Ringtones are like hot cakes for young people, the market is huge, worldwide sales estimated at $2.5 billion per year. The cost of a ringtone ranges from $0.99 to $2.99. The survey shows that around 26% of cell phone owners downloaded a ringtone at least once. Many download more than one, as you can customize and set the phone to play different ringtones for each caller.
For example, if mom calls, the cell phone will play a certain ringtone and another for dad and your girlfriend a different one so you don’t have to guess who’s calling, it’s totally personalized per caller.
There are four types of ringtones:
Oh monophonic ringtones play a tune one song one
note at a time, no harmonies.
Oh polyphonic the tones add harmonies to the song.
Oh real life ringtones include voices, quotation marks or others
strange and real sounds.
Oh master tones are compressed clips of actual songs, such as
heard on the radio (not just your tunes or a simple
harmonic version).
How do you download a ringtone?
There are many websites that offer a huge selection of lyrics and songs, movie themes, hip-hop, pop, dance, singers, classics and whatever.
The selection is by specific cell phone model and the process is simple, fast and easy. You select a ringtone, choose the manufacturer and model of your cell phone, see an SMS code on the screen, write it on your mobile phone and send it, then an SMS message with your ringtone is sent to you to install it on two short steps process.
However, it is estimated that the ringtone download party will cool down a bit in the next few years as more cell phones become real music MP3 players.