and blazing into the parking lot of the daycare I take my kids to.
My cellphone has a rather ‘phonelike’ ringtone and is set to vibrate. Yay-rah for me. I also genreally silence is and call someone back if I’m dealing with someone else.
If your cellphone didn’t come with a loud enough ringtone you liked, why is it NOT the fault of the phone maker?
(*=Yes, I’ve had a rather bad experience with cellphones and the industry lately. Can you tell?)
