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...recently embraced fully licensed ringtones that actually sound like music, he says, and Zingy is racing to sign up the most popular hip-hop acts to exclusive ringtone deals. (His roster already includes 50 Cent, Ludacris and Snoop Dogg.) Grinda says the only thing holding the content back is handsets: just some 15% of cell phones in use today support the best-quality ringtones. Of course, Americans typically replace their cell phones every 18 months. "Give me two years, and every handset in the U.S. will be compatible," he says...
Lost your cell phone? No problem. The Openwave Mobile Device Manager, available later this year on Sony Ericsson phones, automatically saves phone numbers, photos, music and other data from your handset on a secure network. When you get your replacement phone, all your contacts can be easily restored...
...with a miniature hard drive, ? la the iPod. Called the SPH-V5400, the phone has 1.5 gigabytes of memory?that's less than half the 4 GB on the iPod Mini but still enough for 300 songs. The price is estimated to be a wallet-straining $800. Other handset manufacturers?like Nokia, the world's largest?are considering making phones with hard drives...
...started, you'll need a mobile handset with a good color screen, preferably one that came out within the past year. The larger your screen, the easier it will be to see and play the game. You also need to be connected to your cellular service to download games, but you can usually play even if you don't have a clear signal to place a call...
...hear 'de de de de deeeee' ever again," Paananen recalls. "I wanted to hear Van Halen's Jump, and I was willing to pay for it." The technology was there to program mobile phones to play pop tunes rather than electronic bleeps, so he tried to talk operators and handset makers into offering a selection of popular hits. But his pleas fell on deaf ears: "The biggest resistance was from the operators, who said, 'Ring tones, what's that?'" After almost a year of failed pitches, Paananen managed to convince Finnish operator Radiolinja that ring tones could help workers...