Motorola Ringtones

I have a Motorola phone and I need a ringtone. Does this differ versus if I have a Samsung cell phone, a Kyocera phone, or an LG phone. It used to, but these days, you can get ringtones from most merchants regardless of your phone.

The cell phone you have has a lot to do with ringtones if you are entering them manually. Some cell phone manufacturers offer the ability to manually type in tones. However, the quality of these ringtones are typically poor because they are monophonic instead of polyphonic (offers multiple sounds/pitches at the same time).

Today, the ability to get ringtones to your cell are controlled primarily by the cell phone carriers such as Sprint, Nextel, Verizon, T-Mobile, Cingular (including AT&T), CellularOne, etc. No longer are the manufacturers too involved. The carrier determines which ringtone merchants it allows to sell to its subscribers. Without the carrier, the merchants have no ability to get the ringtone from its database to the user’s mobile phone.

Because of the profitability metrics of ringtones, we expect that eventually ringtone manufacturers will sell ringtones themselves and bypass the carriers. Conversely, the carriers are a key distribution method for the manufacturers (the carriers offer deals whereby customers can purchase discounted cell phones). As such, the manufacturers may be reluctant to “bite the hand that feeds them.”