Showing Some Ringtone Love

Do you remember, way back in the day, when ringtones were nowhere near as important as they are now? You had your 9 factory rings, and that was all you could choose from. People were content with this lack of selection because, well, that's all there was.

But, contentment with humans doesn't always last long, and soon people wanted more than the 2 pound cell phones with 3 bell rings. From that point, cell phones progressed to factory monophonic ringtones with simple melodies like "Happy Birthday" or "Brahm's Lullaby" or any of those other classic songs the phone companies resorted to. It was enough to satiate the hunger for new ringtones for a little while.

Alas, this was not to last either. Soon people wanted popular songs. So, for the low price of $1.49 per ringtone, a person could purchase super cool polyphonic ringtones with songs that may not have necessarily been the newest releases but were certainly better than the classics of the day before.

Now, for the rather hefty price of $2.49, you can get short (and rather insufficient) clips of the newest arrival songs, with quality good enough to actually sound like the song itself and not just a keyboard rendering of it.

Now, for those of us poor souls with a Sidekick, the following information won't apply. But for those who have phones with mp3 ringtone capability, you might want to hop over to makeownringtone.com. All you have to do is upload a song from your computer, select the portion of the song you want, and voila! You have your very own ringtone sent to your phone.

The best part about it is that it's completely free.

I'm not getting paid to share this information...I just look back on my days with my Razr and remember how fun it used to be to create my very own ringtones that I could play for my friends with pride. You, too, can feel that pride.