May 25, 2004

Buying a Ringtone for a Cellphone

The WSJ has an interesting article on Ringtones and compares how different providers measure up:

They tested T-Mobile, Zingy.com, ringtonejukebox.com and Motomixer, a compose-your-own option offered by Motorola and ran into snags on all of them, ranging from annoying pop-up ads, to locked browsers, to "you have to own a Nokia phone" and "not available to T-Mobile subscribers".

My favorite part is the odd ringtones they picked up on:

-- Zingy.com has one of the most impressive libraries of ringtones, with more than 3,000 options, including a faint fluttering of "pigeons taking flight" and a "squealing pig" that could wake the neighbors.

-- Ringtonejukebox.com has a large and unusual collection of ringtones that includes "evil chants" and "shooting in a panicked crowd."

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