July 18, 2005
Make your child's voice your cell-phone ring tone
When was the last time you heard a child's voice saying ``Daddy, it's me. Pick up the phone,'' as a ring tone?
Xingtone is making it easy to create your own ring tone -- anything from something you've recorded into a microphone to your favorite 20-second clip of a tune in your personal MP3 collection.
Xingtone software -- available for both the Mac and the PC -- allows users to tap into their personal music collection, isolate the section of the song they want as the ring tone, preview it and send it to the phone.
The phone receives a text message with a link to the ring tone file and downloads it into the phone itself. Yes, that means the user needs a phone that is capable of connecting to the Internet -- which most of today's phones are equipped to do."
For now, the software is sold in retail stores or as a download from www .xingtone.com with individual licenses.
[via Mercury News]
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