Sometimes it’s hard to find the tone you want or maybe you want to make your own and be absolutely unique. If you’re musically talented it can be a great way to show off your skills and have some fun mixing up funky beats. So how is it done?

First of all you need to have a phone that can connect to your PC either via USB, infared or bluetooth etc. so you can get your creation on to your phone. The next thing is to know which type of audio formats your phone accepts. Most recent phones are mp3 or WAV capable and if so you shouldn’t have any dramas.

After that of course what you need to do is make your ringtone. And there is a few ways to go about it. You can download software for your computer especially designed to convert audio files into ringtone files aka the converter or tap out your own funky beat on a composer.

Ringtone Composers

RingoPhone:

Ringophone composer is a free ringtone composer which you can compose ringtones by simply playing them using the virtual piano. Download at Softpedia

DJ ToneXpress The Ringtone Creator:

lets you make unlimited customized real music ringtones from MP3, WMA, AAC/MP4, WAV files & Audio CDs plus post your created ringtones on your blog with their player so your friends can hear them. The 3 step Ringtone Creation Wizard guides you through music selection, ringtone editing and upload to phone. Download at downloadatoz

Ringtone Converters

A123 Mobile Ringtone Converter:

A mobile ring creator from almost all kinds of Audio and Video media file, including AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, ASF, VOB, 3GP, iPhone, MOV, FLV video and MP3, AAC, AC3, AMR, M4A, OGG, WAV audio format. You can convert to MP3, AAC, AC3, AMR, M4A, OGG and WAV audio in batch mode. The most important is you can split your favorite music from long movie and save it as your mobile ring. Download at:Cnet

MP3 Ringtone Maker:

Converts most of the audio files (MP3, WMA, WAV) to the most of the popular ringtone formats which can be played on mobile phones - MP3 and AMR. Download at downloadatoz

The Nokia Young Creatives Challenge is part of the International Advertising Festival in Cannes, France where 20 teams of young film buffs exercised their film making skills in a 48 hour shoot out!

The 20 teams of two members each who were given the same creative brief and 48 hours to shoot, edit, and produce a 30 second spot – all on the Nokia N93i cell phone. Apart from being a brilliant display of creative talent it also demonstrates the amazing ability of the N93i with it’s DVD like video quality (perfect for uploading to youtube!).

The topic for the film was Climate Change which the team from Italy have taken the top prize.

To watch the submissions and background on the event visit Nokia - Cannes. Feeling creative? You can also find out at the site how to be apart of next years event. So put your director pants on and get shooting with that N93!

The LG-KU250/U250 handset, a sleek and slim 3G mobile phone, was selected in 2007 for the GSM Association’s “3G for All” campaign by a consortium of the 12 largest mobile operators (GSMA-global trade association for mobile operators). Read the rest of this entry »