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I recently upgraded my cell phone to the Motorola V750. For the price (free after contract) it is a pretty decent phone. With a still camera, video camera, bluetooth, and micro SD card it packed a lot of punch.
The one thing that really baffelled me was how to get ringtones to the phone without paying for them. My cell carrier (Verizon) was more than happy to sell me ringtones on the phone with their “My Music” feature on the phone. That option would cost me money.
Here’s the solution:
Grab the mp3 you want.
You need to make sure that the mp3 is less than 30 seconds long. If you have an audio editing program you can cut down the mp3 that you want. If you don’t have one, I suggest you grab the open-source Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) and trim the file so it’s less than 30 seconds.
Save the mp3 locally to your computer.
E-mail your phone with the amp3 attached. If you don’t know your phone’s e-mail address try sending a text message to your e-mail address. You’ll see your phone’s e-mail address in the “To:” field.
When you get the message on your phone you will click on “options” and “save attachment as ring tone”.
Then head to your sounds settings and you’ll see the ringtone on your list.
Enjoy!

written by tom

For the past few years I have been anxiously awaiting the support of AACplus streaming in iTunes. The AACplus stream format handles compression much better than other popular streaming formats, like mp3. AACplus also doesn’t have the stigma with IT folks like mp3s do.

written by tom