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Written by Kevin Cantera
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
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Word Count: 445 The Basics of Ring Tones
A ring tone is the sound made by a phone when a call comes in. The idiom, now
days, is typically used to refer to the custom sounds and music accessible on
cell phones. Customized ring tones were first intended to help people
distinguish their ringing phone from others around them, as many call signals
sounded similar in the earlier days of cell phones.
A phone rings when a certain signal is sent to it. For regular telephones, the
ring is produced by the electronic switch to which the telephone is linked. For
cell phones, the ringing signal is a specific radio-frequency. The first
commercial mobile ring tones were invented in Finland in 1998, when a mobile
operator started offering a downloadable mobile ring tone service which allowed
the general public to create simple sounds. The idea spread quickly to Europe
and Asia, and soon grew into a multi-billion dollar industry. By 2005, ring
tones generated more than $2 billion in annual worldwide revenues. Excerpts from
pop songs have become especially popular as ring tones.
Simply put, a ring tone is simply a computer program which is stored on a cell
phone's memory chip. This program works to send a message to the cell phone’s
microprocessor, telling it exactly what kind of signal to send to the phone’s
speakers when a particular call comes in. Ring tone capable phones come equipped
with a whole set of tones stored within its memory, which also include commands
for the speaker vibration frequencies that will produce particular tones. The
ring tone program simply tells the microprocessor which notes or vibrations to
play and when. By regulating the different signals, the microprocessor can play
any number of ring tones.
While older phones simply used bells for the ringer, modern ring tones have
become tremendously creative. The latest in mobile phone technology allows
people to connect various ring tones to certain phone book entries. Many
providers allow users to create ring tones from the music they already have
uploaded to their mobile phone. And a new innovation is called a “sing tone,” a
type of karaoke ring tone.
Author details:
Here the Author Kevin Cantera, who is a free lance writer in Utah, writes about the ring tones used in the cell phones. Today ring tones have changed from the bell- rings to innovative music and rhythms. Today along with creative Music, the phone gadgets give a lot like video phone using multimedia. For accessing more services in video phone, free cell phone video, video sharing community, mobile video sharing, visit www.vringo.com.
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