Ringtone history - It started with the Nokia Tune, which is a 13 note rendering of Francisco Tarrega's, Gran Vals, who was a 19th-century Spanish...

It started with the Nokia Tune, which is a 13 note rendering of Francisco Tarrega's, Gran Vals, who was a 19th-century Spanish musician.

The first ring tones were monophonic, which mean that only one note is played at a time.

Some of the early cell phone models, had a built in ring tone composer. To compose free ring tones directly to the phone or to make them with a ring tone composer, never became a big hit. The year 2002 is a major milestone in ring tone history. Nokia 3510 was the first phone optimized for playing polyphonic ring tones. Soon other cell phone companies also adopted the MIDI standard that enables more realistic polyphonic sounds for ring tones. The year 2003 was the actual breakthrough for polyphonic ring tones. Cell phone makers, operators and content providers also came up with new concepts and ring tone formats. Motorola introduced Groovetunes and Nokia introduced Nokia True Tones. Ring tone web sites also started to offer voice ring tones with voices of celebrities as ring tones.

Today, with phones like The Sony Ericsson W800, Nokia N91 and Motorolas iTunes phone, we could be facing a new milestone in the ring tone history.

Polyphonic ring tones still rock, but as you can see from the short history presented above, things change. Today the internet is full of MP3 music, both legal and illegal, and you can use Bluetooth to transfer music files from a PC to your cell phone.

By Nicolas Fogelholm

Published: 3/24/2006 

Today, the there is a ringing mobile everywhere you go. It might be any public place, office, roadsides different mobile phone ringtones shall draw your attention. It might come to your mind as from where the idea of ringtone arrived?

This interesting technology started in the year 2001 when the first ringtone was sold in Finland. The teenagers of Finland were in the SMS (Short messaging service) mobile technology at that time and every teenager had a mobile phone and was seen typing short text messages and sending them back and forth. The Finns then tried to escalate their mobile phone services after building the success of SMS. The ringtone business was evolved by Vesa Matti Paananen and now it has reached a position where mobile customers are free to download customized ringtones by paying a small fee.

During the same time, cellular services providers in America started positioning for market share. Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone provider found that to know what people want needs to watch them, observe what they are doing and then from that arrive at what do they actually want?

At this time, the mobile phone industry reached to about 20 percent of the college students and teenagers market and that was to be improved. And they found that teenagers especially girls loved to talk at mobile phones. It was also observed that these girls used to be very fashion conscious and therefore they wanted to have customized, sleek and small mobile phones and this was successfully done by Nokia. Later, some of the other mobile phone companies targeted these girls who used to hang out with their friends and provided theme based ringtones such as" Girls just wanna have fun". At this time, Japan, a competitor in the electronics market also entered the race and in the year 2003 The Japanese Copyright Organization collected a very huge amount of royalties on mobile phone ringtones.

Later, Motorola and MTV started together developing a wireless menu interface for mobile phones whereby there are direct links to embedded or over the air downloadable MTV and Motorola content and experiences. These included wallpapers, screensavers and other cool ringtones which are original recordings of the music artists. There are other technologies evolved by mobile phone providers that enable mobile and online mixing capabilities to create unique ringtones.

The recent statistics and research shows that consumers have jumped upon this technology thereby pushed the industry in the last four years from nothing to $11 billion by the year 2005 worldwide. People are taking advantages of various mobile phone options available in the market.

Innovation produces creativity and mobile ringtones is the best example for this. Ringtones are now available in all forms of music based on different themes, culture and mood of the consumer.

Ringtones have come a long way and the technology is still advancing providing some interesting and useful applications.

For more information, visit our recommended website t-mobile-ringtone.info

Olivia Andrews, writer of t-mobile-ringtone.info is a freelance journalist and has written many reviews on subjects such as finance, education, health, entertainment, music, gifts, crafts, travel, apparels and mobile phones.

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