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 trendy and almost free ringtones from their CDs and MP3 collections, what does this mean to the Music Industry - which today views ringtones as salvation from their slump in sales?Ringtones to the music industry mean gravy - certainly another revenue stream from which they can joyfully tap. But if users can buy software such as Ringtone Media Studio, developed