My ringtone

daniel luke, on November 10th, 2004 at 3:49 pm Said:

Very good idea, Dave. I have wondered the exact same thing for many years. If I could choose a ring tone, it would be this: “The number you have reached is no longer working. If you would like to make a call, please hang up, and try your number again.” But I also really like “pick up the damn phone, fool!”.

Anonymous, on November 10th, 2004 at 4:21 pm Said:

I just got a new cell phone too! It’s a Nokia something-or-other. I don’t know the model number, and don’t care. When my old Nokia (which I loved, but which everyone teased me about because it was (a) analog and (2) “big”) finally gave up the ghost a couple of weeks ago, I called my carrier and said, “Look here, I’ve been a customer for almost ten years, I think I deserve a new phone.” They agreed.
It arrived via courier ten days later, and after jumping through hoops to install a fingernail sized card, then charging, turning on and off a succession of times, I thought I was finally ready to place and receive calls — which is all I ask my cell phone to do. I don’t want to browse the Web on my phone. I don’t want to send email. I don’t want to “text”, whatever that means, and I sure as hell don’t want to take pictures with it.
I tried to place a call. Couldn’t find the SEND button. (No, I’m not a moron; it’s not labelled.) Had to look it up in the manual. Then I tried to call it from my home phone and the ring tone almost made me jump out of my skin. What the *hell* was that? Why can’t it sound LIKE A PHONE RINGING?
It rang for three minutes while I looked in the manual to find which button to press to answer the call. On my old phone, you could press any button to answer the call.
Why can’t technology get simpler, rather than more difficult?

scott d. feldstein, on November 10th, 2004 at 5:15 pm Said:

I’m wondering why nobody has made a ringtone of the original star trek communicator sound. WTF are these people thinking? They’d make a mint. I’d buy it in a heartbeat.

Larry, on November 11th, 2004 at 9:19 pm Said:

I have an LG VX3200 and it supports this. The UI for this it isn’t as good as it could be, because it’s under the voice memo function, rather than where you select other ringtones.

Jeremy King, on November 21st, 2004 at 1:27 am Said:

To Scott:

To heck with just having a ringtone…I’ve been trying to figure out why Sharper Image or Brookstone or one of those other vendors of needless gear haven’t had a whole phone modelled after the original ST communicators…

Tyler Weaver, on September 11th, 2005 at 9:57 pm Said:

I would think that they do not have this feature so they can sell more ringtones…

Beltonen G., on October 8th, 2005 at 7:46 am Said:

Hi, anyone experience with the new t627?
Greetz G.

Freddy B, on September 23rd, 2006 at 1:47 am Said:

There is another way to have your make your own ringtones (instead of recording them right on the phone). A couple of sites now enable you to create your own ringtones, for example:

http://www.phonesherpa.com/

You can take any mp3, wma, or wav files on your computer and use Phone Sherpa’s ringtone maker to convert your music into custom ringtones. They also have an easy to use wallpaper editor.

Tim the Brit, on May 25th, 2007 at 12:18 pm Said:

Liking Phone Sherpa a lot, thanks for the tip, but how come they dont let u make ur own video clips for ur phone?