Music and mobiles have always mixed. This has been true ever since the current generation of mobile phones first appeared on the scene, with ringtones that transcended mere bell-based sound effects and beginning to approximate song melodies with their MIDI-style beeping. Of course, while popular for its time this was quickly deemed passé and made to evolve at roughly the same rate as the mobile phones themselves. This resulted in polytones, which overlaid multiple MIDI-style arrangements to produce a closer approximation of the original melody. Ringtones called “true tones” or “real tones” followed suit shortly, as phones had by that point evolved to the level of playing actual sound clips, usually in MP3 format.
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