The history of the ring tone

It started with the Nokia tune, which is a 13 point rendering of Francisco Tarrega, Gran Vals, a 19th-century Spanish musician was.

The first ringing tones were monophonic, which means that only one note is played at a time.

Some of the early models of the mobile phone, had a built in ring Tone composer. To compose free ringtones directly on the phone or to create them with a ring Tone composer, never became a big hit.The year 2002 is an important milestone in the history of the ring tone. Nokia 3510 was the first phone that is optimized for playback of polyphonic ringing tones. Soon in other cell phone companies also assumed that the MIDI standard which allows more realistic for ringtones polyphonic sounds.

The year 2003 was the real breakthrough for polyphonic ringing tone sounds. mobile phone makers, operators and content providers also came up with new concepts and ring Show formats.Motorola and Nokia Nokia Groovetunes introduced True Tones.ring Tone sites also started to offer voice with votes of celebrities like ringtones ring tones.

Today, with phones like the Sony Ericsson W800, Nokia N91 and Motorola iTunes phone, we may be faced with a new milestone in the history of the ring tone. polyphonic ringing tones still rock, but as you can see above, brief history, things change. Today the Internet is full of MP3 music, both legal and illegal, and Bluetooth, you can transfer music files from a PC to your mobile phone.

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