Ringtone Analysis 101

[Mike Temporale]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.forbes.com/digitalentertainment/2005/06/01/cx_de_0601ringtone.html' target='_blank'>http://www.forbes.com/digitalentertainment/2005/06/01/cx_de_0601ringtone.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Research indicates that people do judge mobile users based on their ringtone. Earlier this year, U.K.-based carrier Tesco Mobile surveyed 1,000 customers and discovered that 21% of them thought having a standard ringtone was "uncool." The survey also concluded that people who use their own recorded voice as a ringtone are self-obsessed, and that users who constantly change their rings might be flighty and unreliable."</i><br /><br />Forbes has posted a very interesting article on the status symbol that ringtones have become. They list list off a wide range of ringtones and what it says about your personality. Give it a read, and let us know what category you fall in. Apparently, I'm not nearly as funny as I think I am. 8O :lol: Cha, right!

[seaflipper]

"Research indicates that people do judge mobile users based on their ringtone. Earlier this year, U.K.-based carrier Tesco Mobile surveyed 1,000 customers and discovered that 21% of them thought having a standard ringtone was "uncool." The survey also concluded that people who use their own recorded voice as a ringtone are self-obsessed, and that users who constantly change their rings might be flighty and unreliable."

Forbes has posted a very interesting article on the status symbol that ringtones have become. They list list off a wide range of ringtones and what it says about your personality. Give it a read, and let us know what category you fall in. Apparently, I'm not nearly as funny as I think I am. 8O :lol: Cha, right!

So basically, you are either "uncool" or should be in therapy!

[Damion Chaplin]

And having your phone beep like a Star Trek communicator is considered both incredibly cool and incredibly stupid depending on who you ask...

What about those people who are cursed with a phone that has no phone ring, just silly musical rings, so we're forced to use the ringtone 'carribean'?

Mine is 'The Most Annoying Sound in the World' from that movie Dumb and Dumber.

Just kidding. :wink:

[Mike Temporale]

Mine is 'The Most Annoying Sound in the World' from that movie Dumb and Dumber.

:rotfl: Now that's funny!

[Sven Johannsen]

Only thing more annoying than irritating ringtones, is the guy in the next cube with a new phone, trying to pick a ringtone out of the 50 that come on the phone.

[Darius Wey]

Man, I've given up on ringtones. A simple "Ring Ring" has kept me satisfied for the past six months. 8)

[Mike Temporale]

Man, I've given up on ringtones. A simple "Ring Ring" has kept me satisfied for the past six months. 8)

That's what I have been using for a while now, but I think it's time for a change. I haven't found the right replacement yet. :?