Cellphone advice..help?

[~Erin~]

I am getting a new cellphone and I was considering these two cellphones: The LG Chocolate Flip Phone 8600 and the KRZR I know this may sound shallow but the only real thing I'm looking for in a new cell phone is the ability to be able to have your own personal ringtone. Basically, to be able to personalize my cellphone as much as possible, background and being able to have different ringtones for different contacts and such. But the big thing is like to have ( for example an band that you would know it would be hard to buy or download a pre existing ringtone.)SO you would use a song from your comp and put it onto your phone and be able to use it as a ringtone. I was able to make ringtone but I have it as a mp3 in my itunes currently. The thing is when I went to telus the sales person said that some phones have this feature blocked like to upload a song from your computer and put it onto your phone and put it as your ringtone. THe Flip apparently can't do this but she didn't say anything about the KRZR but I believe you can't do this either. I've heard you have to hack your phone?? but as some people have no problem being able to set their ringtone to any music they make or use from their comp( I'm assuming the comp part.) So my question comes in A: if you have any of these phones are you able to do this. And B: what phone do you have and how are you able to get your 'music' as ringtone? ugh, I hope this makes sense I am really new with ringtones and downloading onto phones and such. EDIT: I also heard because it is in a mp3 format I need to convert it to MIDI? or something.. I really have no idea what that means. but does that involve hacking the phone. Apparently people have tried but the phone recognizes what your doing and still are able to block it,

[werwun]

I just adapt to new situations and appreciate what I'm given without trying to fix everything Had to find that one out the hard way....many times...and when did this become about me I'm sorry, you had a cell-phone question? Something about hanging on to the past?

[~Erin~]

what are you saying none of the phone have this feauture anymore? I Know they are old phones. And I'm not trying to change everything. It is this one feature I am looking at.

[ninja9578]

Most phones should be able to play an MP3 as a ringtone. I think the razor would be fine.

[werwun]

what are you saying none of the phone have this feauture anymore? I Know they are old phones. And I'm not trying to change everything. It is this one feature I am looking at. My bad, I just completely missed the point of the question I'll leave now

[Amethyst Star]

Most phones should be able to play an MP3 as a ringtone. I think the razor would be fine. I've had experience with RAZR V3m phones and they've worked wonderfully. If you're looking to upload music on your phone, usually you can use the .mp3 format without a problem. I don't know what the LG software is like, but Motorola has a program called "Motorola Phone Tools" that you can use to manage your address book, calendar, pictures, music, etc. Version 4.0 (relatively recent) is available for about $10. http://www.sfplanet.com/product/SKN6...term=SKN6371CD The RAZR should also have a slot for a memory card if you're looking to put more music on there than it's internal memory is designed to hold. But I'd ask a sales representative to see whether or not the software with the phone will allow you to transfer music files or whether or not the feature is disabled. If they don't know, ask them to get in touch with someone who does know. Any customer service-minded person would do this for you.

[ThePhobiaViewed]

I have a Samsung U740 (now released as the Alias I believe) which is verizon. The thing with verizon is that they try to make you buy their ringtones instead of being able to use your own. What you can do is make an mp3 that you want for your ringtone and then you simply email that file to your phone (for verizon its (your 10 digit cellphone number)@vzwpix.com . The problem with this is that verizon used to change your mp3 to a crappy format so it would be quiet and sound bad on your phone. As of a few weeks ago I tried again and everything I sent went through as mp3s and sound great as ringtones. Using this method the ringtones come into your phone as picture messages so you will need texting or be willing to pay the price per text. My phone allows for a personal ringtone to be set for each contact, and I would imagine most phones do (my brother has a cheaper version of the KRZR and his can do it I think). Also if you are having trouble making an mp3 of the part of the song you want you can download the program Audacity which is a great free audio editing program you can find online if you google it. Those phones you are looking at are verizon right?