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[The Headliner]

My phone is always on silent/vibrate. I'm jealous of people who experiment with various ringtones, adding their favorite MP3s and even assigning different sounds to different callers, but I'd just hate it if every text I received on the bus was accompanied by a sound effect that drew everyone's attention my way. I'm too self conscious as it is.

But what about you? Do you use sounds on your mobile/cellphone, and what are they?

[Ethan]

I have different themes set up for different people. Not on my text messages but on my phone calls. For my mother or father I have a tornado warning siren. For my brother I have Human by the killers. For my sister I have Grapevine Fires by Death Cab for Cutie. For my male friends that I drink with from time to time I have Pain by Jimmy Eat World. For my other male friends I have  various songs.


For my female friends I have Superman by Eminem. For women I am interested in dating I have Stuck to You by Hellogoodbye. For girls that I'm only lusting after I have Lollipop by Framing Henly.

I think that wraps it up for the most part.

[El Jackal]

I've always had custom ringtones since I've been able to, but since I got my iPhone I've had various problems with it.. the only way to get ringtones officially is to buy them from itunes which is fair enough, I don't like it but it's gotta be done if I ant one. So I bought one not long after I got it, then it just dissapeared from my iPhone.. it's still on my iTunes account on my computer so any normal person could just transfer it back over, but my iTunes doesn't work properly. I can't transfer anything over to my phone 'cos my computer is a dick. I've looked up the problem on google and apparently it's quite common and there is no fix. So I won't be buying anymore ringtones.

So the rington I actually use is called Strum, it's a little guitar tune that's quite pleasing to the ear but still not what I really want.

[Ethan]

I@ve always had custom ringtones since I've been able to, but since I got my iPhone I've had various problems with it.. the only way to get ringtones officially is to buy them from itunes which is fair enough, I don't like it but it's gotta be done if I ant one. So I bought one not long after I got it, then it just dissapeared from my iPhone.. it's still on my iTunes account on my computer so any normal person could just transfer it back over, but my iTunes doesn't work properly. I can't transfer anything over to my phone 'cos my computer is a dick. I've looked up the problem on google and apparently it's quite common and there is no fix. So I won't be buying anymore ringtones.

So the rington I actually use is called Strum, it's a little guitar tune that's quite pleasing to the ear but still not what I really want.

I do not go through the hassle of paying Apple. I'll buy music but ringtones they can kiss my ass on that. I take a song rip it and format it into the file that I need. Boom ringtone.

[El Jackal]

I do not go through the hassle of paying Apple. I'll buy music but ringtones they can kiss my ass on that. I take a song rip it and format it into the file that I need. Boom ringtone.

I would do exactly the same, but I can't get it onto my iPhone because of the above mentioned error. It's pisses me off majorly.

[Hazzy]

Silent, vibrate.

[El Jackal]

I hate people who have their phone on silent and just vibrate, you can never get hold of them when you want them. My girlfriend always does it and I shout at her for it, 'cos if I want to get hold of her I can't.. then she'll ring me back ten minutes later and it will be too late for whatever I wanted her for. 

[Ethan]

I generally leave mine on silent or vibrate at work, but at home I put it back. Though I agree the thing that bothers me the most is people that do not hear their phones. Sometimes why even bother having a cell if you are not going to pick it up.

[El Jackal]

The only time mine is on silent is when I leave it in a bag at work, or when I go swimming and leave it in a locker.. or when at festivals during the night when I'm sleeping. Just in case somebody hears it and tries to steal it. Any other time it's always on the loudest setting it has.. and even then I sometimes don't hear it go off in my pocket.

[The Headliner]

My phone is rarely ever out of reach, so if it vibrates I'll always know... unless I don't want to talk to you, in which case I'll manage to somehow miss the call.

[Ethan]

You know speaking of I should start adding some of you to my messenger, its been four or so years and I still have not done that yet.

[Hazzy]

I don't get why people DEMAND that other people answer their phones. Especially their mobile phones since you could be doing anything when that goes off. Its like shouting at someone until they answer you, whatever they're doing, at all times. Any time that phone rings you need to pick it up, whoever it is. And then if you don't answer it's not "how come you didn't answer your phone?" like they just curious to know, its "ABOUT TIME, I BEEN RINGING YOU FOR LAST 10 MINUTES, WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU!?" "I WAS TRYING TO FUCKING ENJOY A QUIET RELAXING BATH YOU PRICK".

Having said that, I hate it when people don't reply to my texts. I 99% of the time reply to texts as soon as I get them, and if I've been away from my phone the first thing I do when I come back is check if I've missed any texts and THEN reply. So when other people don't reply to me I instantly think they must just hate me after all and I shouldn't of texted them and I'm an annoying twat that should just keep himself to himsel- and then I get the reply and all is well. 

I guess it works on the same principle as the phone thing. I feel like by texting them I'm intruding into whatever they're doing at the time, so not getting a reply is like a confirmation that I shouldn't of texted them in the first place.

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On a slightly related note, today I found out that text messages cost the service providers NOTHING to send, and that includes media messages. So that is like pure profit when they charge for a text. I read that AT&T charges 20 cents to send AND receive a text message, and the site I read this on worked something out. If you sent 2561 (I think that was the number, I don't know why it was that number, but anyway) MP3s over the internet, it would cost $1 (in bandwidth costs/isp costs I guess). If you sent that same amount of MP3s using the amount of data you send in each text message (about a 10th of a kilobyte) at a rate of $0.20 per message, it would cost something like $31million. Add to that the fact that most text messages would then get some kind of reply, you could double it to $62million. I guess that's a kind of abstract way of looking at it, but the point is texts cost nothing and yet we're charged for them. Texting is a 100billion dollar industry, and the film, tv and gaming industry put together don't even get to 100billion. Phone companies have figured out a pretty nice way of making some dollar there.

[El Jackal]

If there is a legitimate reason like they were in the bath or something then it's fair enough, but I was talking about when they're just sat there doing nothing and they don't hear their phone go off or whatever. It's annoying in instances when I'm trying to organise a night out or something and my girlfriend doesn't answer so then I'm having to wait longer, which is a pain in the arse and often ends up ruining plans when you can't sort it out there and then.

It also depends what kind of view you have, some people see Mobiles simply as a way for themselves to have access to the world in case they need it, whereas other people see it as being able to get hold of said person whenever they want.. if you get what I mean. I have my mobile with the purpose of both, so people can get hold of me when they want me instead of having to wait until I'm in the house to answer a house phone. And so that when I need to I can get hold of whoever I want straight away without having to wait 'til I get home to use a house phone etc.

[The Headliner]

I read that AT&T charges 20 cents to send AND receive a text message

What? That can't be right. Can any American posters confirm this? Surely you don't get charged for receiving messages? From your friends I mean, not those commercial texts that you request and agree to pay for.

[Hazzy]

On the site I was on it said that, I didnt check when the article was posted so don't know how up to date it was. And when I was typing that post ^, I went to the AT&T faq page and it said "on messaging enabled phones that allow sending and receiving text messages, the charge is 0.20$" or something, so it was still ambiguous and I wasn't sure if it meant both ways. But the article I read about text message prices was saying "first it cost 0.20 to send and was free to receive, then it was 10 cents each way so you ended up paying the same amount anyway, now they've upped it to 20 cents each way".

Iunno how they can get away with that, its bad enough you get charged to receive a text from abroad but how can they be such a big company over there if they are charging 20 cents just to receive a text. I'm guessing they wouldn't be alone in charging for it either or they wouldn't have any customers, so must be a general American thing.