Ringtones and Wallpapers

So what can you do to customise your mobile phone? For a start you can change the standard boring ringtone that comes with the phone to a tune that you actually like. This can be a clip from your favourite song or an excerpt from a film. It can be the chant from your favourite football team or something as way out as a novelty tone, the choice is yours.

The first thing to understand is that there are different ringtone formats available to suit your phones capabilities. The most basic ringtone is the keypress type, which can be made using your phones own built in application (if it has one). These types of tones are known as monophonic ringtones and have basic bleep sounds.

To get really good sounding ringtones your phone needs to be capable of playing polyphonic ringtones. These are comparatively rich sounds being made up of multiple instruments and give a good representation of any music theme.

The best sounding ringtones are without doubt true tones. These are of hi-fi quality and give a tremendous sound, highly recommended if your phone supports this format.

In order to get a ring tone on your phone you have some choices; either have the ringtone sent to your phone or get a cable and software and download it from your computer to your phone.

If you want to download ready prepared ringtones then www.webshaker.co.uk has subscription free ringtones that are available for many countries around the world. While if you're in the UK or Australia and you want true tones you might want to try out www.funtonz.co.uk

You can also make your own ringtone online and then have it sent to your phone.

Other options available that allow you to customise your mobile phone include colour wallpapers, screen savers, operator logos and picture messages. As with ringtones you can get them sent to your phone or use a cable to download them to your phone. If you would like an integrated mobile phone theme for your phone they are available too. This means your screensaver, wallpaper and menu all have the same look and feel as each other, which looks very slick.

Another popular option that extends the usability of your handset is to download a phone game. Some of these games are really impressive, with vivid colours and splendid sounds. You need to make sure that your device supports Java phone games before downloading.