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Ringtones

A ring tone is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call. The term, however, is most often used to refer to the customisable sounds available on mobile phones.

This facility was originally provided so that people would be able to determine when their phone was ringing when in the company of other mobilephone owners.

A phone only rings when a special "ringing signal" is sent to it. For regular telephones, the ringing signal is a 90-volt 20-hertz AC wave generated by the switch to which the telephone is connected. For mobile phones, the ringing signal is a specific radio-frequency signal.

MP3 Ringtones / Real Tones

Real tones are as the name suggests, real life sounds, voices and sound-alike tracks for use as a ring tone for your phone. A large number of phones now support realtones and they do sound great, so expect to see the range continue to grow with ongoing weekly updates.

Monophonic Ringtones

For those who don't have a polyphonic or realtone capable phone yet, or just find music ringtones annoying, there's still a great range of monophonic ringtones to choose from. From Rock music to Nokia FX the range is wide enough that anyone can find something they like. As with all other ringtone types these are updated.

Polyphonic Ringtone

A polyphonic ringtone is a ringtone that makes use of polyphony. Many mobile phones make use of such ringtones as options for customization by customers.

The first polyphonic ringtones used sequenced recording methods such as MIDI. Such recordings specify what instrument should play a note at a given time, but the actual instrument sound is dependent upon the playback device. Nokia introduced its first car phone, the Mobira Senator, in 1982 and the world's first hand-held NMT mobile phone, the Mobira Cityman, in 1987.