One of the most enjoyable aspects of owning a cell phone is that it can be customized to reflect your personality in so many ways.  Indeed, just choosing a certain phone model expresses something about you. For example, choosing a basic black phone can indicate you are practical and prefer utility over aesthetics. Choosing a smart phone shows you are tech savvy, and a music phone expresses the fact that music plays a big part in your life.
Some phones have lights that flash in time to your ringtone, so your choice of ringtones is even more expressive with such a phone because of the way the ringtones cause the lights to flash. Your choice of ringtones is also a super-fun way to let your personality show, and there are enough ringtones out there that you are sure to be able to match your own unique style.
You can also get special wallpapers (pictures and graphics) to go on your phone’s “desktop” or main screen, and if your phone has two screens, you can customize them both to match your mood, your occupation, or your hobby.  You can also use pictures of a child, friend, or vacation spot—the possibilities are endless.  Wallpapers are available from your provider’s website, other websites, you can import pictures from your home computer to your phone, or you can use your favorite picture from your own cell phone photo gallery.
Just picking out a case or belt clip can add personality to your cell phone.  Depending on your phone model, you can also choose different skins of various colors that protect your phone as well as allowing you to change the color to match your outfit or your mood.  If you get a Bluetooth device for your phone, that choice can also express a facet of your personality because there are so many types available—some are quite elegant, others emphasize practicality.
So when you get a cell phone, customize it and let your personality shine through!

Wow, what an option! If I had unlimited ringtones for my cell phone, I would probably change them every week or two, just because I could.

Now you can go to funtonia.com for unlimited ringtones for either a 3-month subscription now costing only $17.97 (it’s $5.99/month), or a yearly subscription for $23.88 (it’s only $1.99/month!) the yearly subscription allows you to download ringtones to three different phones; the 3-month subscription allows downloads to only one phone. They don’t charge per ringtone, nor do they charge per month. Funtonia also never renews your subscription automatically, so you are completely control of the subscription charges.

By comparison, most providers offer three or four ringtones for $9.99, and individually they are usually about $2.50 each. Sometimes your provider will offer you a “sale” on ringtones and charge $1.99 each on a limited selection.

In addition to the Hip-hop, Popular, Rap, and Country ringtones most cell-phone providers offer, on Funtonia you can get Classical ringtones from Vivaldi to Yo-Yo Ma, Gospel, Jazz, TV and movie themes, and much more - 500,000 ringtones to choose from. Just for fun, listen to some of the Background Sound Effects; if you have ever wanted to have a ringtone that sounds like the fanfare at the beginning of a horserace, you can get it here.

This website offers ringtones in either polyphonic or MP3 formats, so if your phone only supports polyphonic, or if you want music without vocals, you have that choice as well. Usually the MP3 format is the most desired, because the song will on your phone will sound just like it sounds on the radio or your CD.
The download options include by text message and by internet; by saving your unlimited ringtones to your computer and then transferring them to your phone, you don’t even need a memory card for your phone to take full advantage of Funtonia’s unlimited ringtone subscriptions. So check out Funtonia and go ringtone crazy!

Now you can assign a different ringtone to each number on your list and customize the tone for the personality of the person calling. You could also assign special ringtones for businesses, and customize them according to what that business sells, such as a Jimmy Buffet cheeseburger song for the fast-food place, or a blues song for a bill collector. Although I would recommend a bit of restraint if you really don’t like the caller, as you never know who else might be around when you get that call, this could be a lot of fun.

I have assigned a country song to the horse-lover, a party song for my bar-hopper friend, a love song for the love interest in my life, and a golden oldies song for my grandmother. You can find songs to use for a child, a biker, a cat or dog lover, sister songs, brother songs, a classical song for a dancer or concert pianist, old favorites and the newest releases. If you have friends in other countries you would know from where they were calling by using national anthems for their numbers. Imagine the fun of changing the ringtones when your mood changes, or when your address changes, or whenever!

Some websites offer some really original and fun sounds in addition to more traditional ringtones, such as the sound of the ocean, Mickey Mouse laughing, the sound of a kiss, of a water drip. You can always listen to a short clip of a ringtone before you buy it - the choices are so much fun, you can spend hours just listening to the different options.

So let your imagination run wild and have some fun with those ringtones!

I’d like to describe just a few ways to have fun with your cell phone. If you are traveling and there is more than one vehicle, having a cell phone in each vehicle can be useful as well as fun. If one vehicle needs to make a rest stop, it can notify the other vehicle and inform the other that the stop is not an emergency.

If there is an emergency, the vehicle needing assistance can notify the other, and they can together determine if another party needs to be involved, such as a tow truck or an emergency medical vehicle.
If there is an unusual view coming up, or if interesting wildlife has been spotted, vehicles can notify each other of the deer at the side of the road or the view of a National Monument at the next freeway exit.

When you get to your destination, another use of your cell phone is to find each other in a crowd or at a large venue such as a Parade of Homes or in a convention center such as one in Las Vegas that covers approximately five acres on each of five floors.

If you are attending a seminar or similar meeting, texting is a great way to communicate in between breaks when the ringing of a phone is frowned upon. But at a state fair, carnival, or theme park, you may want to set your ringtone the something very unusual and loud so it will be heard over the background noise. Or at a basketball, football, baseball or soccer game, you may want to set a unique ringtone for your phone so you know whether you want to answer the call during an exciting play. In addition, if your child has a cell phone at such a venue, a special ringtone denoting your child’s call could be very handy. You may not want to answer any other call except that one.

On any of these occasions, having more than one cell phone can be very handy, and very fun. So have fun with those cell phones!

Many of us now use a Bluetooth device for our cell phones, and another use for them is downloading ringtones. First you will need to choose and purchase a ringtone and make sure it is saved to the desktop of your computer. One great advantage of downloading ringtones to your computer is that they stay there forever, no matter how many times you upgrade to a new phone, so you can always put those ringtones onto a new phone without purchasing them again. Another advantage is that you don’t need to have internet service for your phone, only for your computer.

Before you attempt this procedure, you need to be familiar with your Bluetooth owner/operator manual and be able to get your cell phone to recognize your Bluetooth device. If you have problems with your Bluetooth, the best way to get help is to call the Bluetooth manufacturer.

Your next step will be to open the Bluetooth Manager on your cell phone and select “New”. Then you’ll need to go to “Connect” from the menu, and go to “Select Activesynch via Bluetooth”. You will be prompted by your cell phone to get your computer ready, and to go to the screen where you can Select a Device, which will be your home computer.

Your computer should then recognize your Bluetooth device, and you should be able to find the Activesynch icon in the Bluetooth shortcut tab in the Bluetooth Manager on your cell phone. Now you can transfer the ringtone file from your computer desktop to your phone—make sure you know what file you put the ringtone into on your phone so you can find it after it is transferred.

Once the file has been transferred to your phone, you can open the file and assign the ringtone to different phone numbers you have in your Address Book or Contact list.
This is a convenient method of getting ringtones on your cell phone without having to use the internet or text messaging on your phone. Even if both are blocked, you can use your Bluetooth device to transfer your ringtones from your computer to your phone. Now enjoy those ringtones!

Although there has been some controversy lately about what teenagers are doing with their cell phones, there are a lot of advantages in allowing your child to have a cell phone. Of course, the first reason a parent would allow a child to have a cell phone is for safety. If a child is observed talking on a cell phone while walking alone, that is a great deterrent to anyone with dubious intentions.

In addition, most schools do not allow children to use their phones to call their parents unless it is a dire emergency. If a child needs to call a parent to inform the parent of an unplanned after-school activity, a cell phone is great for that. If the child wants to ask a parent’s permission to spend time with a friend after school, asking by cell phone is a very handy way.

Since a child cannot always be expected to act responsibly, just because children are not, by definition, always responsible, there are certain limitations a parent can put on the phone. For example, text messaging and internet data usage can be completely blocked without limiting the actual voice use of the phone.

Many cell-phone providers also offer features to limit the number of minutes the child’s phone can use, the time of day the phone can be used, and even the numbers that can be dialed or received by the child’s phone. Be aware 911 is never blocked. Filters can also be activated to stop any adult content from being sent to the phone via internet. Although controls cannot be set on what type of picture or video messages might be sent to a child from a friend, if the picture and video messages are blocked through the phone’s provider, adult content is still effectively blocked.

Parents can set a special ringtone so they are alerted any time their child is calling them without having to look at their caller ID, and children could be allowed to choose wallpapers and ringtones for their cell phone, so they can be more than just a survival tool—even with texting, picture messaging and the internet blocked, they can still have a cell phone that is fun.