Techdirt Poll:

What kind of ringtone do you have?

Personalized & annoying to all / 10% / 56 votes

Personalized and funny to me (but annoying to others) / 13% / 71 votes

Personalized and funny to everybody (yeah, right) / 10% / 55 votes

Standard because I am lazy/indifferent / 29% / 158 votes

Standard because I would never have a personalized ringtone / 21% / 118 votes

Standard yet still annoying (as in the Hooked on Classics versions of ringtones). / 6% / 31 votes

Ringtone? Whazzat? / 12% / 64 votes

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  1. May 31st, 2002 @ 11:13am

    a-ha!

    by ScooterBoy

    everyone loves my a-ha ringtone.

  2. Jun 4th, 2002 @ 6:02am

    My ring tone

    by acb

    ...is the organ grinder's melody from _The City of Lost Children_, actually, or my own version thereof.

  3. Jun 24th, 2002 @ 5:26am

    the perpetual frustration of ringtones

    by phoenix

    My ringtone is The Police's King of Pain but I have yet to meet a Police fan who would actually recognize it :-( The way a song gets butchered when transformed into a single sinus wave of constant volume is usually very tragic. It is similar with recorded ringtones - those are destroyed by the limited capabilities of the phone's speaker. Polyphonous ringtones seem like worth trying out but you surely need a computer to edit one...

  4. Jun 24th, 2002 @ 10:42am

    Funky Town..

    by Batmanuel

    I'm still using the standard ring tone because I can't get my phone to play "Funky Town" yet.

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