What can you say about ring tones? NOTHING ... except that cell phones capable of downloading ringtones are the successor of monophonic ringtones but the immediate predecessor to true tone ringtones. This is in contrast to MP3 ringtones, for example, which will play digitally sampled recordings.True tones are the most popular feature requested is downloadable ringtones.The cell phone and had a choice of monophonic ring tones that produced a one note song. The number of songs was extremely limited and downloadable ring tones were simple chimes and on later models, a combination of chimes. Limited numbers of ringtones were available and mostly consisted of different patterns of tones or chirps. An example of one of the many free ringtone sites that are online. The distinction that must be made is what is free, and what is a lure to get you into their site. However, most cell phone companies have a certain agenda when giving away these freebies.Most cell phone manufacturers Nokia is offering more than 1200 free and user-friendly Nokia ringtones for their customers in keypress format.