Since the advent of cellular phones, cellular phone manufacturers have cottoned on to the fact that it is necessary to produce phones with more and more features to allow cell phone users to flaunt their phones as high-tech gadgets and entertainment devices, and not just communication devices. In the competitive market of cell phone manufacture, in order to stay ahead of the competition, cellular phone manufacturers therefore had to build in features such as the ability to load polyphonic ring tones, cell phone wallpapers and even cell phone javascript games.
Growing alongside this phenomenon is the rise of software and gadgets that assist in the management of cell phone ring tones, wallpapers and games. One such example is the cellular phone ring tone converter that assists with downloading ring tones from the Internet, and also with transferring ring tones from one phone to the other.
The transfer of ring tones via SMS is also possible although the newest versions of ring tone converter programs boast that they do not require SMS to transfer the ringtones to your cell phone.
So how do ring tone converters work?
Ring tone converters can be either downloaded from the Internet as a free trial from the popular software download site - Download.com, or bought commercially (look for Coding Workshop Ring Tone Converter). You can also make use of some free utilities on the Internet itself such as Uniring. This will convert any Nokia (NokRing) or RTTTL format ring tone into the format used by your specific cell phone.
There seem to be a variety of software options available, so which one would you use where?
For the scenario where you have music or songs on your PC in one of the following formats - WAV, MP3, MMF, AMR, QCP, you can use the converter that is available from Download.com to convert into ring tone format.
Apart from that, your can also use the free service of Uniring to convert from NokRing or RTTTL, or some of the more sophisticated software packages that run on your PC (look for the CodingWorkshop Ringtone Converter) to convert any piece of music and export to one of the following formats: Nokring, eMelody V1.0 (.emy), iMelody V1.2 (.imy), RTTTL, My Melody, Kyocera (.kws), Samsung PCLink (.amf), Motorola binary (*.vrt), Nokia binary, wave (.wav), Smaf (.mmf) and Midi (.mid) file formats.
After you have converted your piece of music into the right format of your phone, it also then depends on your phone with regards to how to get that ring tone into your phone! In some cases, you can transfer the ringtone directly from your PC to your phone either through a WAP server, or by keying in the melody into your phone, or by making use of data cables.
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