History of Ringtones
Ringtones evolved to escalate other mobile phone services
in the year 2001 in Finland and today it has come a long way
and is still advancing.
Today, the there is a ringing mobile everywhere you go. It
might be any public place, office, roadsides different mobile
phone ringtones shall draw your attention. It might come to
your mind as from where the idea of ringtone arrived?
Beginning of ringtones
This interesting technology started in the year 2001 when
the first ringtone was sold in Finland. The teenagers of Finland
were in the SMS (Short messaging service) mobile technology
at that time and every teenager had a mobile phone and was
seen typing short text messages and sending them back and
forth. The Finns then tried to escalate their mobile phone
services after building the success of SMS. The ringtone business
was evolved by Vesa Matti Paananen and now it has reached
a position where mobile customers are free to download customized
ringtones by paying a small fee.
The stage of competition
During the same time, cellular services providers in America
started positioning for market share. Nokia, the world’s largest
mobile phone provider found that to know what people want
needs to watch them, observe what they are doing and then
from that arrive at what do they actually want?
At this time, the mobile phone industry reached to about
20 percent of the college students and teenagers market and
that was to be improved. And they found that teenagers especially
girls loved to talk at mobile phones. It was also observed
that these girls used to be very fashion conscious and therefore
they wanted to have customized, sleek and small mobile phones
and this was successfully done by Nokia. Later, some of the
other mobile phone companies targeted these girls who used
to hang out with their friends and provided theme based ringtones
such as" Girls just wanna have fun". At this time,
Japan, a competitor in the electronics market also entered
the race and in the year 2003 The Japanese Copyright Organization
collected a very huge amount of royalties on mobile phone
ringtones.
Mobile phone providers making music
Later, Motorola and MTV started together developing a wireless
menu interface for mobile phones whereby there are direct
links to embedded or over the air downloadable MTV and Motorola
content and experiences. These included wallpapers, screensavers
and other cool ringtones which are original recordings of
the music artists. There are other technologies evolved by
mobile phone providers that enable mobile and online mixing
capabilities to create unique ringtones.
Ringtones were continuously catching up
The recent statistics and research shows that consumers have
jumped upon this technology thereby pushed the industry in
the last four years from nothing to $11 billion by the year
2005 worldwide. People are taking advantages of various mobile
phone options available in the market.
Uniqueness of Ringtones
Innovation produces creativity and mobile ringtones is the
best example for this. Ringtones are now available in all
forms of music based on different themes, culture and mood
of the consumer.
Ringtones have come a long way and the technology is still
advancing providing some interesting and useful applications.
Ringtone Pop Chart (USA Top 45) : 50 Cent, Vanessa Hudgens,
Rihanna, Linkin Park, Ludacris, Alicia Keys, Pussycat Dolls,
Green Day, Chris Brown, Usher, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg,
Pharrell, Petey Pablo, Dr. Dre, Kelis, Pink Floyd, Jay-Z,
Houston, Twista, Kanye West, Eric Clapton, Beyonce, OutKast,
Black Eyed Peas , Eminem, Madonna, Britney Spears, Hurricane
Chris, Sean Kingston, T-Pain, Timbaland, Fergie, Soulja Boy,
Akon, Shop Boyz, Nickelback, Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado,
Sean Paul, Gnarls Barkley, Avril Lavigne, Finger Eleven, Fat
Joe, James Blunt
