Vintage Telephone Ringtones

[Diamondback]

How 'bout a vintage cellphone?

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=287

I'm starting to consider one of these to go along with the Big Red Button USB hubs and USB missile-launchers I'm gearing up to fortify the office with...

 

[Shovelhead]

The ring tone on my cell for my wife's number is "Caledonia" by Louis Jordan, how's that?

 

[Geesie]

How 'bout a vintage cellphone?

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=287

I'm starting to consider one of these to go along with the Big Red Button USB hubs and USB missile-launchers I'm gearing up to fortify the office with...

$300 ?


You can get a Bell 500 for a lot cheaper on eBay and find directions for conversion online.

 

[Diamondback]

Figured that was the case--I was just too lazy to look up better and that was the version one site with the Big Red Button (not the "Easy Button", think "Cold War MADness" lol) had as a suggested accessory.

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[Talbot]

I had a WWII submarine model 60 dive claxon for my ringtone. One day the phone went off in the elevator and folks got a bit worried (watching the look on peoples faces when they realised it was a phone was humorous, I'll admit).

I toyed with the theme from M. Hulots Holiday, but for now have settled on a bongo/conga drum riff on loop.

 

[Slim Portly]

Along the same lines, what sites/programs does everyone use to create/download ringtones? I haven't used any online sites as I don't want to be phone or email spammed.

 

[miss_elise]

my phone can play mp3s as ringtones... therefore I just chop up a music file and use that... when i can be bothered

 

[Fleur De Guerre]

My rintone is 'Sing, Sing, Sing' by Benny Goodman. Well, the first 30 seconds of it!

Slim - I used this place and it was ace.

http://audiko.net/

 

[Lillemor]

I've had a cellphone forced on me. The first one 2½ years ago and the last one two summers ago. I still don't understand how it works, I only use it for emergencies, I miss all calls and have to call back...when I've figured out how to turn it on, remembered the code and found the phone book and functions for calling people back...*sigh!*. Ring tone? Erh...whatever hub set it to.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

My rintone is 'Sing, Sing, Sing' by Benny Goodman. Well, the first 30 seconds of it!

Slim - I used this place and it was ace.

http://audiko.net/

I tried this -- I want Rudy Vallee's "Kitty From Kansas City" as my ringtone -- but I think I'm a bit confused :eusa_doh: How do I get it into my phone? Is it free?

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"AL Capone's cozy Cell, there must be a candlestick phone hidden somewhere, if only a party line?"

Im guessing in the shade of that table lamp

 

[Fleur De Guerre]

I tried this -- I want Rudy Vallee's "Kitty From Kansas City" as my ringtone -- but I think I'm a bit confused :eusa_doh: How do I get it into my phone? Is it free?

I'm not sure - I have an iPhone and just put the tone into iTunes, but I assumed it had instructions for other brands... can you connect your phone to the computer? If not then maybe you can't get it on there.

It is free though.

 

[Miss Golightly]

My ringtone is Moon River from the original movie soundtrack for Breakfast at Tiffanys - as you've probably guessed "I'm crazy about Tiffany's!"

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Oh Yes! imagine pulling this out of your portmanteau on the train in peak hour in the morning!, now that cell phones are so small, and cheap you have "Elan" if you carry something huge and clunky" imagine if it had a pull out ashtray on the front!!!!

 

[scotrace]

Housekeeping

Merged into two earlier threads. -scotrace

 

[Ethan Bentley]

I use the standard "ring ring".

 

[Diamondback]

Along the same lines, what sites/programs does everyone use to create/download ringtones? I haven't used any online sites as I don't want to be phone or email spammed.

Slim, you might give RingFactory a whack--$10 in the "bargain section" of Target's software rack, so you're not out much if it doesn't work for you. (I have it installed, but untested--bought it to get Mom a Toccata & Fugue in D Minor ringer and an air-raid siren for myself, but just haven't found the right source audio yet...)

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[Talbot]

Along the same lines, what sites/programs does everyone use to create/download ringtones? I haven't used any online sites as I don't want to be phone or email spammed.

Not to mention being ripped off by the ringtone club memberships. A fellow where I work joined one of these clubs for ringtone down load, and a month after he'd joined he checked his mobile account and discovered that they'd charged him for the ringtones he could've downloaded, but didn't. Arguing with the phone company takes time, and he racked up some $200 before he could get off the hook.

If your phone plays MP3's download these, or convert what you have to MP3. I have a great freeware utility that seems to be able to convert anything to any other thing. Audio and video. Its free and it works - PM me if interested

 

[AtomicEraTom]

How 'bout a vintage cellphone?

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=287

I'm starting to consider one of these to go along with the Big Red Button USB hubs and USB missile-launchers I'm gearing up to fortify the office with...

Gotta like this cell phone! I wonder how heavy it is once the network, brass bells, etc are removed and new techno-junk put in there. Can you imagine trying to text on this though?! LOL.

I do however think it would be right at home among my babies. The family is still growing, and I have more coming any day!

 

[Diamondback]

Tom, IIRC it still has the brass bells in it--the ultimate "vintage ringtone"? lol

Personally, I'd like to see a version of Maxwell Smart's shoe-phone that's not only both functional and wearable, but has the durability for field use...

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