iPhone customization includes finding the right tone or alert to make your device stand out above the rest. And now thanks to Sony Creative Software, you have a large number of ringtones to choose from. With the release of the 1,000 Ringtones DVD, personalize your email alerts, incoming calls and text messages according to your liking. Over 1,000 ringtone files in .m4r format are grouped in three categories which should make it easier for iPhone users to pick the tone of their choice.

The 1,000 Ringtones DVD from Sony Creative Software is now available for purchase or online for only $19.95.

(Source) Press

Tags: Apple, Cell Phones, creative software, customization, email, incoming calls, iPhone, iPhone, ringtone files, ringtones, Sony, text messages

Sprint has announced the availability of 28 new bird call ringtones in association with the National Audobon Society. Among the new bird call ringtones include the Field Sparrow, Red-belled Woodpecker and the Black-capped Chickadee and are compatible with all Sprint handsets that include the recently released Samsung Reclaim.

The ringtones can be downloaded by texting BIRD to 1111 or by going directly to the Sprint website. Standard text rates will be applied when downloading these ringtones. These new ringtones aim to raise the awareness of Audobon’s directive to protect and conserve birds and their natural habitat.

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For sure, a lot of us have had our share of modifying our ringtones or message tones. Now, you can do the same for your incoming mail as MailTones for the iPhone has officially arrived. Electric Pockets has announced the release of the new app which is now available over at the iTunes app store for $2.99. With the MailTones app, personalize your email alert tone for each friend located in your address book which should help you determine if the incoming email is important or just another forwarded or spam email.

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Tags: address book, alert tone, Apple, Cell Phones, incoming email, incoming mail, iPhone, iPhone, iTunes, message tones, Mobile Software, pockets, ringtones

It is no secret that ever since Michael Jackson passed away last week, millions of fans have been trooping stores buying his albums which contains hit songs like Billie Jean and Thriller. This includes online stores which have ran out of supplies of the famed King of Pop.

Now, people are turning their attention to the Sprint Music Store, purchasing and downloading the famous tunes of the late Michael Jackson. Sprint is the best alternative for music seekers looking for Jackson’s hits and it has shown from the past days.

The week before his death, Jackson ranked 80th in Sprint Music Store sales. Since he died, he’s catapulted to No. 1. The most popular downloaded tracks are “Billie Jean” and “Thriller,” both from the 1982 blockbuster album “Thriller.” In addition, Jackson ringtones constituted 28 percent of total sales on Friday. Top three ringtones are “Thriller,” “P.Y.T.” and “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.”

Sprint Music Store and Sprint Radio are available through affordable Everything Data plans, starting at just $69.99 per month. With a Simply Everything plan, customers can get unlimited data, talk and messaging for $99.99, which offers individual customers a savings of $1,200 over the course of two years vs. a comparable AT&T iPhone plan.

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One thing that most mobile phone owners want is to make their phone unique. This can be done by either the outer covering or the contents of their device. Ringtones are certainly included in this mix and while some would download them from popular ringtone sites, there are some who would rather do it themselves.

To do that, they would need a special kind of software. Thus for the Palm Pre, a new software is likewise unveiled to create custom ringtones to their device.

Users can create ringtones from songs purchased from online stores that include Amazon MP3 and the iTunes Music Store with direct drag and drop functionality. Ringtone Expressions give Pre users the flexibility of sending ringtones to their Pre directly over USB or wirelessly via SMS.

Ringtone Expressions is now available at their website and has an introductory subscription price of $1.99 per month once the trial period of one month lapses.

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Brinked describes itself as an Online Ringtone Community, it is a provider of free ringtones for most US based cell phone carriers. The ringtones are available in mp3, wav & m4r formats, which means that the tones are compatible with most mobile devices includinge the iPhone.

The home page provides a quick listing of currently featured ringtones, What’s Hot, Most Dowloaded, Most Recent.  This is a great way to see what is available in the library and get some ideas of what others are downloading.

If the suggestions there aren’t what you are looking for you can browse by Genre as well. Pretty much all genres are covered from Techno to Rock, Rap to TV & Movies and more. If the genres don’t offer what you are looking for the site also has a good search engine for you to use, simply enter the song you are looking for or the artist you want and it will return the appropriate list.

Where this site handles things a little differently is that it also has a RingTone generator. This allows you to select any mp3, wav or OGG file from your computer upload it and have it formatted as a ringtone.  Creating them as specific ringtones for your phone is a good option. The only downside I see to this is that there is no support for wma files (the native format for music files ripped from CD’s by Window’s Media Player). While this is a bit of a problem, all it really does is add an additional conversion step, there are free and cheap conversion sites and software that will take your wma files and convert them to any of the formats accepted by Brinked - it might be nice if they provided one of these on their site.

To download a ringtone it is necessary to setup an account, however, this is free and they only ask for the most minimal amount of information, which I thought was very good. To get the ringtone you have to provide your phones email address and the ringtone is emailed to you, you then download the attachment and use it as a ringtone. I have used ringtone download sites before and they usually download direct to your phone or are sent as SMS/MMS messages which makes them easier to handle.

Having found music and registered and downloaded the ringtone, Brinked goes one step further by providing users with a Forum.  For the most part the Forum doesn’t seem to have generated a lot of use so far, which I personally think is a shame and a missed opportunity. If the forum were promoted more on the home page I think they would get more from it.

The Forum is broken into two main categories - Help and Discussions with a third giving forum stats.  I like the idea of the help being in the forum area as this does start to provide the users with a sense of the community that is used as the website description. The downside of this is that most of the “help” seems to come from other users and there seems to be none from the website owners, which should be addressed.

Overall, if you are looking for a ringtone, don’t mind having to go through a few hoops to get them and want them for free then this is a pretty good site for achieving that.

Tags: Business, free ringtones, ringtones, US Carriers

Starting today, ZTE’s C78 and C79 Tri-Band phones will be made available through Pocket Communications to subscribers in its New England and Texas markets. In addition to the C88, this will be the second and third handsets ZTE has launched with Pocket Communications in 2009.

Both stylish and affordable options, the ZTE C78 and C79 are full-featured handsets that operate on AWS and PCS frequency bands and provide over 60MB of user memory for users who want to download games, ringtones and applications. The suite of features also includes Bluetooth capabilities and picture messaging.

The ZTE C78 features a sleek design with a 2-inch backlit color display in a black and silver candy bar casing. The ZTE C79 is a clamshell phone equipped with a 1.3 Megapixel camera and an MP3 player with external music keys, a unique feature allowing users to listen to music and manage their playlists with ease.

As with all its products, ZTE both designs and manufactures its handsets in-house. ZTE USA offers a full portfolio of end-to-end wireless handset and networking solutions in the U.S.

The company’s handsets have won numerous design awards, and its flexible product design and manufacturing cycle enables ZTE USA to quickly deliver affordable products to customers.

(Source) BusinessWire

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Apple has a new patent for us folks. The Cupertino-based company has been thinking about a system that would automatically adjust the volume of your iPhone or Mac depending on the ambient noise.

You will be able to control the parameters of that volume control and the application will suggest the use of headphones if the current ambiance is too loud for you. We’re not sure when and if this technology will be included but it would certainly be cool to have the volume of your music and your ringtones adjusted depending on your surroundings. What do you think?

via Patent Office

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CellFreak has been relaunched internationally thanks to the Logia Group. The provider of mobile internet services now offers more features on the website, that will surely please many cellphone owners.

With that being said, CellFreak has an exclusive SMS service which is free and works worldwide, due to the agreement with 700 carriers located in 212 countries. Basically sending a SMS from a computer to a mobile phone is free for everyone. Additionally, the website has a new section entitled “Create Your Own WAP Site” which makes it easy to create and host a WAP page that can be shared with other people, think of invitations and greeting cards as the content.

Also offered on TheCellFreak is a cell phone news blog, a gossip blog, and user generated ringtones, wallpapers, and video.

CellFreak

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Verizon Wireless has revealed its list of top-selling ringtones, ringback tones, and full-length tracks on its premier V CAST service for 2007 at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Topping out on ringtones and V CAST is “A Bay Bay” by Hurricane Chris. Other names worth mentioning are Fergie, Soulja Boy, and Timbaland.

Here is the complete list.

Ringtones
“A Bay Bay,” by Hurricane Chris

“Beautiful Girls (Main Chorus),” by Sean Kingston

“Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’),” by T-Pain

“Crank That (Soulja Boy),” by Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em

“Glamorous,” by Fergie

“Party Like A Rock Star,” by Shop Boyz

“Rockstar,” by Nickelback

“Stronger,” by Kanye West

“The Way I Live,” by Baby Boy Da Prince

“This Is Why I’m Hot (Chorus),” by MIMS

Ringback Tones
“Apologize,” by Timbaland

“Beautiful Girls (Main Chorus),” by Sean Kingston

“Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal),” by Fergie

“Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’),” by T-Pain

“Crank That (Soulja Boy),” by Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em

“Glamorous,” by Fergie

“No One,” by Alicia Keys

“Party Like A Rock Star,” by Shop Boyz

“Rockstar,” by Nickelback

“This Is Why I’m Hot (Chorus),” by MIMS

V CAST Music — Full-track Songs
“A Bay Bay,” by Hurricane Chris

“Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal),” by Fergie

“Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’),” by T-Pain featuring Yung Joc

“Crank That (Soulja Boy),” by Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em

“Cyclone,” by Baby Bash

“Hey There Delilah,” by Plain White T’s

“Kiss Kiss,” by Chris Brown

“No One,” by Alicia Keys

“Party Like A Rock Star,” by Shop Boyz

“Umbrella,” by Rihanna

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Tags: Auto, ringback tones, ringtones, v cast, Verizon

Firefly Mobile’s new children’s mobile phone, the Firefly glowPhone R100, got the approval from the FCC. Targeted at kids, the mobile phone has been designed with the specific intention of making calls alone and texting, and pretty much nothing else. So much that it does not even include Bluetooth but instead provides a good old headset port where you can plug in the accessory. It does, however, have a apeakerphone. For the kids, it has got handy shortcut keys called the Mom Call key and Dad Call key where the parents can set a pre-programmed number for quick dialing.

There are a few games available on the phone. It features the ability to change ringtones or wallpapers. In the Flashlight mode, the phone turns on all of the glowPhone lights. There’s also text messaging support.

No word on the pricing or availability yet.

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