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Forget the days of hearing that generic cell phone ring that made you anxiously reach into your purse and fumble for your phone. In today’s age of individualization, no one has reason to suffer through homogenous rings with the abundant supply of websites and providers that offer ringtones that can personalize your otherwise ordinary cell phone. Have a song that you love to listen to? Hop online and search for that specific tune and chances are you’ll find a ringtone to go with it. Then, customize the ringtone to play only the part you want to hear when friends call – or, assign a specific ringtone to one particular person. The options are endless.
There are only a few criteria to consider when choosing what website to download ringtones from. First, be sure that your cell phone is compatible with the ringtone you’ve chosen. Verizon users, for example, can be assured that any tune downloaded from Verizon’s website will work with their phone. If you’re considering using any other website or service, be sure to check and see that your phone will be capable of receiving and playing your ringtone. Secondly, be sure that sound quality is acceptable. Most websites will allow you to preview a ringtone before making a purchase. Thirdly, make sure that you understand how and when you will be charged for your purchase. Most major service providers will add any ringtone purchases to your next month’s bill. Once you have these three bases covered, hop online and get ready to jazz up your cell phone!
SouthernLINC
SouthernLINC Wireless offers a broad range of ringtones, wallpapers, calltones and applications. Many users will find that in order to download much of the offered content, they will need to perform a software upgrade on their phones; this is easily accomplished by visiting Motorola’s website and installing the necessary upgrades for the relevant model phone. Like other providers, SouthernLINC allows subscribers to choose from excerpted music, polyphonic rings, celebrity voices and unique sounds for ringtones. Ringtones cost $1.99 for the one-time download fee and are yours to keep for an unlimited amount of time. For phones that are capable of supporting digital content, SouthernLINC offers a plethora of applications that are unique amongst its competitors. Users can choose from financial solutions content, navigation and direction software, sports & entertainment platforms, and news & weather sources, just to name a few. Browsing for content for your specific phone model is easy with SouthernLINC’s handy filter feature. Customers can access all available downloads by visiting the “Browser Apps” function on a mobile device or on SouthernLINC’s website. Cell phone subscribers will appreciate SouthernLINC’s user-friendly purchasing process. When you are ready to buy a ringtone, application, or game, you can preview your purchase, click the “go” button, enter your phone number and you’re finished. Within a few minutes, you’ll receive a text message with a link to the tone or application and directions for installing it onto your phone.
Sprint
Similar to SouthernLINC, Sprint Mobile also offers a variety of personalized ringtones (called ringers) and calltones through its website and cellular phones. Unlike other cellular providers, Sprint offers subscribers a free ringer for the holidays on its website. Sprint’s ringer webpage, Digital Lounge, resembles any other online CD or music website with its sophisticated filter and search functions, graphical CD covers, and all of the hottest music. Sprint’s genres are expansive and appeal to nearly every consumer group by including everything from “Indie Greats” to “Songs for Baby Boomers.” Downloads from the Digital Lounge are $2.50 and appear on Sprint’s monthly bills. The Digital Lounge offers much more than just ringers; you’ll also find screensavers, themes and games. One unique feature in the Digital Lounge is the Content Manager, where subscribers can organize all of their downloads, preview audio clips of ringers and call tones, watch previews of new television shows, and resend purchases to new phones after upgrading cell phone models.
T-Mobile
T-Mobile offers subscribers a variety of ringtone options, including MegaTones, instrumental ringtones of favorite songs; HiFi Ringers, short clips of actual artist recordings; and CallerTunes, ringback tones that callers hear when calling your phone. MegaTones downloads are $1.99 each and can be downloaded by going to “t-zones” on your ringtone-capable phone and browsing the MegaTones category or by logging onto My T-Mobile. T-Mobile’s HiFi Ringers are excerpts from hit songs by today’s top-selling artists at $2.49 each. CallerTunes allow you to entertain your callers by playing excerpts from original artist recordings – and, you can set different CallerTunes for different people. For only $1.49 a month, you can download and store up to 15 CallerTunes; or, for $1.99 per tune, you can choose your tunes for a one-time download fee.
Verizon Wireless
Verizon also offers thousands of ringtones and ringback tones for download. Verizon calls its ringtones VZW Tones, which are available on all Get It Now enabled cellular phones or online at Verizon’s website. Verizon phones and its website allow users to preview ringtones and browse by different categories (like “What’s Hot” and “What’s New). Ringtones are handset specific, so before purchasing a ringtone, be sure to check that your phone is compatible with your chosen tunes. When ready to purchase, users can preview ringtones, add to an online cart, and agree to have the $2.99 fee added to his/her next bill. Each ringtone is available for $2.99. Although it’s tempting to search for free ringtone downloads on the plethora of ringtone websites out there, users should beware: Verizon blocks ringtones from any site other than its “Get It Now” platform from downloading to any of its phones.
AT&T (formerly Cingular Wireless)
AT&T offers subscribers the option to join the Tone Club, a service that allows you to download ringtones every month at a discount. Subscribers can choose from a 3- , 6-, or 9-pack set. This service is available as a monthly subscription that ranges from $5.99 to $9.99 per month. Charges incurred from the Tone Club appear on monthly bills. AT&T also offers a MyMEdia Club, a feature that you can add to your account that allows you to download ringtones, graphics and games from the AT&T Media Mall or directly from your phone for a monthly subscription fee that ranges from $5.99 to $14.99. To download ringtones from AT&T, first ensure that you have a compatible phone (visit the AT&T website to search for your phone and ensure that you have a model that will support the ringtones you want). For those who aren’t interested in a subscription service, you can purchase ringtones a la carte for a one-time fee of $2.49; AT&T also charges for the number of kilobytes or minutes used for the download. Charges for ringtones are reflected on monthly wireless bills. AT&T customers can search for ringtones in one of three ways: online at the AT&T Wireless website, on cellular phones via Media Net (your wireless phone’s version of the internet), or via text messaging. Once the ringtone is transmitted to your phone, you’ll receive a series of prompts that will indicate how to save your ringtone as a default or a specific setting.
Cricket
Cricket offers countless downloads through its web browsers on all web-enabled phones, allowing Cricket users to customize their phones with the hottest games, tunes and applications around. To make buying even easier, Cricket offers a simple click and buy process on its mobile phones, allowing customers to easily purchase and install their downloads in just a few short minutes. For customers who are unsure if their phone supports downloads, be sure to visit Cricket’s website and view the list of compatible phones, which include Kyocera, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung models.
Other Download Sources
Of course cell phone users aren’t limited to their service providers for the latest in ringtones. Music-based websites like MTV, iTunes and Vh1 are cashing in on consumers urges to personalize their mobile phones by offering excusive ringtones, graphics and games. Vh1, for instance, offers ringtones from many of its popular shows, content that is not available through any of the major wireless carriers. In order to download content from VH1, you must be a T-Mobile, Cingular, or AT&T subscriber and have a phone that can play either polyphonic tones or digitones, depending on what you are purchasing. The good news for consumers is that they will not be charged for purchasing an application or ringtone that isn’t compatible with their phone. Ringtones from VH1 are $1.99 each.
MTV and iTunes offer the latest in ringtone content by updating their websites daily. To date, Verizon, Cingular, T-Mobile and Sprint customers can purchase from the MTV mobile store. iTunes, the behemoth of all online music providers, offers an extensive library of ringtones that are only compatible with Apple’s iPhone, serviced through AT&T Wireless. These ringtones are $0.99 each. iTunes allows you to create ringtones from songs in the iTunes Store or your music library. Newer arrivals to the ringtone scene include Jamster.com, Mixxer.com, Thumbplay.com, and Flycell.com, all of which provide membership/subscription plans and a huge variety of genres from which to pick. Users of all major carriers can easily be accommodated by one of these websites.
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Hot on the heels of the Nokia 6600 comes the Nokia 6260 Slider. This is a very up-market little phone with similar features to the Nokia N95.
The Nokia look is very evident – typical black, trimmed with silver and blue highlighted number pad – a no-nonsense easy to use handset.
The 6260 Slide will work on both 2G and 3G networks – on the standard four GSM 850/ 900 / 1800 / 1900 and on HSDPA 900 / 1900 and 2100.
Released on April 2009, this compact handset weighs in at a mere 114g, and measures a shade under 100 x 47 x 16mm. With a TFT 16M colour display and downloadable themes, it is sure to please the pickiest when it comes to front screen appearance. The screen is bright enough to be read in daylight.
The phonebook will store up to 2000 contacts, including photocall, and will record up to 30 dialled, 30 received and 30 missed calls, thanks to it’s adequate 200MB internal memory. Additional memory can be slotted in – up to 8GB in total, by using the MicroSD (TransFlash) card slot.
Data handling takes place by means of class 10 GPRS (32-48 KBPS) and Edge at 236.8 kbps, and the phone supports HSCSD. On 3G HSDPA, it works at 10.2 Mbps, and HSUPA at 2 Mbps. WLAN is by means of WiFi 802.11 b/g. It also has Bluetooth and USB, although not an infra-red port.
Nokia’s open source browser is installed in the phone – the Series 40 6th Edition – giving full look and feel web browsing. Unlike the Apple 3GS, the Nokia 6260 Slide comes complete with Flash Lite 3.0, allowing you to be deluged by mobile ads and other flash web content. Location based applications can also be developed, thanks to the Java-based location application programming interface.
The Nokia 6260 Slide has as its primary camera a 5 megapixel unit, photos are a max of 2592 x 1944 pixels, and with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, and LED flash, quality pictures are (almost) assured. The video works as VGA at 15fps and there is a secondary VGA videocall camera.
Other features including SMS, MMS and Email messaging services, a WAP 2.0/xHTML and HTML browser, FM Radio with RDS and (MIDP 2.0) Java Games with the facility to download more.
The Nokia 6260 Slide supports GPS alongside Nokia Maps, possibly even rendering your TomTom obsolete, and ensuring you will be able to get wherever you are going.
For the music lover – there is MP3, M4A, AAC, eAAC and the handset has WMA player installed.
Voice command has arrived, which includes voice dial – a most useful feature for drivers who like to talk at the same time and still be legal.
For the texting fan – this phone also has T9. Irritating when you first encounter it, T9 is a boon for speeding up texting once you know how the phone thinks and are conversant with the in house dictionary or have educated it to your level.
Nokia always manages to produce a phone for reasonable cost with fine features which also lasts well on the battery supplied. This handset is no different. The Nokia 6260 Slide has a standard 950mAp (BL-5F) Li-Ion battery.
Talk time on 2G is up to 6 hours, on 3G this comes down to 3 hours. Standby time is fairly impressive at 400h on 2G and 288 when using 3G. Music play back time is max 20 hours – more than enough for most people.
We felt that more themes and downloadable programmes could have been made available for use with this phone, but Nokia provides the browser as open source – perhaps 3rd party development of additional apps and themes will not take long.
We did like the speed of the software used by this handset, it is a very practical and economically priced phone with all the features we felt we required. The graphics are superb, as is the camera.

Suddenly, the mobile phone industry is inundated with operating systems: iPhone OS, Google Android, Palm WebOS, Symbian, Maemo, BlackBerry, Samsung Bada, and of course, Windows Mobile. Microsoft recently released WinMob 6.5, in a sign that the company has not yet called it quits and is willing to fight it out. There are still lots of phones that run on Windows Mobile, including the upcoming HTC HD2. So here are three applications that no WinMob phone should be without: 1.XnView Pocket – With mobile phones doubling up as cameras, a smart and robust image viewing and editing tool is essential on all handsets. Once you install XnView Pocket, you won’t require anything else. Along with five super-cool photo-viewing modes (you simply have to try out the ‘FilmStrip’ mode), the app lets users convert images to different formats such as JPEG, GIF, BMP and PNG (TIFF and RAW files are read-only). If it’s cropping that you desire, simply use your stylus to draw out a box and cut the image to size. Resizing, rotating, sharpening, smoothing, noise reduction, brightness, contrast, gamma, RGB controls – XnView just does it all! 2.Dashwire – What would you do if your phone were to suddenly conk off and wipe out all your data? The problem with backup tools is that most users don’t do it often enough, and with the amount of data we receive everyday on our Mobile Phones, we’re bound to miss out something important. Dashwire is a wonderful app that syncs up your phone to your very own Dashwire portal on the Web, and lets you access common phone features through it too. Pictures, music, calendar, SMS, contacts, email, Twitter and lots of other features are easily supported, making sure your data is always safe. 3.T9 PhonePad – Hate the Qwerty keyboard on your WinMob phone? Wish you could just go back to the comfortable 10-digit number pad and your trusty T9 dictionary? Just install T9 PhonePad and start tapping away. Goodbye, annoying stylus! For more detail on Free Download Software log on to http://www.thinkdigit.com/

There are many apps (applications) that you can download through the “market” icon of your G1 Android Phone. This list can help guide you as to which apps you might want to download.

1. Quickpedia – This is a free app that lets the user browse Wikipedia on the Google Android phone. Viewing Wikipedia pages with this app is easier than attempting to view them without it, as the app optimizes the pages for the Android phone?s small display screen. You can also use the Quickpedia to search for articles that might interest you. With its easy-to-navigate user interface, browsing Wikipedia becomes a breeze. The app also lets the user save the text of the Wiki to the phone’s SD(secure digital card, or memory card). You can use its “nearby” feature to find Wikipedia articles about places near you. You can also find out what other Quickpedia users are looking for, by using the “popular” tab.

2. Ringdroid – This was one of the first batch of apps to be released for the T-Mobile G1 phone. It lets users create ring tones from songs they already have on their phones. A user can also choose to record his own sounds. Although it is one of the older, first-generation apps, it still is one of the most downloaded. It works like a simplified Audacity. There?s a time line on the screen, and users can zoom in to place start and end marks on it. Once they are sure of the segment, they can save it, to create a ringtone, a notification, an alarm, or an edited tune. It is very user-friendly, and can turn anyone into a sound technician.

3. Fbook – This is the unofficial Facebook app for the Android phone. Just about everyone I know has a Facebook account. The fact is, if you must choose from all the social networking web sites around, Facebook is probably one of your first choices. Fbook optimizes Facebook?s iPhone website for the Android Phone. It also allows users to upload their photos directly from their phones to their Facebook accounts. Even when the app is closed, users receive notifications when new updates are made by their friends.

These are just three of the Google Android phone apps that have been found to be quite helpful for daily use. There are a lot more apps out there. Maybe you have your own favorites, that aren’t on this list. What are your favorite apps? Let us know about them.