Ringtones represents your way of thinking. It represents your individuality and personality. Today different ringtones are used to represent different contacts. This means that a father , mother or family will trigger a particular ringtone while a friend may trigger a different ringtone. What is this talk of monophonic, polyphonic and truetone ringtones? In earlier cell phones there was only the ubiquituous 'tring tring' ringtone. But with the advent of technology and widespead use of mobile phones the quality of rendering of the ringtones has also improved. Monophonic ringtones have the capability to play one tone. These use midi technology and is a combination of multiple notes played in sequence. With the arrival of other more advanced ringtone technologies, monophonic ringtones are now available for free at different web sites. The author’s bio section at the end of this article contains a lnk to one such site.

Polyphonic ringtones are built on the same midi technology as monophonic ringtones but have the added capacity to play more than 40 notes in sequence. The quality of a polyphonic ringtone is much higher than a monophonic ringtone. If your mobile handset does not support mp3 ringtones, then polyphonic ringtones are the best you can opt for. But in case your handset supports mp3, then that is the option you should go for. By the way, polyphonic ringtones are also available free of cost but there are some select ringtones that are also chargeable. Now a days these ringtones cost anywhere between 99c and $3. Some sites charge on a membership basis but you can download sample ringtones just for registering. Visit the link in the author’s bio section for one such site.