MOTOROLA FREE RINGTONES TECHNICAL INFORMATION

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Monophonic tones: Mobiles that play monophonic tones use only a single tone to play melodies. Sounds monotonic. These can be downloaded using simple SMS services.

Polyphonic tones: Mobiles that play polyphonic tunes can play several notes together giving a more natural performance. You will need an internet enabled phone and a connection plan to download these.

Songtones: A movie soundtrack or pop song rendered on the mobile.

True tones: Also called music tones, voice tones, or real tones. These are replications/sound alikes, or full pieces of real music. For example: a short piece of music soundtrack, a crying baby, roaring lion. Use .mp3, .wav, etc. formats. Require Internet connection on the mobile for downloads.

MP3 tones: Tones in the mp3 file format.

iMelody : A new format developed by irDA and used by companies like Motorola and others.

RTTTL: Ring Tone Text Transfer Language - The standard format developed by Nokia for storing and transferring music on mobiles.

GPRS/WAP: Wireless Application Protocol and General Packet Radio Service. Protocols used by mobile phones to communicate with Internet servers for exchange of information. Some of the tones like songtones/true tones can be downloaded only by GPRS/WAP enabled mobiles.

KeyPress Format: A format of text for keying in the melody on the mobile using its in-build music composer. You can thus get the tune for free.

MIDI: A protocol just like http that allows music keyboards to "talk" to each other. Also refers to the type of music generated by synthesizers. Midi tones can be downloaded on WAP and GPRS enabled phones only.

RingTone Converter: A program that allows one to convert tunes from one format to another. For example, from Nokia to Motorola, or Midi to RTTTL.

Bluetooth: A wireless technology that allows mobile phones to exchange data from other bluetooth enabled devices such as a desktop PC or other mobiles. Allows users to transfer ringtones from their computers to their mobiles, and vice versa.