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Barbesurvey: Ring Tones

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Axolotl

17:07 / 13.01.06

GL & Toksik: I used to have The Sweeney theme as my ringtone too. It often provoked comment in the pub which was kind of cool.
I don't find ringtones annoying as a concept, though people's choice of ring tone often annoy me. Especially if you work with someone who leaves their phone unattended and it goes off every 20 minutes, then it really begins to grate.
I used to have the Imperial March, which I enjoyed, but stopped using once I realised just how much of a geek it made me look. Now I flit between "ring-ring" or something more frivolous if the mood takes me.

paranoidwriter waves hello

17:07 / 13.01.06

As someone with hearing difficulties, I'd love to be able to rely my mobile phone's vibrate mechanism to alert me to calls, but when I'm at home I don't carry it around the house with me, and when I'm out - like Tango-Mango - I often don't feel it vibrating. Also, I seem to have difficulty hearing certain pitched notes from a distance or in a noisy environment, which is why (aside from the obvious childish reasons) I've come to really appreciate the 'Close Encounters' signature tune. i.e. the range. Over the past few years, I've managed to accidentally wipe the tune a couple of times (I've got an old phone) and had to spend ages reprogramming it because I couldn't hear the in-built ringtones and kept missing calls.

Loomis

17:29 / 13.01.06

I used to have the Imperial March, which I enjoyed, but stopped using once I realised just how much of a geek it made me look.

A friend of mine was round the other week and his phone rang and that was his tune. I don't think he was very embarrassed though, considering we were playing Star Wars Trivial Pursuit at the time ...

Mysterious Transfer Student

17:50 / 13.01.06

fridge, that tune is diabolical. Plainly, you are only alive today because no one called you while it was installed on your phone.

My ringtone is a boringly standard 'ring, ring', but like others here I seldom if ever hear it, preferring to stay in stealth mode. This is down to bred-in-the-bone urbanite paranoia that convinces me that if my phone is heard ringing in a public place, it will be the cue for five hundred well-connected muggers to descend on me and tear it from my unconscious hand and use it to buy/sell drugs.

The best inappropriate ringtone I've ever heard was from some guy on the Newport to Cardiff train whose phone played the first few bars of 'London Calling' by The Clash. < Possibly not why that song was written.... >

Mysterious Transfer Student

18:08 / 13.01.06

Sorry, that last sentence of mine should have had big, fat sarcasm-delineators around it. I've stopped reading music papers, so shouldn't go sporting pompous, ageist "some music is sacred, maan" attitudes if I can avoid it.

Like Seth, I used to have a pic from FLCL as my phone wallpaper, but have replaced it with this image from the equally cool anime series Serial Experiments Lain. I dig it... it's like my phone is haunted.

iamus

01:05 / 14.01.06

I don't have a mobile phone but I have occassionally been known to whistle "Two Little Boys" by Rolf Harris.

BlueMeanie

10:37 / 14.01.06

The phone I've got (a Nokia 6610i) has a real lack of decent tones built into it, and what I really would like is a tone that's the ring of an old rotary telephone.

Does anyone know a way to create/upload such a thing into it? There's also the issue of wallpapers - it appears to be possible to upload your own in the form of jpegs, but once again, I'm not sure how. Any hints?

Ganesh

13:16 / 14.01.06

Same as Xoc: vibrate. I can't stand the intrusiveness of ringtones, and prefer to have that quietly insistent buzz just to the right of my cockage.

Keith, like a scientist

00:20 / 15.01.06

I've got the tune from "Close Encounters".

Off topic, but across the road from my apartment building is another apartment building, and someone in that building has an alarm clock that plays that tune. Weekends, at noon, it goes off really loudly and resonates down the whole street. Really wild.

BlueMeanie

01:58 / 15.01.06

I've found a great site for uploading files (such as pictures or tones) to your phone:
http://mobile17.smashsworld.com/

The Return Of Rothkoid

22:59 / 15.01.06

I've got Philip Glass's theme to Candyman on my phone, as it's pretty simple, and sounds good. Then again, mine records stuff for ringtones, so I suppose I could just have me going "ANSWER THE FUCKING PHONE!", which would suit.

diz

04:38 / 16.01.06

My cell phone from real life has some generic thing that was in the phone when I got it, but the cell phone the Red Cross gave me when I was in Louisiana played "When the Saints Go Marching In," which had a somewhat macabre effect overall.

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