Have you ever tried making your cell phone act like a CD player whenever there’s a call or a text message? If not, then this can be a good idea to enhance your mobile unit. Enhancing your mobile unit should not only mean customizing its display setting or its physical appearance such as the color of the housing or the keypad. Since most cell phones nowadays are capable of playing full mp3 songs, free real tones as its message and call alert tones are in place.

If you are creative enough, you can create your own unique free real tones through:

1. Recording voice and music combinations. To produce the utmost quality sound, you should do this to a sound-proof room or to quiet place
2. After recording, you can edit this through audio-editing software and then make some sound arrangements
3. After all the sound elements have been nicely mixed, you can save the file according to the file format supported by your mobile phone

On the other hand, if you don’t have the luxury of time and place to perform your sound creativity, you can always use your favorite new songs.

Most people nowadays are always in line with the current trend, especially the teenagers and young adult. Having real tone for their mobile phone is definitely a must-have and they feel like they are left behind when they can’t get free real tones.

There are literally thousands of real tones for the mobile phone. These tones signify unique individuality. You select your favorite music and then set it as a ringing tone. Ringing tones reflect one’s personality:

1. Music with violent theme reflects a violent mind
2. Classical music as ringing tone means a classical mind
3. Upbeat music means the owner has positive outlook
4. Pop songs mean always in current style

Depending on how others interpret it, the most important thing is that these real tones are fun to have. It doesn’t matter what type of music you choose, as long as it is free and of excellent quality, then it can be good for your phone.

Just remember that ringing tones last for not more than a minute, so definitely only a part of the music will be played. In order to play only the catchiest phrase of the song, you can either download real tones or edit an mp3 song through audio-editing software. Downloading and editing entails the use of personal computers and laptops. So don’t forget your connectors such as:

1. USB phone connector
2. Bluetooth device for the PC and the mobile unit
3. Infrared ports
4. The necessary software to facilitate the communication between the computer and the mobile unit
5. Memory card and reader

Another important tip is to make sure that the file you have downloaded has the correct file format for your cell phone; otherwise, it will fail to play giving you additional time and effort for file conversion. When downloading files from various sites, make sure that your anti-virus definitions are always up-to-date to keep you computers protected from malicious codes.