I love Alarm, Old Phone, and Xylophone. This should be a checkbox poll; some of us use multiple tones 
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What ringtone are you using?
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I agree I got to listen to all the ring tones for the iPhone and for me that all seem like crap. The only one on there that would even use would be the alarm and I would hate to have it as a ring tone.
I choose my ring tone I use for my phone based on how well does it cut though sound and I can easily hear it. There are very possible ring tones out there that have that quality. My current phone I use the Transformers the movie (1986) theme song and it works very well. Before that I used Alvin and chipmunks theme song and both those work pretty well. Best way to put it for me that have to have a sharp very distinctive note to them and is short. Something that just cuts though the area and can not be filters out as background noise. None of the iPhone ring tones do that for me. It really needs the ablity to add your own.
I am willing to bet a lot of people have one that they would much rather use that is a clip from a song or a sound bite.
Totally agree.
Many of today's musical ring-tones can get 'lost' easily if ambient noise levels are anything more than minimal.
That's why I prefer a traditional (but not retro) phone ring.
On my last phone, I downloaded a musical ringtone for the first time a few months ago. It was a snippet of Carmen, and every time my phone rang in a public place, I would just think "Who's listening to that music?" And then I would realize it was my phone just in time to miss the call.
I chose xylophone because it's different enough from other sounds around me without being annoying. And it seems to be plenty loud.
yeah and people seem to love them. I quite using the Alvin and the Chipmonks for my ringtone for that very reason. It would just get lost in the ambient noise.
For a while I used "Gotta go Faster" Sonic X them song just because it was had a nice beat to it and it was do radicly different than anything I would ever hear that I could pick it out from the noise and when I heard it I knew it was my phone.
Now I am using Transformers:The Move (1986) theme song and it sounds cool enough but more importantly it cuts though ambient noise. Easy to pick out, no one else uses it, I do not get any strange looks and I do not a sense of embarrassments because of the ring tone. Plus I really like transformers if you can not tell my my name.
Oh and my girlfriend does not hate. I am starting to hate Gotta go fast just because it is what wakes me up every morning.
Mind you people do get trained to pick out there ring tone pretty easily. Just only problem is when others have the same one it leads to some pretty funny moments when people are trying to figure out if it is there phone or not. Which is another reason why I like making my own ring tone. I will be the only one using it so I know if it is mine or not.
OLd Phone was my favorite of the Apple ring tone and I just realized that I still do use it for one of my friends personal ring tone.
I use my Danger Island ringtone, of course. Doesn't everyone?
Danger Island? Huh? Okay, so I just showed my age.
Danger Island? Huh? Okay, so I just showed my age.
Completely unfounded statement - the data to make such an assessment (an entirely different question) is lacking completely in this poll.
BTW I love the rich Strum!