Background Music During Your Cell Calls?
Source: Cellebrum.com
Via: Mobhappy.com
"Background tones are music that plays in the background while you are talking on the phone. Cellebrum, the tech providers, say that they have over 1 million subscribers in India, with 3 million downloads and the typical pattern is to change
tones once or twice a month"
MobHappy has a piece up on background tones – music or religious chants / other general sound effects playing during a cell call – being a growing trend in India and possibly being set to catch on elsewhere.
I feel pressured already. I’m voting against this for now. It’s bad enough when I occasionally get sucked into the ‘gotta have a cool ringtone’ frame of mind. And then, at least in my case, I rapidly find out that my ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’ theme is just not funny. But now we’ve got to pick out cool / acceptable / non-irritating background music too? Background music that will not scare off a prospective client / partner etc with our oddball tastes, keep our background music so vanilla that we don’t run any risks? Marvelous.
Anyway, if you want to hear more about this possibly growing trend, check the MobHappy piece and some links there to suppliers of the background tones services:
Tags: Background Tones, Just Another Mobile Monday
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6 Comments
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.GreenHex
Aug 5, 2006
Why must all progress be irritating? Very soon you’ll find that your phone converstation is interrupted and advertisements piped in every 20 seconds or so. Then everybody would be happy.
dgoldring
Aug 5, 2006
I would like to win Agenda Fusion. Did I win?? Did I win?? Sorry, this product seemed so ridiculous, I figured it had to be some kind of a joke or something…
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GreenHex
Aug 5, 2006
Dgoldring!
The giveaway has not not yet started. And this is an unrelated news item and review.
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Ellen
Aug 7, 2006
What a nasty idea. People are already yelling into their phones because they can’t hear with all the ambient noise. Do we really need more interference with hearing our calls?
dgoldring
Aug 7, 2006
Greenhex, I was just joking in my previous comment.
Seriously, though, does anyone really need music playing in the background on their cell phone?? I have enough trouble figuring out ringers.
PatrickJ
Aug 7, 2006
I would tend to agree with all of you so far – this does sound pretty irritating. Can maybe see the appeal to younger / non-business cell users, but even there …
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