Mobile Phone Accessories Review

Equipped with the essentials—cell phone and Bluetooth headset—we wonder what else we need to number among the cool girls in the telecom world.

Ringtones, wallpaper, and games, of course.  Without cool ringtones properly set for each caller’s personality and taste, we’re just plain-Janes with phones in our purses.  But we must recognize we venture into vaguely dangerous territory when we go in search of cool ringtones: Free ringtones, for example, are illegal; and some providers try to seduce us with cool sounds, tricking us into way more than we bargained for.

At first, Dada Mobile seems really attractive, because the service appears to offer the most ringtones and other goodies for the lowest price.  We quickly discover, however, in ringtones as in most other important stuff, you get what you pay for: for us poor T-Mobile customers, we get only eight “premium” rings per month, and we learn to our chagrin that “premium” is a polite word for “real song.”  All the other tones are real-song knock-offs that sound a lot like hamsters singing karaoke.

At last, our search takes us to Jamster, which TOPTENReviews.com proclaims, “Jamster ringtone service develops, markets and distributes the latest digital content and applications for the newest generation of high tech mobile handsets, and is “TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award” ringtone download service.”  The TOPTENReviews editors rave, “Jamster can turn your cell phone into a mobile entertainment and communications hub with services that give you access to shopping, downloads, graphics, ringtones, multimedia messaging service (MMS) greeting cards and more.”

Studying the site, we immediately recognize how exceptionally user-friendly it is: all the top features are right there on the front page, displayed according to their popularity.  The front page links not only to ring tones but also to wallpapers, games, videos, and video-tones.  We also immediately see that Jamster has garnered a nomination for a 2008 Mobile Entertainment Award. 

Clearly, both newbs and the technorati can appreciate the site.

Digging deeper, we learn, “Jamba is wholly owned by Fox Entertainment Group Inc., a subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A) and headquartered in Beverly Hills, Calif., and Berlin, Germany. In the U.S. and some other countries, Jamba operates under the brand Jamster.“  In other words, we’re not dealing with just another posse of Internet pirates.  The company shows-off some impressive statistics, too: They „reach one billion consumers around the globe in 35 countries and 25 languages across five continents. Jamster supports more than 2,800 handsets and provides billing connectivity to more than 125 operators worldwide.“

Already leading the league, Fox reorganized Jamba and Jamster in October, 2008, bringing in a team of high-powered executives and marketers charged with maintaining the brand’s leadership in the industry.  Fox emphasized, “The new structure aims to bring further clarity to Fox’s strategic approach to the mobile content industry by underscoring its global leadership in the areas of distributing, licensing, and producing mobile content.”

Clearly, these guys mean business.

We suddenly realize that the plain-Janes may have ringtones and wallpapers, but we have the power to turn our phones into “mobile entertainment hubs.”   Hubs in hand, surely we will dominate the cool girls.

One of the reasons why personalized cell phone ringtones are enjoying such an immense popularity all over the world is because of the ability to actually bring your personality to your cell phone. With personalized cell phone ringtones you can immediately show to other people what kind of person you are the moment they hear your cell phone ringtone. If you are the goofy type of person then you’d have one of those funny songs, a hilarious joke or a funny sound effect as your ring tone. If you are the romantic type then love songs would usually be your ringtone. The adventurous people may select rock or techno music as their ringtones. Of course, anime fans will definitely get anime theme songs as their ringtones. Read the rest of this entry »

Cell phone ringtones are like hot cakes for the youngsters, the market is huge, estimated world wide sales of $ 2.5 Billion per year. The cost of a cell phone ringtone is ranging from $0.99 – $2.99. Most singers and performers provide rights for their melodies to be converted to ringtones versions. Survey shows that about 26% of cell phone owners downloaded at least once a ringtone. Many people downloading more than one as you can customize and set the phone to play different ringtones per specific caller.
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One of the most popular pastimes and hobbies of a big majority of cell phone owners are customizing their phones. Personalizing a cell phone has grown into a multi-billion dollar business worldwide. People are willing to pay for themes, wallpapers, casings, and various types of ringtones in order to make their mobile phones stand out from the rest. They even buy various accessories, charms and nifty little holders to complete their phone’s look.

What compels people to spend money just to customize a piece of electronic equipment?
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Monophonic ringtones, polyphonic ringtones and real tones are different types of cell tones that are used by cell phone users to add an element of fun as well as certain traits of their individuality to their handsets. Different types of downloadable mobile content especially ringtones have made their place in the hearts and minds of a multitude of young cell phone users, across different parts of the globe.

What attracts these young minds to cell phone ringtones? And what motivates them to spend a substantial amount of their pocket money on downloadable ringtones? An analysis of these questions leads us to some startling conclusions.
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