Remember just a few years back when ring tone is just this one melody without the ‘real tone’ that we have today? At the time ring tones started with some built in monophonic melody that you can’t customize. You pretty much have to choose from a few one that has been pre-installed by the phone company. Most of it were classical music that are under public domain. When the technology became a little better, folks were able to ‘customize’ their own ring tone melody by fiddling with the keypad. You know like playing a do-re-mi on a normal keyboard. I used to be really good at that. Making songs that made people go like “Hey, that’s so cool. I want one too!” Soon after I noticed people were putting up websites on how to make this song and that song by giving you the keypad guide.
Another so called breakthrough is when polyphonic ring tone was introduced. it’s like having a whole bunch of musical instruments playing together. For example you have the drums, bass part, the rhythm and melody all at the same time. Depending on the device that plays these tones, you will either get a very ‘real’ sound or perhaps a very ‘fake’ digital sound. Normally the files consist of a MIDI files. Of course it can’t play vocals. Only the melody part.
At this point of time, we have moved to the ‘truetone’ concept or “realtone”, “mastertone”, or “superphonic ringtone” whatever they call it. This is where you actually hear the actual music with the vocals and all. Most phones now supports many file formats like mp3, AAC, WMA even Wave formats. You can even get Free Ring tones or even download it for a fee. The possibility is endless now. You can have genres like Country Ringtones, R&B Ringtones, Jamaican Ringtones, Pop, even Rock Ringtones.
I have noticed that the latest handphones like the ones I bought for my parents for Christmas, (it’s a Sony Ericsson), even has ‘video ringtone’. Meaning I can play any video files as a ringtone whenever someone calls me. For example, if you have a boss that you don’t like, you can add a video of Sponge Bob or something whenever he calls. You can even record your own friends or family video just like what I did. Whenever I call my dad, there will be a video playing with me shouting “Oi dad! It’s me! Pick up the phone lah!” Cool eh? What’s next?
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