Posted by axxxr
Via: forbes
Research indicates that people do judge mobile users based on their ringtone. Earlier this year, U.K.-based carrier Tesco Mobile surveyed 1,000 customers and discovered that 21% of them thought having a standard ringtone was "uncool."
-- The survey also concluded that people who use their own recorded voice as a ringtone are self-obsessed, and that users who constantly change their rings might be flighty and unreliable.
-- If your phone plays a classic rock tune, you're showing your age, but you get points for figuring out how to change the ringer, Gramps.
-- If your phone is still playing "Jingle Bell Rock" in July, you're not going to impress people with your productivity.
-- If your ringtone is a current hip-hop or R&B hit, you're young at heart, but you're not particularly original. Hip-hop ringtones accounted for more than half of the $300 million U.S. market in 2004.
-- If your phone plays the sound of an old mechanical phone bell, you're not as funny as you think you are.
-- If your phone plays the theme song to a television show, you're not going to impress anyone with your intellectual acumen. Perhaps a Mozart or Beethoven ringer would do some damage control.
-- If your phone never leaves vibrate or silent mode, you may be the kind of important person who can't afford to waste time answering a phone call right now. Or maybe you just think you're that important. However, you may also be considerate and respectful, the kind of person we'd like sitting behind us in a movie theater.
Unfortunately, we tend to get saddled with seatmates whose phones play the popular "Crazy Frog," the clucking chicken, or any number of other annoying animal noises. If you're one of these folks, you may be a sociopath."
Posted by amd1129
Wat does cancan indicate?
Posted by Lynx69
Mines a police siren
Posted by batesie
mine is none of the above
Posted by Jim
Guess I'm unique then
Posted by tranquil
I wonder what categry my ring tone falls in too?
Posted by mrao
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@tranquil... are you, by any chance, using one of those crazy frog ones
Posted by Lynx69
lol, no i think his is http://premium1.uploadit.org/tranquil///nokiatuneblow.wav
Posted by Rookwise
Hmm. I got's Gorillaz new track on mine :-)
Posted by tranquil
@Lynx
You are quite right
(It's in my signature for anyone to download)
Posted by whizkidd
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Posted by batesie
Rookwise ditto, for a little while
Posted by masseur
well I'm the strong, silent and apparantly important (and probably handsome) type
Posted by tranquil
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Welcome to the club
Off course you come far behind me in all categories.
Posted by Glenny
i am a hard rocker with NOFX (no effects) - franco un-american.mp3
Posted by fatreg
i dont do ringtones!
vib all the way
fatreg
Posted by knight4led
so where does someone who has different ringtones for different people fit in to the whole list? I have like 8 different rings set up depending on who calls. For example the whistling thing from Kill Bill, Everlong by Foo Fighters, Mario World theme...
Posted by OluYom
I don't seem to fit in on the analysts' charts in any way. Its such a crazy, wicked, fast-paced rat race in this world, that I chose a ringtone that simply reminds me of God's goodness.
@tranquil: I downloaded that ringtone of yours, heard it once, and told myself if my phone rings that way in public I'd die of embarrassment!
Posted by uthetha ithuvi
I use the 'Spotted Hyenas' truetone, which I got off the 'Orange World' site.
Not too sure what it says about me...warped sense of humour?
Got some um...unusual looks when my phone rang while browsing around Ikea...
Posted by BobaFett
i use "old fone" ringtone in my z10...
Posted by solidsingh
i use a busta rhymes tune
Posted by twerg
I use a nice smooth trance tune. There seemed to be no categorie for dance music.
Posted by amd1129
In which category cancan falls:-D
Posted by RicK700i
I have pop ringtones what does that mean?
Posted by Qoastro
On my T630 I have "Rising fighting spirit" from Naruto.'
And on my Z1010 I have "Fly High" by Ayumi Hamasaki.
Posted by DeLa
I have the theme of American Beauty (mp3). Every now and then someone recognises it and then I know who to talk to.
Posted by methylated_spirit
Pinky and the brain theme tune...Am i a genius or insane?
Posted by DJcreamz
my ring tone says
"im gay and im looking at your arse arse mate"
Posted by carkitter
I have different ringtones for different callers - such as Toxic (Brittany Spears) for my Ex-Wife.
For all other unassigned callers my K700i plays Walkie Talkie Man by Steriogram.
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how does that go? I have 
"bing bong bing you have a call". Does that mean I like humanoids? My friend in work had a blood curdling scream. Should I steer clear of him?
Posted by Dicky Snapples
Slayer-Raining Blood usually.
and the daleks "EXTERMINATE!!" as my message alert
Posted by bungle123
I have an extract taken from layer cake as my ringer "ur born... you take ***.... climb a little higher......."
as for message tone, tyres from spaced (series one) british comedy written by simon peg of sean of dead... talking about being unable to control his mood swings...
both go down a storm with the elderly on route ta work......
bungle
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Posted by JK
i have im so lonely-akorn.... does that mean im lonely????
i should get the bkorn version... im so horney!!!