College campuses, restaurants and hangouts are buzzing with musical ringtones.
Almost all recent models of cellphones are compatible to download ringtones, says Gautam Gotwal, manager, Orbit Communication Centre, opposite Basant Park. He adds, All the latest models of Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens, Motorola and Samsung are ringtone compatible. But the Nokia models are the best.
Adds Sukhpreet Singh of Amar Communications at Amar Mahal, All the latest cellphones allow you to download ringtones and forward them too. Most youngsters prefer to forward the latest tunes and are the ones who change their ringtones very often. They are up-to-date with the latest tunes which are available.
According to Gotwal, it is not only the trendy ringtones that are popular. Many people have devotional ringtones as well. Gotwal says that the most popular ringtones are Chalte Chalte and Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon.
chembur@mid-day.com Sunny Bisla Ashwin Rao
How to download a tone
Go to Write Messages and type in RT for Nokia and Samsung handsets and ORT for others
Specify the code of the tone you want to download
SMS it to the ringtone provider number
After you have downloaded, play to hear if you have received the right tone and save it
To activate this tune, go to profile / tones and click on personalise
In the ringing tone type select the tune
Resident of Sasal Ganga building, opposite Collector's Colony
Cellphone service Reliance
How often do you change your ringtone? Every three to four days
Favourite sites Phoneytunes and Yahoo. In case of Reliance phone, you can go to R-World and download from Reliance online
Favourite ringtone English - Sweet Child of Mine; Hindi - Bindu remix
Jagdish Prem Talreja
Resident of Mahul Road
Cellphone service Airtel
How often do you change your ringtone? Every week
Favourite sites I usually receive ringtones from friends. If at all I want to download, I take them from Phoneytunes, Yahoo and the Airtel website. It is good to change your ringtone often, as it's nice to have a different and unique tone
Favourite ringtone: English - Sweet Child of Mine; Hindi - Awara
Resident of 16th Road
Cellphone service Orange
How often do you change ringtone? Every week
Favourite sites Yahoo and Orange. It is very easy to download from these sites and they have a very good range of ringtones as well
Favourite ringtone Right now it is Tauba from Chalte Chalte
Sameer Gulatkar
Resident of 21st Road
Cellphone service BPL
How often do you change ringtone? Every 15 days
Favourite sites BPL, Yahoo and Indiatimes. I usually download from the BPL site and only if I find a very good tune do I download it.
All remixed songs dont sound good and very soon almost everybody around has the same ringtone. So I prefer to wait to download some good and different tunes, which are not common
Favourite ringtone English - Sweet Child of Mine; Hindi - Neele Neele Ambar
