Sentence examples for ringtone from inspiring English sources

Mobile phone junkies beware, though - a pound is payable to the Lifeboat Fund for every ringtone heard in the bar.

Nigel Farage is probably making it his ringtone as we speak.

DOWNLOADING a special ringtone on to your mobile phone so that it plays a tinny rendition of a pop song instead of ringing is a booming market.

The dubious firms that currently dominate the ringtone business (many of which began life as providers of porn phone lines) may be squeezed out.

Ringtone sales were $3.5 billion worldwide last year, up by 40% from 2002, according to ARC Group, a consultancy.

Europe and Asia lead the way, but in America the Yankee Group, another consultancy, recently raised its estimate of last year's ringtone sales from $50m to $80m.

Instead of a plinky-plonk rendition of the Britney Spears hit, "Toxic", as your ringtone, you could have a brief sound clip of Britney herself.Both mobile operators and record labels sense a huge opportunity here.

Anyone can make a ringtone out of a pop song, provided they pay royalties.

Ringtone sales also outstrip legal internet download services, such as Apple's iTunes, which generate under $100m a year worldwide.The appeal of ringtones, to teenagers in particular, is that they act as a fashion statement.

At $3.5 billion in annual sales, the mobile ringtone market has grown to one-tenth the size of the recorded music business.But can paid-for services compete with free ones?

As if anticipating the End of Days, Abu Qatada's young son has a ringtone on his mobile phone of the crash of an incoming missile followed by a jihadist anthem.But the two ideologues also have concerns.