A ringtone, which became part of the modern mobile music world, is the sound or melody made by a telephone to indicate mobile owner an incoming call or alert.

With a different ringtone, you can easily identify your own mobile. You can also use vibrating alert instant of ringtone while there is no need of ringtone or an environment is noisy.

There are many types of ringtones these are monophonic, polyphonic or musical ringtones. Monophonic ringtones are short tunes made by nodes. Quite the opposite, polyphonic ringtones have several tones that can be played in chorus using sound instruments such as guitar, drums, piano etc. On the other hand, musical ringtones, also known as voice tones, real tones, sing tones or true tones, contain actual portion of music with all lyrics or the complete song. Music ringtones now plays a major role in the music industry worldwide. Today, mobile owners use text message alerts called voice tones for their incoming calls.

By the end of 1990s, mobile producer like Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens announced a new feature of combining a ringtone directly on a mobile or even transfer a programmable ringtone from computer to phone. Yet some mobiles not allow programmable ringtones.

Some companies offer mobile phones with audio-mixers, so you can make your own polyphonic ringtone by mixing rhythms and sounds. In 2002 Motorola introduced this feature.

"Theme" ringtone are introduced by companies like Microsoft and Motorola. For example select a theme named "jungle", and you get a collection of a tropical ringtone with the pictures of giraffe and rainforest on the screen.

You can easily download ring tones that are free from sites like Napster or Jamster.

Some mobile phones had composers which permit users to compose a new tone alert by typing a sequence of keys. However, there are some copyright issues Every recreation of music must pay a copyright fee to the owner.

If you are more creative, you can create a new ringtone or that are available on the Internet by using ringtone composer and ringtone converter.