Want a break from the usual plethora of games and ring tones on your phone? Put down the shield and sword and test your intellect with a mobile IQ test!
Challenge your friends to a battle of brains, using your phone! In addition to viewing the results of your test, after PIN verification you will receive access to a number of interesting and amazing facts you can impress your peers with!
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Jamster
Overall Rating: 3.5 Stars
Price: $9.99
Selection: 3 Stars
Customer Support: 3 Stars
User Friendly: 3.5 Stars
If ringtones for cell phones is what you’re looking for then Jamster will definitely meet all of your needs and then some. They have a large variety of ringtones and a lot of other mobile services. You can literally browse the site for hours and not get through all 50,000 downloads. Their website is kind of dull and when it comes to being user friendly, we give it one half thumb up. Fun Mobile will most likely meet all of your cell phone needs. Overall, we give them 3.5 stars.
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Compatible Carriers:
Verizon, Alltel, T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, SunCom
Genre Categories:
- Blues, Classical, Country, Fight Songs, Film and Television, Holiday, Jazz, Latin, Most Popular, Pop and Dance,
R & B, Hip Hop, Rap, Christian, Gospel, Rock, Alternative
Features:
- MP3 cell phone ringtones.
- Access cell phone wallpapers and graphics.
- Play mobile games and puzzles.
- Facebook photo portal.
- Flickr uploads.
- Upload pictures, videos, and audio files
from your cell phone onto the Internet.
- Share your media with other Jamster
members.
Fun Mobile Pricing:
- $9.99 / month
Summary:
Jamster is definitely a favorite. Their customer service is superior among other ringtone providers. Jamster’s wide selection and outstanding prices puts it right up there with the competition. They have fight songs and all of the latest gospel and christian ringtones. The only thing that holds them back from a perfect score is the layout of their website. It’s not as user friendly as I would like it.
TuneClub.com
Overall Rating: 4 Stars
Price: $9.99
Selection: 4 Stars
Customer Support: 4 Stars
User Friendly: 4 Stars
TuneClub is for the serious music lovers who are looking for popular and up to date ringtones for their cell phones. Their wide selection of ringtone downloads, media and social networking choices make this website a very popular location on the web. The TuneClub website is very user friendly. You don’t have to do much clicking of the mouse to find what you’re looking for. Overall, we gave TuneClub our coveted top spot rated them with 4 stars.
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Compatible Carriers:
- Nextell, T-Mobile, Sprint, Alltel, CellularOne, AT&T
Genre Categories:
- Alternative, Blues, Christian, Gospel, Classical, Country, Dance,
Hip Hop, Rap, Jazz, Latin, New Age, Pop, R&B Soul, Reggae, Rock,
TV & Cinema
Features:
- Music videos
- 1,000s of ringtones
- Social networking
- DRM free downloads
- Web and mobile product choices.
TuneClub Pricing:
- MP3’s can also be used as mobile content for most carriers.
- MP3 downloads per month / $9.99
- No credit cards are required.
Summary:
The latest ringtones for your cell phones, mobile videos, an online community, high-quality DRM-free MP3s and a very cool website. From Alternative to Rock to Christian and Gospel ringtones; What more could you want? I didn’t need anything else but if I did TuneClub would definitely supply it for me. Besides the fact that there is a chance of spam and sometimes long wait times…This is definitely the King of the hill. The advantages seriously outweigh the disadvantages. But don’t let me decide for you…Check it out for yourself.
Mobile Funster
Overall Rating: 4 Stars
Price: $9.99
Selection: 4 Stars
Customer Support: 5 Stars
User Friendly: 4 Star
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Compatible Carriers:
AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Cellular One, Nextel, Boost, Alltel, Virgin, Centennial Wireless, Cincinnati Bell, Cricket,
U.S. Cellular, Unicel
Features:
- Hard to find ringtones
- Compatible with major cell phone carriers
- Nice selection of graphics
Mobile Funster Pricing:
- Poly Ringtone subscription: $9.99 month with 5 credits.
Summary:
I would use Mobile Funster to get those hard to find ringtones.
I don’t even know what kinds of ringtones that they offer because there’s no list. One great thing is they do support the major carriers and popular cell phone manufacturers. Mobile Funster offers a lot of graphics that are great.
In the growing world of changing technology, the cell phone remains supreme. Cell phones are getting smaller, thinner and doing a lot more than just allowing people to talk without being plugged into a land line. However, as cell phones evolve, so do the people that use them. Hip Hop and many other genres of music are really catching on.
In this age of downloadable music versus the compact disk, people want to take their favorite song with them wherever they go. Many cell phones are now including MP3 players for this very purpose.
To keep up with the popular trend of downloading songs, some cell phone providers are creating a way for people to download ringtones of their favorite songs. One such site that does this is Flycell offers users several different genres of ringtones to choose from like R&B, Hip Hop, Holiday, Pop, Rock, Country/Folk, Latin, Sports Tones and more. The Flycell web site is very user friendly and allows you to look up ringtones by genre, or simply type in and search for the song you may be looking for.
If you are into wallpaper as well, the website offers the absolute latest in those too. Choose from cartoons & stuff, nature/animals, celebrities, sports, movies/music and others. There are also screen savers available. It also gives users categories such as action, adventure, arcade, virtual life, casino and puzzle for their game choices. To complete your cell phone needs, the website offers news and gossip, health & fitness and daily horoscope updates sent directly to you with their text services. The site tauts many tabs for choosing exactly what you want with the service.
One major question about this service would be the cost of downloads. Like many other ringtone sites, Flycell works on a subscription basis. The service bills you directly through your cell phone provider, and to sign up you only need to enter your cell phone number and agree to the terms and conditions listed on the site.
For $9.99 per month, you receive the “ClubPack” service which includes 20 credits per month that can be used towards ringtones, wallpaper, games, applications, screen savers, themes and other products. Some download can be two or three credits depending on what they are. All credits do expire at the end of the month.
Another important question concerns which cell phone providers Flycell works with as well as which cell phones. Available is a neat feature that allows you to enter your provider and your phone model before signing up to see if it’s compatible with the services available. Once you find your phone, the web site gives a diagram of which downloads will work with your phone.
Some of the providers that are listed on the site are T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Dobson, CellularOne, Virgin Mobile and SunCom.
Blackberry phones have made their special place in the category of business phones. They have become necessity for the business people who are using them. From time to time blackberry has launched several models in the market as per the needs and the requirements of the user. This time it has brought the Blackberry Storm 9500 which is 3G touch screen phone. The phone has all the blackberry features along with others as well.
Good Looks
Having good looks is an integral part of any type of phone. No one of us would wish to have an ugly looking phone no matter how advance it is in its technology. Blackberry Storm 9500 has impressive looks that matches your style. The phone has physical dimension of 112.5 X 62.2 X 14 mm with weight of 155g. The black colored casing of the phones makes it look more sophisticated.
Wide Display
The display of the phone is wide with 3.25 inches of screen. The high resolution of the screen with 360 X 480 pixels along with 65k colors gives vibrant and clear view to the user for controlling and viewing features.
Get Ready to Say Cheese
The phone has 3.2 MP cameras with resolution of 2048 X 1536 pixels that is capable of taking good quality images. The flash and the auto focus features of the camera further enhance the quality of picture by making them more sharp and clear. Besides taking still images the phone can also record videos.
Stay Connected
You can always stay globally connected with the 3G feature of the phone. The phone has the quad band with HSDPA which facilitates the fastest means of accessing the data on mobile. Other connectivity features of the phone are GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth and USB socket.
Perfect Memory
The phone has 128 MB of Flash memory along with the 1 Gigabyte of memory on board. So now you can store all your important data and information in the phone. And even then if you want to increase the memory you can do so by adding a Micro SD card up to 8 gigabyte.
Options for Dual Keyboard
Blackberry Storm 9500 has 2 types of options for typing in your mails, SMS or text. If the phone is held in normal upright position it will have Sure Type keypad to do the input. But if the phone is rotated and brought into the landscape position then a QWERTY keypad appears for easy and fast typing.
Loaded Features to Facilitate Work
Being a blackberry phone it has loaded features that facilitate you in your work. The organizer and the calendar features of the phone allow you to keep track of your meetings and appointments. The DataViz document To Go allows the viewing and the editing files of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. All the office features of the phone are well integrated in the OS so that they can be accessed quickly and conveniently even when you are on a call.
Thus if you are looking for a business phone along with great looks and features, then Blackberry Storm 9500 is a perfect choice for you.
The new Blackberry Storm joins the recently released Blackberry 8900 in the manufacturers line-up for 2009.
Ringtones not only get our attention but also of the people around you. This is the most prominent feature of the cell phone. This also is the most defining feature of your cell phone. It tells a stranger a lot about you. It tells your choice of songs, your interest in technology, your mood and your personal style. All of this with out a word in conversation.
You can download your favorite song/tunes freely and easily from websites. As soon as a song is launched one can be sure that almost immediately it will be turned into a ringtone. Artists these days get popular with the use of ringtones. The popularity of the song is reflected by the number of people that download a song. It is distressing for people to be surprised by their favorite song while they are having a long day.
There is huge variety of ringtones available. One could get absolutely confused when picking out one. Since it does not occupy a lot of space on the cell phone memory, people save a number of ring tones. This allows this allows them to switch between the ring tones as often as they please.
For ringtone to play successfully on your cell phone, you may need to download software for compatibility. The installation settings are different in very phone that you use. Free ring tones can be received or downloaded as soon as the phone is activated. Not every phone company allows free download of the ring tones but some at a minimal cost. Most of the cell phones theses days come with a huge variety of ring tones which makes life easy for technologically challenged people. They can now have fun and funky ring tones without learning how to download them. Although choice is limited for them.
For the creative minds, some cell phones allow you to create your own ring tones. This can be done by either recording your own voice or favorite sound or composing the tune by typing on the cell phone key pad. One can also copy their friend’s tune by going through his composer settings and typing the notes on you phone. Even simpler method is the use of Bluetooth. This allows instantaneous transfer of tune from one phone to another, without wasting any time. Most of the new phones come with the Bluetooth and all they need is activation. For using Bluetooth, your friend’s cell phone must have a Bluetooth as well.
Along with the increasing demand for the latest ringtones, the number of websites offering the latest melodies over the Internet has also soared. Every website tries to outdo each other in their quest to obtain and retain customers with innovative products and marketing strategies.
Cell phone users have many options to download ringtones from the net. The higher end mobile phones having the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) function helps a customer to surf the Internet directly in easy steps and get their choicest melodies downloaded as ringtones of his mobile phone. But this service is chargeable and is more costly than surfing the internet for a ringtone through other means like wi-fi or cable internet connections. The speed is also on the lower side, but the advantage is that it is safer than the other means from virus and trojan attacks.
Another trend, especially among the youth, is to download melodies directly from the kiosks owned and serviced by mobile service providers themselves. The added advantage here is that in addition to the downloading facilities, there will be a customer care executive always available to advice and help the not so well informed customer.
Sharing ringtones and other files between two cell phone owners is also common. Here, infra-red or Bluetooth wireless connection is used. The difference between the two is that infra-red wireless connection range is somewhat less in comparison with that of the Bluetooth. Infra-red technology, which is getting outdated and outmoded, can transfer tones or any data only if the recipient and the sender hand sets are compatible to each other. A comparatively modern technology, the Bluetooth has a longer range and there is no need to align the sender and recipient cell phones.
Along with the advantages of getting tones downloaded from the Internet, a host of security problems have also cropped up. Viruses and Trojans are big dangers. A customer needs to be extra-cautious and judicious while buying or downloading ringtones free of cost. However, with the advent of latest functions and capabilities in hand sets, people can download and customize their ringtones easily and safely. But the threat of viruses will always be present necessitating utmost caution from the user whenever he wishes for a new tone. There is also the added threat of getting your hand set hacked by innovative but unscrupulous elements. Irrespective of the level of advancement of technologies, the attacks by the malicious viruses and hackers will never cease.
Then there are some who sell pirated music as ringtones to unsuspecting customers. The practice can do untold harm to both music and ringtone industry as it can wheel away a substantial chunk of the revenue generated by the real owners of the music tracks, which in turn can dampen the growth of the industry. It is illegal too.
Another hazard is the hidden charges levied by service providers for downloading a ringtone. There is always a possibility of your credit card information leaked out by individuals looking for easy money.
However, the real joy of having up to date ringtones in your mobile phone and getting noticed though them is so great that these drawbacks has not prevented cell phone users from browsing the Internet and downloading their choicest music for their mobile phones on a regular basis.
Ringtones, irrespective of whether they are the old fashioned monophonic tones or the ultra modern true tones, serves the same purpose, that is, to alert the phone owner that there is an incoming call.
However, living according to the times is of phenomenal importance these days. You have to show that you have it. Your confidence is pumped up and you can face up to anything or anybody if you have that most important attitude in life. Our modern clothing, accessories, cosmetics and even the car you drive have to be up to date and unique and better than your peers. Cell phone melodies also are something like this. Your caller tones identify you instantly more than anything else as to show what you are and what your social status is. These days, everyone is trying to be one up on others in having a unique melody to gain attention and garner the envy of others, because a melody identify the quality and sophistication of your cell phone.
Due to this, downloading ring tones from different websites has become a huge rage among people, especially the youth. Many people are simply crazy about tones and showing them off in public.
Knowledge about the different types of ringtones and whether they are compatible with one`s mobile phone is a must for people looking to download ring tones into their mobiles. The primary type, the monophonic ringtone, is compatible with most mobile phones, but is out dated. The polyphonic melodies are more interesting, but the rage of the day is the true tones. But older versions of mobile phones cannot play these, whereas the newer cell phones from all major manufacturers have true tones compatibility.
It is of paramount importance that one must have enough knowledge about own cellphone and its functions. Whether your handset can play these tones depend upon the brand, model, features and capabilities of it.
Trying to set a modern MP3 format tone into your old fashioned cell phone would be like putting an oversized show on a small foot. As the volumes in ringtone business is more or less the same as the hand set industry itself, many companies have started providing pirated tones and music. This is highly illegal and unethical.
Since the market for ringtones is growing, many companies have joined in the race to stake a claim to a piece of this cake. Leading music companies like MTV have formed partnerships with service providers to sell their music and recordings directly to customers. Here, the companies tries to feel the pulse of the ringtone market by evaluating which song is more in demand, and by offering very competitive prices, lures a customer into their fold. This field has become a goldmine for telecom operators too.
The huge popularity and demand for the latest caller tones has thus spawned such a huge industry that, in not so distant future, can dwarf even the entire cell phone industry in comparison.
To help feed this popularity of swapping ring tones, the ring tone converter was created and has become very popular. Ring tone converters do more than just transfer the tones, they also help to download them and some also compose as well. To make it even simpler, most modern cell phones are able to use the SMS service to transmit ring tones between phones. The software to run cell phones is different with each manufacturer but that is not a problem for cellular phone ring tone converters. Some older or more basic models may not have a built in converter but it may still be possible for you to use the existing phones ring tone creator.
The availability of ring tone converters which do not require cables and infrared connections, prove to be easy to use if you need to download cellular phone ring tones. Cell phones with built in ring tone composers are becoming the new way to have that individual sound. This is not as gimmicky as you think with many really good ring tones having started out as a creation of someone with a ring tone composer. The latest ring tone converters also have this capability so there is no need to worry if your cell phone does not have a composer
Increasing numbers of internet sites now provide this service with some allowing you to create your own ring tone online. Some sites download the ring tone via SMS, others with the converter and some still use the old fashioned way of downloading it to your personal computer.
The only thing you will have to sort out is locating the correct software that will work with your ring tone converter. Being the master of your own ring tones is only this small step away and then who knows who you might want to pass them on to!
Having all these information, you may go to various internet sites and look for the best monophonic or polyphonic ring tones, which you may feel are suitable for your cell phone. Just make sure that your phone can support the technology and if it can, that you use the correct software for your cell phone and you shouldn’t have any problems. From my experience with cell phones, they normally come with a huge choice of ring tones, sometimes they don’t even have a traditional ring anymore so you may well find one on the phones system that you like.
