[Tenchiro]

So I got a new phone the other day and activated the internet service since it is free for a couple of months. I decided to check out ringtones and wallpaper through Sprint, I figured there might be some free stuff out there. I was just going to buy a data cable and do it myself, but figured I would save the $20.

Each and every download they had available was like $2 or 2.50 + tax and just to add insut to injury, they delete themselves after 90 days! Not only that but I did a search for "free" and even the "free" ones, were still like $2...

It is funny how you pay a premium for a service, but they still nickel and dime you for every thing they can.

 

[TreeSaw]

Yupper! I did the same a few weeks ago when I got a new phone and decided to deal with the crappy stock ones for now.

 

[splat]

Yeah , they say teh Music industry is going to make $ 2 Billion this year from ringtones Alone.. yeah the interent is really hurting the Music industry

 

[-dustin]

sprint's a little bitch like that. good thing i keep my phone on vibrate.

i wish i could create my own ring tones.

 

[Polandspring88]

sprint's a little bitch like that. good thing i keep my phone on vibrate.

i wish i could create my own ring tones.

Ditto on the vibrate. I hate sitting there and having someone's phone blare out a ****ty rendition of mozart or something like that.

 

[Tenchiro]

Yeah, Mine is staying on vibrate and silent for now. I get a Cingular discount at my new job so hopefully I can ditch Qwest once and for all.

Although with the recent NSA debacle I am not sure that I want to.

 

[Brian HCM#1]

I can down load mine from some vendors on Verizon, plus they have the real some versions. My ring tones are............. Iron Maiden -The Trooper, Alice in Chains - Them Bones, Pantera - Cemetery Gates and Mudvayne - Forget to remember

 

[JRB]

As annoying as I must be here, I keep my phone on vibrate most times. I do turn the ringer on when I ride, so Julie can find me if there's a problem with Caroline. Do us all a favor and forego ring tones.

 

[ito]

It is funny how you pay a premium for a service, but they still nickel and dime you for every thing they can.

As the others said, vibrate. I never have understood the need to proclaim one's presence and crappy taste in music by putting the cell phone on the loudest setting possible at all times. I will admit that at least the playing quality of the music is tolerable now.

Vibrate is where it is at though. It is free and it feels good

The Ito

 

[binary visions]

...and yet, people pay. All the time. Because God Forbid their phone not have the latest lame-ass Nelly lyric spew from the tinny, distorted speaker every time someone wants to buy a gram of coke.

 

[SkaredShtles]

Do people really care how their phones sound when they ring?

 

[JRB]

...and yet, people pay. All the time. Because God Forbid their phone not have the latest lame-ass Nelly lyric spew from the tinny, distorted speaker every time someone wants to buy a gram of coke.

Great generalization.

I do hate them all though.

 

[MtnBikerChk]

I can (and have) create my own and basically email them to my phone.

My current ring tone is "Peanut butter jelly time" lol

Yes, the ones to purchase are a total scam.

 

[JRB]

Do people really care how their phones sound when they ring?

For some reason, yes. I have no idea why. I don't even know how to get ring tones though.

*I will add that I just learned that there is a Washington Nationals baseball team the day before yesterday though, so I am not really up on new things.

 

[I Are Baboon]

I use two ring options: Vibrate, and the loudest goddamn ring for those times I'm in the car and have the radio blasting.

 

[JRB]

I use two ring options: Vibrate, and the loudest goddamn ring for those times I'm in the car and have the radio blasting.

I still don't hear it. I used to have a megaphone of a ring when I farmed and I still wouldn't hear it ring in my shirt pocket. That is why I use vibrate.

 

[oly]

How can something you pay for delete itself after 90 days? That just seems wrong....

I have a cool deftones ring i use for an alarm, but its not loud enough for a ring tone.... so I picked the most obnoxious one thats stock onthe phone...

 

[Tenchiro]

How can something you pay for delete itself after 90 days? That just seems wrong....

It sucks but since people buy into it and it is most likely pure profit for them, they get away with it.

 

[Brian HCM#1]

For some reason, yes. I have no idea why. I don't even know how to get ring tones though.

*I will add that I just learned that there is a Washington Nationals baseball team the day before yesterday though, so I am not really up on new things.

Did you get running water yet?

 

[BurlyShirley]

I find the annoyance of you peoples' bitching around here to be far worse than that of ringtones.

I have sprint and get a free download each month...

 

[jimmydean]

My wife bought me my first phone over the weekend. She was online last night looking at lame ass ring tones for it. I told her, "you know what would be great? If it sounded like a phone ringing when someone calls!"

She failed to see the humor/sense in the concept. I keep it on vibrate.

 

[JRB]

I find the annoyance of you peoples' bitching around here to be far worse than that of ringtones.

I have sprint and get a free download each month...

May as well have a trendy phone to go with that bad boy tat.

 

[narlus]

like anything else, if you look hard enough you can usually find 'em for free.

 

[reflux]

I can (and have) create my own and basically email them to my phone.

My current ring tone is "Peanut butter jelly time" lol

Yes, the ones to purchase are a total scam.

I swear, one of these days I will become tech savvy enough to email my ringtone to my phone. As of right now though, I'll have to settle for the "record" feature and associated distortion.

 

[Konabumm]

So I got a new phone the other day and activated the internet service since it is free for a couple of months. I decided to check out ringtones and wallpaper through Sprint, I figured there might be some free stuff out there. I was just going to buy a data cable and do it myself, but figured I would save the $20.

Each and every download they had available was like $2 or 2.50 + tax and just to add insut to injury, they delete themselves after 90 days! Not only that but I did a search for "free" and even the "free" ones, were still like $2...

It is funny how you pay a premium for a service, but they still nickel and dime you for every thing they can.

I make my own, one of the many nice things about having a Treo

 

[narlus]

I swear, one of these days I will become tech savvy enough to email my ringtone to my phone. As of right now though, I'll have to settle for the "record" feature and associated distortion.

you need a phone which can support this. there's a free service to do this, but my phone didn't work w/ it.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

"Your phone is ringing!!!!"

"What!?!?! I can't hear you, my phone is ringing!!!!!"

 

[Tenchiro]

I make my own, one of the many nice things about having a Treo

Yeha I am going to cancel the data service, spring for the data cable and brew my own stuff.

 

[Transcend]

Rogers in Canada gives away a new tone every month. My phone sounds like a telephone. You know, it rings like a bell and stuff, imagine that!

 

[xy9ine]

Rogers in Canada gives away a new tone every month. My phone sounds like a telephone. You know, it rings like a bell and stuff, imagine that!

i love the tone that sounds like a mechanical ringer in an old-school rotary phone (assuming thats the one you have) - some decent polyphonic cells pull it off pretty convincingly.

 

[narlus]

someone left their phone in the crapper stall yesterday, and the ringtone was 'blah blah blah blah'. it was pretty funny.

 

[Atomic Dog]

For my wife's phone I just went to wal-mart's website and downloaded a couple of their 30 second preview clips of songs that she likes. They I just push them to the phone via bluetooth.

Couldn't find much on there that I wanted as a tone, so I just put my own mp3s on my phone.

Vibrate is good at work or in public, but if I'm in my car and the radio's up I like to have something I can hear pretty easily. (Although once in a while at work I forget to set the phone to silent and my phone will start playing Jurassic 5's "What's Golden" for the whole building to hear. )

 

[Cooter Brown]

my ringtone is "Good 'ol Boys" by Waylon Jennings, can't really hear it on the shop floor, but it's funny when it goes off in meetings and everyone stops and laughs

 

[JRB]

Makin' their way, the only way they know how. That's just a little bit more than the law will allow.

I put some thought into it, and this is not the biggest online scam ever though.