Jan 23
There are plenty of situations that warrant using your phone’s vibrate-only mode. But that buzzing in your pocket won’t tell you if someone important is calling. Luckily, this is easy to fix.
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Jul 30
LG isn’t shy about its love of classical music, having once struck a deal with Ennio Morricone to put his tunes on the company’s phones. However, we’ll still admit to being caught off-guard by its next collaboration: when the G2 is officially revealed on August 7th, it will include the dulcet sounds of the Vienna Boys’ Choir. The Android flagship will ship with nine ringtones and five alerts sung by the youth group, along with four musical chimes. Beautiful devices need beautiful music, LG argues. Whether or not that’s really true, you won’t have to wait long to hear the end result. LG will post free music on the G2’s teaser site on August 1st, including a choral version of its standard ringtone.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, LG
Feb 10
There are two worlds of ringtones. There are the “this is my favorite song” ringtones and there are the “holy shit why didn’t I think of that” ringtones. Music, pretty much by default, falls in the first category. The second category, that’s harder to define. More »
Dec 02
Nokia Hired An Entire Orchestra Just To Put Out a Couple of Measly Ringtones
Posted in: Today's Chili
Nokia was looking at some of its numbers when somebody noticed that the popularity of classical music ringtones was pretty high, second most popular. So did they shrug this inane newes off with amused sighs and feeble “that’s neat”s? Not at all. They went out and hired a whole 55-piece orchestra to whip up 25 more. Overkill maybe? More »
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