A long, long time ago in a Nokia factory far far away the first mobile phone was build. And
with the birth of that mobile phone the first ring tone was born: The Nokia Tune. This Nokia tune was the first ring tone of them all, and who
could have guessed that it would create a multi billion dollar business in the next few years...
The first ring tone was the nokia tune, this ring tone was a simple one-melodic mono phonic ring tone. And it created a huge product to a -then-
small market. But the market grew bigger and soon everyone had a mobile phone. And then the ring tones became a big business because everyone
wanted his/hers own ring tone to personalize their phone. The mono phonic ring tones were a big blast in the music industry and the follow-up
polyphonic ring tones were even bigger then those mono phonic ring tones. The polyphonic ring tones market grew and grew as there came more and
more mobile phone users. And soon it was time for a new product to introduce to the market: real tones... Its not easy to find free mp3 ringtones as getting them to your handset is not easy to do free.
Real tones are now the biggest hit in Europe and Asia and will soon be in the USA as well. The newest mobile phones support real tones and mp3
sounds. Real tones are based on mp3, and other music formats. They're no longer simple midi files. But real songs! From the real artists! The
real tone is hot at the moment and is only getting hotter and hotter. Because a lot of phones still do not support them. Only the newest
high-tech phones support real tones. But in a few years when there are no new mobile phones available that don't support real tones everyone will
focus on the real tones. And this business niche will only grow in the future of mobile entertainment. Real tones are already available all over
the globe, real tones websites are popping up on the Internet like crazy. And the customers keep buying new real tones for their mobile phones.
But the real tones still are quite expensive, they're even more expensive then the full songs bought on Itunes or other online download shops. In
fact for the price of one real tone you could easily buy the whole song, and the real tone is only 30 seconds of the song. Also a real tone costs
twice as much as the polyphonic ring tone or the mono phonic ring tone. But there are still a lot of people buying them.
Different sort of real tones are the name tones. Name tones are real tones where you get called by your name. It isn't a real song of a
popular artist but it's a standard song but with your name in it. Something like: Hey Pete your mobile phone rings, pick it up!
You have different sorts of name tones, there are pop name tones, bubblin name tones, hardcore name tones, r&b name tones and a lot more
genres to choose from. But these name tones are mp3 based so your mobile phone has to support real tones to play them on your mobile phone. Also
the name tones are mostly the same price as the real tones.
So if you look at the past when the mono phonic ring tones were a huge hype in the mobile entertainment business, and later on the polyphonic
ring tones became huge. The real tones and name tones will probably be the next huge mobile entertainment hype.
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