I’m relatively new to the whole multi-function cell phone technology. Up until a week ago, we had just regular old cell phones, no fancy features and horrible connectivity and service. Well, we are in the 21st century now (my wife and I), so we have brand new communication equipment. I got a Blackberry 8700c with unlimited text messaging and unlimited data.
I must say, AT&T is quite a step up from T-Mobile as far as connectivity goes. I never thought I would be happy with the connectivity and speeds offered. I am quite happily surprised. I even have a data connection in my office at work. I couldn’t even think about a signal with T-Mobile. I have it retrieving all of my email, accessing my Google Mail accounts (including my GAD accounts). Overall, it has been a pleasant experience… I’m still trying to fully leverage everything that this device brings to the table, but if nothing else, it has been a worthwhile experience.
I must say though that it would be nice to have a really cool ring tone. I’m just using the basic “telephone” ringtone, which I suppose works fine. Being a music buff and having over 4000 CDs in my collection, it would be cool to have an MP3-style ringtone.
I, however, am far too cheap to pay $2.49 (or anything for that matter) for a cool ringtone. Heck, I own most of the music and ringtones that I would think are cool. So, what to do? Well, try to make your own ringtone.
It gave me something to do during lunch today. I have Audacity portable on my Flash Voyager, so I picked one of my cool Satriani MP3s to try and make my own. I cut a 15 second slice out and saved it as an MP3 file and then mailed it to myself (so it would be on my Blackberry). The Blackberry was quite nice about it and I was able to select the attachment and listen – well, crappiness ensued. The sound quality sucked. I didn’t expect anything extravagant; however, a decent sound would have been good. No luck. Back to using the “classic telephone” ringtone.
It was a pleasant diversion and it was nice knowing that I could do all this within a 30 minute window, but I’m off to more important things.
