Several websites claim that they offer free ring tones, most of the time it is true. But, sometimes it may be a scam as they may only offer free ring tones to people who have paid on a membership or bought something else or the ring tones offered for free are used without paying royalties to the owner of the rights for the music or theme.
Many websites which offer free ring tones have been asked to close down as they lure the public with the free ring tones for featuring offensive content or annoying pop up advertisements on their cell phones or may even install malicious software on their cells. While getting free ring tones, it should be checked if they are free from spy ware installations or advertisements. Since all the popular tunes are copyright protected, it is good to find out if the site that is offering free ring tones pays the royalty to the artists concerned.
Mobile manufacturers usually provide free ring tones along with their cell phone models. A free ring tone in the cell phone may be a special sound effect trademark of the cell phone model and manufacturer. This is mainly to create a distinction among the various cell phone models and manufacturers with the sound effect. However, if a customer is not satisfied with one free ring tone and finds possibilities of downloading different types of ring tones this is due to the fact that the free ring tones provided are not usually polyphonic. Playing polyphonic ring tones depends on the type of the cell phone used. Due to the advancements in the technology most of the high-end phones have this feature of polyphonic playing. Ring tones can be assigned to incoming text or voice call or even to the contacts so that identification becomes easy.
WAV Ring Tones:
Due to the demand for unique ring tones, lots of ring tone companies have sprung up to meet the demand. It is very challenging for such companies to meet the demands of the customers and stay on top of the new trends and technologies by offering free ring tones. A person can get a free ring tone if he knows what kind of ring tone he requires. The latest of the kind is the WAV ring tone. It is the short form of “wave” which is a type of audio formatting, able to be stored on a personal computer. Free WAV ring tones can be copied from the computer to the cell phone and can be set as a ring tone. This facility is possible with all kinds of smart phones. There is a huge collection of such ring tones easily available to the consumers for free.
Ways of getting free ring tones:
Free ring tones can be obtained from a friend’s cell phone by asking him to send them, but the choices may be restricted with the availability of the ring tones on the friend’s cell phone or free ring tones can be shared if both the sender and receiver have infrared capability without spending any money for sending and receiving the ring tone or they can be got from the cell phone company if there is any free ring tones promotions going on which is known through advertisements or SMS etc to the consumer or they can be downloaded from the websites offering free ring tones.
Author Resource:-
David Hensley is an expert author specialized in electronic accessories and gadgets. He contributes several informative articles regularly to http://www.shopperworld.info that helps find the right cell phone plan and http://www.hotdealonline.info that carries exhaustive information on free ring tones and free cell phones.
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