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- megagram, on 10/29/2007, -12/+150People who are resourceful and willing to put in a little bit of time figuring out how Bluetooth works, already have this ability. I use Bluetooth to send ringtones, themes, games and photos to my phone all for free!
But yeah, this will certainly bring it to the masses. Gotta love Apple. - blueorder, on 10/29/2007, -3/+90My question is: who actually pays for ring tones and wallpapers?
- coheedcollapse, on 10/29/2007, -5/+45I'm sorry but I have to agree.
This article is moot to anyone who either A) Has a cell phone less than 3 years old or B) Knows anything about how to use the nifty little program "Bitpim".
Now that I have a new phone I can transfer ringtones back and forth through my phone using bitpim, or if I really want to I can email a sound to my number and use that as a ringtone.
As for wallpapers, I've never had the need to use anything other than pictures I've taken with my phone, but I can do the same email thingy to get wallpapers over or if I really want to be a stickler use Bitpim.
I've never found the appeal of bought ringtones anyways, they're always either totally mainstream music or incredibly annoying. (Usually both). Sure the iPhone is nifty enough, but it's creation has nothing to do with the destruction of ringtone services. - Pentagonian, on 10/12/2007, -9/+42it's no ipod replacement with only 8gb. If I'm really getting this great deal and i never need another device again, than it needs to be able to store all my music, movies, and photos and this can't. So I'd drop 600 in a second if it truly meant i didn't need a black berry and an ipod... but this only goes halfway.
- TheCount, on 10/29/2007, -3/+29This is just another example of how people like to take what are indeed great Apple products, and give it some kind of freakish godly status. If you left it up to these people, we'd still be on the 1st gen iPod.
- WiZZLa, on 10/29/2007, -8/+29A fair amount of phones can already play mp3s, wavs, midis, etc as their ringtones anyway, so the "$.99-$2.99 for a ringtone" doesn't even hold true to them but because the iPhone does it (5 months from now), it means the death of a service?
Buried. - ben51959, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20There are many phones you can transfer your own music and wallpapers to. As long as there are teeny boppers, there will be a ringtone and wallpaper market.
- krunchy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23If only this were on a decent phone network.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22Good riddance. Paying $2 for a 30 second low-quality song is ***** ridiculous. At least some newer phones can have ringtones uploaded via bluetooth...
- TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16People keep saying it, but don't mention an alternative that reaches across the entire continent.
Verizon uses BREW and would SEVERELY limit any capability the iPhone had. Not only this, but they would pressure Apple into using their ***** VCast.
T-Mobile is more expensive and doesn't operate in the scope that Cingular has.
Those three (Verizon, T-Mobile, and Cingular) are the only three carriers that cover the whole US (more or less). There really ISN'T an alternative.
(For the record - I'm sadly a Verizon customer for another 1.5 years.) - inactive, on 10/29/2007, -6/+19lol is this news? who the hell still buying ringtones these days, accept dumb middle school kids who are just happy to have a cellphone for the first time. I used to own a Razr for more than 2 years and have been uploading mp3s into my phone for ringtones since the first day i have my Razr 2 years ago. Unless you have a cheapass phone with no bluetooth or no usb connection, you can use any mp3 as ringtones, welcome to 2007 ROFL. Again WTF kinda story is this? People in the State are so technology retarded its not even funny. Go to Asia if you have time, they have highspeed 3G network since forever, two way video conference capable cellphones are the norm, and gigabit ethernet is not just a dream, its a reality.
the iphone is pretty awesome and i want one, but to think that its the most technologically advance item you've ever seen is far far from the truth. I mean come on, it uses Cingular EDGE for crying out loud. Thats like me using a Mac Pro on dial up. - thatgirlismine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12The iPhone isn't the first phone that allows you to set your own rigntonee and wallpaper. The ringtone industry is kept alive by piece of ***** business tactics from companies like Verizon that specifically disable features built into the phone to allow it to play custom MP3s/MIDIs/what-have-you.
I just can't fathom how Verizon can be such of an ass to specifically disable Bluetooth on bluetooth enabled phones, so that you have to pay for ringtones, and only allowing for bluetooth headsets. - Tenlow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I was under the impression most phones already did that.
- ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Good!
I can't stand the ringtone/etc market.
Think about this:
iTunes: $.99/full song
Ring tone: $2-3 for a crappy 15-30sec clip
what a rip off. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12yeah, because the razr didn't have stuff like this at all? or every other phone released in the past 2 years
- DisposableRob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"My question is: who actually pays for ring tones and wallpapers?"
The same people who Digg inaccurate SEO spam blogs, apparently. - atbnet, on 10/29/2007, -6/+16Yeah way to go Apple for killing ringtones. Like we couldn't do this ***** over two or three years ago.
Anything to stroke Apple Fans egos a bit.
Good job people. - pongx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8flipmeat, Apple has already demoed using your own photos for wallpapers and I'm pretty sure that they demoed the phone ringing with a custom ringtone, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
- Ensnared, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7This is stupid. Just because Apple launches a phone with there capabilities doesn't mean the end of these things. Other manufacturers have sold phones with this kind of functionality for years, and strangely enough, those services are still around.
The statement is just wishful fanboy thinking riddled with ignorance and shortsightedness. - jparkinson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7most mp3 phones do already do this...
my phone (SE w810i with 4gb memory stick) does almost all of the iphones features minus the touchscreen stuff and you can put mp3s as ringtones as with most mp3 phones. - glasgowm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The first ipod was $599 and only 5GB, and it was a brick.
6 years later and you can pick up a 80GB Video ipod for $350
120GB ipod phone with 3G support for $399 soon enough :) - catalysis, on 10/29/2007, -4/+11Yeah Ive had this feature on my motorola phone that I bought in June 2004. I can make any mp3 or .wav the ringtone. Right now I have the ring that I recorded from 24 :D
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Yea, a $600 phone is going to shut down a service aimed at people who got crippled phones for free (after rebate)
Those businesses will eventually go away, but I think it's kind of lame to say iPhone signals it, there are tons of uncrippled phones already where those services don't apply. - jaydj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This article was intentionally written to get hits. The web address has "SEO" in the damn URL. WTF? Why are people digging this. It's not news. It's nothing new.
It's a link so this guy can get better google rankings for his clients. Look at all of the f!@#ing "treasure tags" on the left of the page. - YumZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Why are you assuming that every single person wanting a new phone will get an iPhone? Paying for ringtones and such will continue.
- chrispen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6My phone has about 64mb memory, when compared to this new iPhone isn't much but I still have the complete ability to bluetooth a song over to my phone from my laptop and I end up spending no money other than for the music which I already own. So I don't see how this one phone will kill off ringtones, more so I don't really understand why people are still making money off of ringtones with the ability of phones today and the increasing memory sizes it slightly baffles me.
- abstracted, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I've never purchased a ringtone or wallpaper in my life... since my very first phone that had the ability to store such, I've been making my own. It only takes a few minutes to do so and if people were smarter, the "ringtone industry" wouldn't exist in the first place.
- ziadoz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The mobile phone market is saturated. I don't see how one more shiny expensive phone is suddenly going to revolutionise it all. Plenty of other phones have allowed normal pictures and sound files from your computer as wallpapers or ring tones before.
- atbnet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@777lucky
Think drunk dialing to the max. - JoeyDeacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5People dumb enough to pay for ringtones are too stupid and thus too poor to buy the iPhone.
- cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"So I'd drop 600 in a second if it truly meant i didn't need a black berry and an ipod... "
Most, not all but most BlackBerry users are corporate users who use it as a connection for enterprise (Exchange) messaging. I'm really doubting Apple will create a connector for Exchange like Blackberry Enterprise Server. Crack-Berrys will still be ubiquitous for Enterprise users... - Capta1nA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4my nokia has bluetooth but won't allow custom ringtones. thanks, verizon.
- Denver80203, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Personally I'm so sick of i(whatever) that I wouldn't buy one if it got an ibeer from the ifridge.
600 bucks for 8 GB on EDGE networks without Blackberry/Enterprise support? No tactile buttons?
OS X? Why?????
Just to get dugg down even more:
Battery life Sucks or Jobs would have bullet pointed it.
I'll be shocked if the phone actually gets decent reception with all that other stuff packed in there.
You love it? Have you tried it?
I have not either but, there's plenty of experience to show that a lot of what they are doing here just doesn't work.
This is perfect for a poser. - Pic0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4smartphones have been able to use mp3s and any pictures for a while. yet these services are still around.
- pongx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Indeed, but the iPod started out at $400 and now you can get a Nano for like $200. I'm sure Apple is already working on some iPhone Nano for the masses. It's only a matter of time. Also, just being able to already use your own music library will be a big deal for a lot of people.
- alexpigment, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i definitely stand behind megagram up at the top. i have a nokia 6255i that i LOVE, because i feel that nokia has the BEST user interface and obviously the best service. oh, you have dropped calls on your phone? check to see if the brand Motorola is on your phone (people love that razr, even at the expense of ***** signal). anyway, i've been bluetoothing wallpapers, ringtones, and video to my phone for well over a year now. luckily this phone lets me set mp3s as ringtones, so i just made a simple ringtone out of phone rings that i found through altavista audio search, bluetoothed it over and bam. my background is of a desktop wallpaper by headvoid at deviantart.com; i simply looked up the res of my screen (which is actually not far off from the iphone res, though smaller size screen) and photoshopped accordingly. say i bittorrented a new tv show and want to watch it in my free time...i throw it into Super (google "super") and encode into 3gp and bluetooth it over to the phone to watch later. seriously, all of the things mac has been introducing has been available for years, but people have had to THINK to achieve the same effects. i have an "iTV" at my house as well. I have my laptop hooked up to my television with Windows Media Center edition, which streams wirelessly from my desktop computer upstairs, hooked directly into my linksys router. None of my media is on the laptop, yet close to a terabyte of music, video, etc is at my hands via my remote. I applaud Apple for making these types of services streamlined and available to the average user, yet I feel like the world is catching up to us power users, and that's always a little bit hard to take for people 'in the know', but oh well. welcome to the digital world, peoples.
- dichter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Ringtone and Wallpaper business has been in decline for years. I'm a Apple fanboy myself, but come on, next we will hear iPhone cures cancer....
- drewjoh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I do this with my Windows Mobile phone as it is now... you can copy over and select any music file as a ringer.
Not saying that the iPhone isn't awesome or anything, cause it looks fantastic... just saying... well... that this isn't a first I guess... - macsith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4GOOD! they can stop spamming TV adds all day with there lamo cheap sounding ringtones. Death to them all!!!!
- weirdness, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"People who make more money than you do, have their own home and can get laid without paying for it."
I almost made a comment about how you sounded like a rich fratboy ***** but then I noticed that you called yourself aristotle0dude and thought that would be redundant. - OneZeroZeroOne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Who the ***** actually buys ringtones?
Whenever someone's custom ring goes off all I can think is "wow what a retard"
Nobody cares what kind of music you like, and they especially don't want to have to hear it. Or you. When you're screaming on your phone in public. - MajorMauser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3goodbye crazy frog hahahhahhahahhahah
- bobmagoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4for those who say you can already transfer songs and other stuff over to a phone:
i have verizon and i bought the usb cable for my phone only to find that i can't transfer music files, not because the technology doesn't exist, but because jolly old verizon disabled that functionality. i'm sure if i wanted to i could find a workaround, but for the mainstream audience, this is pretty cool although it is a little too much like chicken little to say that this is the end of ringtone services. - xelloss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I just send tones to my phone using this http://www.funformobile.com/pages/ringtone/uploadRingtone.php
It was on digg like http://digg.com/music/Great_site_to_send_free_ring_tones_to_your_cell_phone. 636 days ago but it rocks and works fast - Vergeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This has been around for years. This is not news.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3otomo...you are assuming that the average customer CARES about this phone, thus forcing the other companies to invent new things to compete. You are DEAD wrong. . Or is this pull things out of your worthless fanboy ass day?
The VAST majority of cell phone surveys always have the SAME thing as most desired feature of a phone. and that is FEWER BELLS AND WHISTLES and more focus on the PHONE. Meaning clarity of sound on both ends, and its ability to operate in areas of relatively low signal strength. Follow that up with battery life, size, uravbility...and near the last are things like the iPhone offers.
This is a fanboy phone. And as much as your moronically want to beleive it, most people that own an iPod are NOT fanboys who are willing to suck Steve Jobs ***** like you are. If they were, then far more than 8% of them would have bought a Mac, but they haven't. - Cr0z, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Most phones are locked down"
Not in the UK they're not. - kilroy0097, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3 * Motorola MPx220
Running the Microsoft Mobile operating system, Motorola's multitalented phone handles MP3 playback and has productivity features for keeping your life together.
* Nokia 3300
This one has a built-in keyboard for instant messages and e-mail. Additionally, it has MP3 playback and can be expanded with a flash memory SD card.
* Siemens SX1
Aside from MP3 playback, Siemens's smart little number has a camera/camcorder, an FM tuner, Bluetooth, and other goodies.
* Sony Ericsson P900
Outlook users will appreciate this MP3-playing phone's e-mail integration, and music fans who are handy with a stylus will be even happier.
Those are 4 phones already that have MP3 capability and probably the ability to play music files as ringtones. The I-Phone isn't anything new. Apple just has the hottest electronic accessory in the world with the I-Pod and will sell the I-Phone in the same way. Look at it! It's Pretty! You will buy it now... look into my eyes. Buy it because it will make you popular. etc etc. - cracell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'm so lost. There's tons of phones with the caps to get them free already. I went through Apple's page on the iPhone, and while impressive, it does nothing that hasn't been done before. It may do the combination of things, and it may do them better, but it's not some revolutionary device, it's evolutionary. And expensive.
Yes I want one. But I'd never pay over 200 bucks for a device I could easily lose/break through my own stupidity (easily is the keyword there). - flipmeat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Apple and Cingular haven't said diddly about ringtone/wallpaper policy. We all assume, myself included, that it will be something sensible, but that may not turn out to be the case. The original article is complete speculation.
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