We’ve all been sitting in a movie, waiting in a line, or sleeping in church, only to be annoyed by a dumb ringtone. For some reason, random people across all generations think that everyone else wants to hear a Boom Boom Pow or animal sound ringer. Well, we don’t. This is nothing new. There was a time before MP3 ringers when polyphonic ringtones were all the rage. In fact, I can remember back about seven years ago creating my own tone for my Sprint PCS Vision Samsung cell phone out of a N.E.R.D. song. I was the coolest back then, but thankfully for society, I have grown up and moved to a boring, stock BlackBerry ringtone.
Watch the video above and then go switch your ringer to a normal tone. Listen, everyone occisionally forgets to switch to silent or vibrate, but for the love of BlackBerry, at least have a ringer that you wouldn’t be mortified if it went off at a Presidential news conference.
I think it’s hilarious — let people use whatever ringtone they want to use. Or will there need to be a Ringtone Czar?
seriously!!! No one REALLY wants to hear your ringtone. It’s kinda like driving with your music unrealistically loud. Have you ever been driving and some one pulls up next to you with their music and bass blaring, have you ever ONCE been like… that guy’s cool??? Or when some tool peels out and drives really fast, have you ever been watching and thinking, damn I wish I was him?
btw… everyone who voted for Obama, where are you now? I thought he was going to be the savior?
Haha, at least Obama is a good sport about it. Probably because it was a duck tone, which is always funny.
But I do agree with you. Whenever I get a new phone I switch it straight to vibrate…and then figure out all the ringtones later. Though, I still keep it on vibrate most of the time. My ring is always a ‘normal’ phone ring though.
Is that the iPhone duck ringtone?? I like going with xylophone myself. .
Sorry, but i’d much rather be myself than be what people consider “normal” under some pointless social guidelines devised decades ago.
I have series of 8bit nes tones set as my ring tones, different tones based on who is calling me, I see no reason why I should change them just to “fit in”
I found the President to be a great sport about that and even slightly funny.
If he calls me I can make him any ringtone he would like.
My ringtone is the ringtone from the movie crank. My SMS/MMS/Email is the “doink doink” from law and order.
I’m content with those. I have a lot of other goofy ringtones but never use them. I didn’t care for the standard blackberry storm ringtones.
It’s a good thing that July is National Cellphone Courtesy Month! This is an event founded in 2002 by Jacqueline Whitmore in an effort to help rude cellphone users learn proper etiquette. For tips on how to behave while using a cellphone, go to http://etiquetteexpert.blogspot.com.
Frankly, ringtones should just be scrapped entirely. My phone is on vibrate. Yours should be too. Seriously. Not one person has been annoyed by my phone in about 8 years. Why the hell can’t you just put your damn phone on vibrate?!
(I said no one has been annoyed by my phone. I am still, personally, very annoying, even without the phone) :-)
Because not everybody puts their phone somewher ethe can feel it vibrate, and many people use their cellphones as a replacement for their landlines in their house, they aren’t going to be wearing them while in their own home.
I think my ringtone is fine… it’s just the FFIV Victory music. Hell, that’s pretty phone ringy to begin with.