My wife is an IT professional, and because of this, she gets to play with all the cool toys before most people do, and she has a working knowledge of them that I could never have. She had a Blackberry long before I did, and she can make that thing do basically everything except make dinner. I have a Blackberry that I use to keep my calendar straight, get important e-mails sent directly to me, but the one thing I haven't done with it is customize the ring tones.
When my phone rings, it plays a basic "ringing" sound. When I get an Instant Blackberry Message, it plays an almost chirping sound. When I get an e-mail to either of my two e-mail accounts I have programmed into it, I get what sounds like a short "doorbell" sound.
Depending on how people contact my wife, her phone plays so many different songs it sounds like it could be a jukebox. She gets a message (don't ask me what kind - I can't even REMOTELY keep track), and I hear Pink singing from "Glitter in the Air" - 'THERE YOU ARE...SITTING IN THE GARDEN...CLUTCHING MY COFFEE.....YOU CALL ME SUGARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR....." Another type of message, and Adele is singing Bob Dylan's "To Make You Feel My Love", she has the alarm set to go off to wake us up, and there's LL Cool J telling me "I Need Love". She used to have it so when she received an E-mail, it would be Bugs Bunny saying "What's this? A letter...for MEEEE". If I actually call her (because of all things to do with her phone, actually talking on it is her least favorite thing to do), she has some song on it that says "If you got worries, then you're like me, don't worry know....I won't hurt you"
Mine goes "ding", "tweet", "chirp".
I guess your ringtones say a lot about what type of person you are. I believe mine say that I have no technological skill whatsoever and that I am as boring as watching paint dry.
I was hosting a comedy show the other night when I heard someone in the crowd receive a call - and the only reason I knew this (by the way, if you're at a performance or a movie, put the damn phone on VIBRATE please!) is because his phone, I kid you not, started playing "GIVE ME BACK THAT FILET-O-FISH! GIVE ME THAT FISH!"
So I pose this question to you all - what kind of ringtone do you have - do you have multiples for different people? What does it say about you? Comments as always are welcome on the blog here, or on Facebook. I am anxious to see what ringtones people have. Maybe, if I can figure out how, I'll switch. Oops...gotta go - I have an e-mail....either that, or there's someone at my front door!
I have multiple ringtones and sounds on my phone. When my hubby calls, it's "you make my dreams come true" by Hall and Oates... When dad calls it's the song we danced to at my wedding, when mom calls, it's stewie
ReplyDeletefrom "family guy" calling "mom". I also have other ringtones for when other specific friends call and a song for the callers I don't talk to regularly.
My text message sound is a bike horn (or clown car), my email
"dings", and my alarm is a quacking duck or bell toll depending on the type
of alarm.
Usually the ringtones are significant to the person calling- my 3 best girlfriends all have ringtones based on some significant time
or activity where we heard that song and it reminds me of them (one is a Jonas brothers song, one is a song by Muse, and another is from High School Musical--- I'm not saying there is maturity involved in song choices, just special signiicance). One final ringtone would be my sister's. I chose "send me on my way" by Rusted Root because it was in Matilda, which is one of Toni's favorite movies and I had to replace her copy after I lost it years ago while babysitting.
You asked, and so I told- and this was all written from my cellphone :)