Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Microsoft is a company known for its shortcomings. I could spend the entire day and few thousand lines of pixels here going over just some of them, but one particular one I’ll touch on is it’s lack of ringtone management on Windows Mobile. With it’s lackluster ability to associate custom rings to a call, I’ve become very frustrated with both my XV6700 and Motorola Q. Thankfully with the latest release of Window Mobile 5, Microsoft finally added ringtones to each contact; however, there is no easy and quick way to add a custom ring to a slew of friends or groups. With a few ringtone managers available to aid in this failing, none really have made the management in the ringtone manager easy with a small footprint. Is Electric Pocket’s Ringo that manager?

Ringo has been a popular fixture on PalmOS Treos including the new 700p. The 700w has also been equipped with this easy to use ringtone manager that comes with 50 MP3 ringtones for immediate use. You will be able to use any MP3 or WMA file for a specific ring for a certain somebody or somebodies as well as being able to assign the two file formats to SMS delivery alerts for that important person.

“Smartphones are truly lifestyle devices and Ringo enhances the experience by allowing users to personalize it to match their moods,” said Iain Barclay, Electric Pocket’s Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer. “With access to over 50 free MP3 ringtones built right into the application, we believe Ringo will be enormously popular among Smartphone users.”

Your smartphone is probably in the included bunch of supported phones, Cingular 2125, Motorola Q, T-Mobile Dash and the SPV C600 from Orange, so why don’t you give it a looks-see. For $19.99, it may be a winner.

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One Response to “Ringo Drums a Custom Tune for Your Friend”

  1. steve campbel Says:

    we use http://www.create-ringtone.com to create and send FREE custom ringtones, wallpaper, mp3 and video files to our mobile phones around the world!

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