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What iPhone ringtone do you use?

  • Alarm

    Votes: 5 2.3%
  • Ascending

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Bark

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Bell Tower

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • Blues

    Votes: 3 1.4%
  • Boing

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • Crickets

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • Digital

    Votes: 3 1.4%
  • Doorbell

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • Duck

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • Harp

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • Marimba

    Votes: 72 33.2%
  • Motorcycle

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Old Car Horn

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • Old Phone

    Votes: 50 23.0%
  • Piano Riff

    Votes: 7 3.2%
  • Pinball

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • Robot

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • Sci-Fi

    Votes: 7 3.2%
  • Sonar

    Votes: 9 4.1%
  • Strum

    Votes: 18 8.3%
  • Timba

    Votes: 2 0.9%
  • Time Passing

    Votes: 5 2.3%
  • Trill

    Votes: 3 1.4%
  • Xylophone

    Votes: 20 9.2%

  • Total voters
    217

mrat93

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Dec 30, 2006
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Just making a poll of what ringtones you iPhone users are using. I'm using Pinball, what about you?

EDIT: Just so nobody asks, I made this poll four days after the iPhone came out and at the time, I didn't know that custom ringtones would be here in the near future. I wish I knew at the time, because now I have custom ringtones too.
 
i am half-glad that the iphone doesnt have custom ringtones for now. Dont you just hate it when youre in a meeting/on the train/at dinner and someone's phone plays a ridiculous ringtone? they always get embarrased -- so why do they pick that one?

the built in ring tones are tasteful and unannoying, which i like.

but i admit i will be the first to add a piano ringtone if/when the feature becomes available on the iphone.
 
I've always like the idea of having new technology have a bit of 'old skool' in it, so I chose old phone without hesitation. Plus, most folks, including myself, have found it the easiest to hear in most conditions.

But, yes - would still like an option to what are given - and that should come sometime or another...
 
Old phone - there is just something ironic about the supposed ultimate cellphone sounding like a 70's wired phone. I'm into irony... :rolleyes:
 
This poll should give them an idea of poorly received most of their tones... are.

I disagree. A poll of what ringtones people use doesn't tell you anything about how unpopular the ringtones are in general, because the question was not gathering that information.

The poll only tells you the distribution of what people chose for their ringtones. If the majority lean toward one ringtone, it doesn't automatically mean they hate the selection. In fact, such a poll provides you no data in that regard unless the question being asked is "How would you rate the overall selection?" and if the average answer is below 3 on a scale of 1 to 5 where 5 is best, THEN you have data to arrive at the conclusion that people dislike the selection.

Furthermore, because Marimba happens to be the default tone, the poll as it is currently phrased cannot tell you whether the reason the majority chose Marimba is because they liked it best, or because they disliked one or several or all of the other ringtones, or because they simply haven't yet bothered to explore options outside the default ringtone (though statistically speaking this last one is probably the most likely reason as the majority of cell phone users do not customize their ringtones to begin with).

Granted, I personally agree that the ringtone selection seems narrow (but then I'm a technogeek who also mastered the touchscreen keyboard in less than a day and I wouldn't assume my views are shared by the majority) and it will obviously broaden in the near future as file management becomes available, but you cannot say that this informal poll, with the question phrased as it is, provides data to support the idea that the selection that does exist is poorly received.... and if I may pick one last nit:

There is a difference between not having a large enough selection and disliking the selection that exists. There's a different survey question to arrive at either of these conclusions...e.g. you cannot ask "Is the selection large enough?" and conclude that the ringtones that exist are generally disliked.
 
I really like marimba. I was using it on my old phone for a while before getting an iPhone
 
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