Tag: ringtones
Tech Digest daily roundup: Ringtones preserve of old and middle-aged
Tech Trumpet: Nokia Classic Ring Tone Mix
Welcome to Tech Trumpet, where I attempt to make vaguely musical sounds using a variety of gadgets and computers.
Following today’s announcement of Nokia’s latest Classic handsets, I thought I’d put together a little ditty made up of classic Nokia ring tones…
Popularity of buying digital goods via mobile phone set to soar
New research suggests that, globally, two billion mobile users will have bought digital goods using their phones by the year 2013.
“Digital goods” means anything that can be delivered directly to the phone over the cellular network or Internet, including ringtones, music, videos, electronic tickets, TV programmes, and games…
Mobile phone industry regulator sniffs suspiciously at premium-rate downloads, plans to probe
UK premium-rate mobile phone services, offering ringtones, downloads and games, are going to have to watch their backs. Industry regulator, PhonepayPlus (which sounds very much a premium-rate mobile service itself if you ask me), has said that it will be closely examining the practices of these service providers following a surge in complaints from consumers…
Crappy ringtone and wallpaper downloads are on their way out, texting to follow?
Orange is reporting a steady decline in demand for downloadable ringtones and wallpapers. It believes that powerful multimedia technologies in modern mobile phones mean users prefer full length track downloads and taking their own pictures with phone cameras…
Tech Digest says no on the Little Britain mobile game
An official Little Britain mobile game? Champagne! Champagne for everyone, as Bubbles would say.
Glu Mobile will be developing the game for handsets, which will consist of four mini-games, using the voices of Matt Lucas, David Walliams and Tom Baker for all the characters from the show. It’ll come bundled…
Apple may launch official iPhone ringtones via iTunes on Wednesday
Even before the iPhone launched, we’ve been expecting there to be some way of purchasing and uploading ringtones to the iPhone via iTunes. Now several prominent US newspapers are reporting that Steve Jobs could use his special event on Wednesday (the star of the show rumoured to be new touchscreen, Intel-based iPods) to launch an iPhone ringtone service.
As the Crazy Frog will tell/irritatingly shout at you, there’s money to be made from ringtones, particularly as Apple may wish to cash in on the iPhone’s ability to assign individual tones to each contact.
Create your own iPhone ringtones… if you have time on your hands
Some intrepid hackers have figured out how to put your own custom ringtones on the iPhone – it’s famously one of the missing features from Apple’s handset, despite being one of the more obvious things you’d want in a music phone.
Beat Crazy Frog at his own game!
No, not by releasing a rubbish Hi-NRG cover of an old soft-rock tune while doing your best washing-machine impression over the top. Really. Instead, a new service called Fonepark lets you set up your own Jamster wannabe, selling ringtones, wallpapers…
Revealed: the ringtones that ruin romance
We've already seen that the British are worried by their own ringtones, and now, two days before Valentine's Day, research from the ringtone retailer MAX BOX reveals which mobile ringtones are the most unappealing to the opposite sex. Women said…
