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JF Mezei - 27 Jan 2004 14:43 GMT

I was going to use "Ringtone ripoff" as a subject...

Why is it that phone manufacturers provide silly music that is totally
inappropriate/useless for a phone ?

My latest siemens M55 has, like the previous nokias, a whole bunch of useless
music, and only 2 actual tones (each in poly or mono phonic formats). Oh, and
it has an old telephone .wav file.

Why can't they include decent ring tones ?

Do teenage girls really go nuts over having the latest boy bad single as a
ringtone ?

Browsing the web for ringtones, it seems that people really expect phone users
to spend lots of money for a silly ringtone that is just a severely
downsampled portion of a polular song.

How come there aren't actual some real ring tones available ?

I am thinking of taping "24" tonight , hoping to pickup one of their phones ringing.

It is amazing that the manufacturers would have gone through such great
lengths to provide fancy music capabilities, yet there are no decent
telephone ring tones available, just bastardized versions of popular songs.

Am I the only one who prefers something that sounds like a phone rather than
some song ?

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bloglo globulo - 28 Jan 2004 00:48 GMT

I second that...

criss que c'est k?taine des tounes sur un t?l?phone

> I was going to use "Ringtone ripoff" as a subject...
>
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> Am I the only one who prefers something that sounds like a phone rather than
> some song ?

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alien - 28 Jan 2004 01:36 GMT

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:43:58 -0500, JF Mezei says...

> Do teenage girls really go nuts over having the latest boy bad single as a
> ringtone ?
>
> Browsing the web for ringtones, it seems that people really expect phone users
> to spend lots of money for a silly ringtone that is just a severely
> downsampled portion of a polular song.

Actually they are quite popular in Europe, and young people
really *do* spend a lot of time and money buying and
programming ringtones, changing them every two days etc.
(Not to mention the phones itself).
And since EU rappresents the biggest market for the
manufacturers it does make sense because that's what most of
the customers want. You should see how many ringtone commercials
are there on german TV networks...

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JF Mezei - 28 Jan 2004 03:13 GMT

> Actually they are quite popular in Europe, and young people
> really *do* spend a lot of time and money buying and
> programming ringtones, changing them every two days etc.

That is because they get a ringtone whose title sound good, but when start to
use it as a ringtone instead of a mp3, they realise hos pitiful it is to have
the phone utter those sounds instead of ringing. So they try another one.

Yes, good business, but it is still a ripoff.

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