Caller ring tunes are soaring off the charts

(NC)-What's the hottest thing in cell phones these days?

Hint: Have you changed your tune lately - your caller ring tune, that is.

That's right, caller ring tunes are proving to be a major hit among younger mobile phone users who, according to recent research by Merlin Mobile Media study, are changing their ring tunes every five days by downloading new ones as fast as they become available.

Caller ring tunes basically let you customize the ringing sound that callers hear while waiting for you to answer the phone.

From more recent chart toppers like Salt Shaker by the Ying Yang Twins to golden oldies like Steppenwolf's Born to be Wild - when it comes to choosing caller ring tunes, mobile phone users can't seem to get enough of their favorite music to entertain callers.

And cell phone providers such as Bell Mobility are meeting the demand by continuing to expand the lineup of ring tune offerings with hit music as well as TV tunes, celebrity greetings, sound effects and movie clips to keep callers amused while waiting for you to answer. You can set different tunes to play for different callers or assign callers to a Music Box that plays a different tune from an album for each call. Either way, an entertaining tune is now just a call away.

- News Canada

Sidebar: It's getting so that I don't know whether to tell someone to answer the phone or turn down the radio... ;-)

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