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Phonezoo: Unleash Your Animal Ringtones
Phonezoo claims to be the “Most rocking, fun, easy & FREE Top-10 US Mobile entertainment site.” The site allows users to personalize their phones with custom tones uploaded by different users. Although the membership is free there are some ringtones which can also be purchased since they are not uploaded by online users but by third party vendors. -
Malaco and m-Wise Bring Pay-Per-Download Ringtones
The mobile content market continues to move forward, with users seeking more and more content to personalize and customize their mobile phone experience. Even as technology makes access to mobile content easier and more affordable, companies are working almost round the clock to come up with fresh ideas and approaches – and, of course, fresh content – for their avid followers to take and make use of on their own mobile phones. New websites, new artists, new styles and new deals between mobile carriers and service providers and record labels keep producing new ringtones and new mobile music content, all in the name of maximizing the opportunity to cater to demand. -
Excelsior! Vringo: Next Big Thing
The mobile media market continues to enter new phases of development, even as analysts such as SNL Kagan suggest that sales have reached their peak and are starting to decline. Reinvention and innovation are the current name of the game, and companies are scrambling to find new and better ways to capitalize on users’ desire for personalization and customization. Tying up with the music industry from day one to produce ringtones and ringback tones of varying lengths and origins has been a beneficial move, and continues to be even as companies develop more user-friendly ways to make these available. -
Cutting Tune, Cutting Edge
The mobile media market has reached its peak, analysts say, and while it’s not hard to see why – the cell phone has transcended its former image as a business item and cultivated a new one as a cultural and social extension of one’s personality – it’s important to consider various avenues that keep the experience fresh and unique. Customizing and tailor-making features, wallpaper, apps and ringtones to suit one’s personality continues to be a big part of the cell phone experience, but matters like price and convenience are starting to make their presence felt as factors affecting sales and user loyalty. -
Apple’s iTunes 9: Now with Ringtones
Mobiles and music go hand in hand. At least that’s what many mobile media providers have been banking on for the last decade or so, ever since the cell phone exploded onto the mass market and went straight into its meteoric rise, transcending its “business-class necessity” status and going straight for the title of “trendy gadget that everyone should have.” Along with customization options that allow users to tailor-make their cell phone’s visual and physical features, such as plastic housing panels and themed wallpaper, the personalization afforded by musical cues for cell ringing – ringtones, in short – have brought music and mobiles together in a match made in marketing heaven. -
Reasons to Make Yours Tonemine
While some reports suggest that the mobile media market has reached its peak and is starting to level off and even spiral, such a situation is more a symptom of a new phase than an indication of the end. Mobile media has consistently been a solid and profitable commodity, even as newer and newer phone models hit the market and revolutionize the landscape anew by allowing for new offerings and new formats for mobile media such as ringtones and wallpaper. User desires for personalization and customization are catered to in different ways by providers who have developed aggressive marketing campaigns and user-friendly interfaces to best deliver the mobile content to the mobile generation. -
DadaMobile and the Ringtone Revolution
The provision of mobile content has long been proven to be a viable business, ever since the former absolute-necessity-only cell phone metamorphosed into a popular, good-for-everyone personal item that served as much for self-expression and individuality as for practicality and sensible use. Customizable wallpaper, applications, widgets, and ringtones top the lists of content that provide cell phone users with various means to tweak and personalize their ever-evolving mobile phone units, and the options increase almost by the day, with each new iteration of the mobile phone expanding and improving its features and allowing for more and more unique touches to be installed. -
Thumbs Up for Thumbplay
Strong businesses are built on the banks of freely-flowing market forces, and one must harness and damn the market up reasonably well so as to make the most of the opportunity. Wisely, mobile content providers have taken advantage of the continually strong pop music market and that of mobile media as well – cell phones have undergone a swift and continuous transformation from business tool to personal item over the last few years – and the combination of markets both music and mobile has been a match made in heaven. -
Jamba Pumps up the Jamster
Mobile media is said to have hit its peak, and is allegedly simply coasting as a commodity. Indeed, if taking the recent market trends into account this is one of the clear possibilities. Ringtones, apps and wallpaper, while once kings of the mobile content arena for providing infinite customization potential for cell phones, have begun to wane in selling power as users craft their own files for use. However, services like Thumbplay and Glu Mobile have continued to enjoy support and even growth, as has a nine-year-old veteran player in the biz, Jamba – known to United States-based users as Jamster. -
Pittsburgh Getting “Locally Tuned”
Ringtones have long been a staple of mobile media, with transitions from monotone to polytone to true tone creating quite a stir in how consumers can individualize their phones and content. Whether using midi-type sequences of tones or full-quality audio clips of songs, ringtones have formed a notable segment of mobile content commerce. Music trade publication Billboard even tracks US ringtone choices on a chart much in the same way as it follows hit songs. This year, however, ringtones are becoming a local fixture more than ever – in Pittsburgh. -
Verizon Wireless Will Pay $1.5M to Settle ‘Free’ Ringtones Issue
TALLAHASSEE, FL - Attorney General Bill McCollum announced his office has reached an agreement which resulted to a million dollar refund in the Florida area. Verizon and Alltel consumers will be given the settlement account of $1.5 million dollars to refund third-party charges on their phone bills. The Telco has also agreed to assume a series of "best practices" standards to help protect the consumers from third-party charges, including hidden charges for "free" ringtones. What happens is that cellular phone customers either didn't order these ringtones or didn't realize that there would be a monthly charge after the free trail period of the ringtones. -
Making the Most Out of your Ringtone Budget
Ring tones have been as popular for almost as long as the cell phones they are used on. Catering primarily to the user base’s individual tastes and styles, these sound clips have become favorite attachments for almost every mobile use – incoming voice calls, incoming text and multimedia messages, and even as ring back tones [...] -
Ringtone Downloads are the Latest Craze among the Youth
Technology has led our generation in an era full of options. Technology has touched the lives of both the old and the young. It is the youth who are more adept with the technology of today. The fast-paced update of technology also has left some of us behind. Every minute that passes by people are trying to invent new things for our latest needs. There are new updates and innovations with just a blink of an eye! -
The Ringtones of Tomorrow
Ringing tones have been part of telephone systems since the early days of telephone communication – hearkening back, perhaps, to the days of Morse code and the dash and dit sounds produced by those pioneering machines. Traditionally, ringing tones used to be limited to the actual ringing sounds incorporated into rotary and touch-tone telephones to [...] -
The Evolution of Ringtones
Through the years, we have watched mobile phones advance both in design and function. The continuous growth of the mobile phone industry gave birth to various technologies and brought about the advancement of multimedia products such as operator logos, wallpapers, MMS, and ringtones as an answer to the growing needs of the consumers. By definition, [...] -
An In-depth Look At Ring Tones
It is the sound or musical jingle that comes out of your phone when somebody calls you. A person’s choice of ring tone speaks a lot of the person’s personality as well as taste in music and phone type. For instances, there are cell phone models that can only play the same ring tone regardless [...]