Mono Ringtones
If you owned a cell phone back in the early days, you can clearly remember the simple ringtones that you probably thought were pretty cool then. They were mono ringtones—the ones that could only play very simple tones one at a time. If you were lucky, your cell phone came with a few of these catchy mono ringtones, (remember the Canon in D monophonic ringtone?) and you used them and you never complained. Well, those days are over and your cell phone has evolved. It is time you evolve, too.

If you are still stuck in the old days, you might actually like mono ringtones. You can certainly still download free ringtones that are monophonic on many ringtone sites. You can also download monophonic ringtone makers that will allow you to create your own simple tunes for your ringtones. Mono ringtones are still fun and if you don’t want to spend a lot of money downloading expensive songs and movies for your ringtones, then you should go ahead and use mono ringtones.

Now if you want to jump into the full cell phone technology, then it is time to leave those mono ringtones behind and explore your other options. Now you can download polyphonic ringtones and full song ringtones, also sometimes called real tunes. Polyphonic and mono ringtones are different, yet similar. A polyphonic ringtone is similar because it can only play certain tunes that are copied from real songs. However, you can get closer to the real song when you go with polyphonic ringtones versus mono ringtones. Instead of being able to play only one note at a time, these polyphonic ringtones can actually play up to 40 notes at a time. These sound better than mono ringtones, but are still not the quality of real tunes.

When you kiss mono ringtones goodbye and you want something better than a polyphonic ringtone, then you can consider real music ringtones. These are just as the name suggests—actual ringtones that are real music downloads. They sound like the real song because it is the real song. Older phones cannot play these, but all newer phones are capable of playing real music ringtones.