beep beep, i'm a phone!
For those who don't know, I recently got a new phone (same number.) Since it has a metric shitton more possibilities than my last phone, I thought it'd be nice if I shared what I had found in the last day I've owned it.
First - custom ringtones. Almost any new phone has mp3 support in some form or another, and there are always sites and services that will sell you ringtones for whatever phone you have. If you're like me though, you don't feel like spending cash on what some jackass felt was a decent song, filtered down to 60kbps or so. That's where Audacity steps in. You can cut clips from your own mp3s, at your own bitrate, then move them to your phone as you see fit.
Also, if you like pre-cut clips without the price, check out Blackberry MP3s. Great site that has some low-bitrate clips from a ton of songs.
Second- video clips. Some phones can play them, some can't. If yours can't, skip this and read on. I personally use imToo to convert files to 3GP format (most phones on the market will use this format unless a carrier changes it.) I managed to pop an entire movie into a 150MB file pretty quickly. Music videos and the like would probably go much faster. Or, once again, if you want to check out some pre-made clips, go to Blackberry Movies.
The third thing that isn't for the feint of heart would be flashing your phone. You can change the startup screens, icons, pretty much everything that the carrier usually puts on your phone (I'm sure you've gotten sick of the U.S. Cellular and Verizon crap by now.) It also runs the risk of bricking your phone, so take my advice at face value and proceed with caution. A good site for Motorola phones (they seem to be easier to break into since many carriers provide them) is The Moto Guide. They deal mostly with Razrs, but the same principles apply to almost all Motorola phones.
Anyways, good luck with your phones, and don't pay for crap you don't need to. Larr-Bear has commanded it.
First - custom ringtones. Almost any new phone has mp3 support in some form or another, and there are always sites and services that will sell you ringtones for whatever phone you have. If you're like me though, you don't feel like spending cash on what some jackass felt was a decent song, filtered down to 60kbps or so. That's where Audacity steps in. You can cut clips from your own mp3s, at your own bitrate, then move them to your phone as you see fit.
Also, if you like pre-cut clips without the price, check out Blackberry MP3s. Great site that has some low-bitrate clips from a ton of songs.
Second- video clips. Some phones can play them, some can't. If yours can't, skip this and read on. I personally use imToo to convert files to 3GP format (most phones on the market will use this format unless a carrier changes it.) I managed to pop an entire movie into a 150MB file pretty quickly. Music videos and the like would probably go much faster. Or, once again, if you want to check out some pre-made clips, go to Blackberry Movies.
The third thing that isn't for the feint of heart would be flashing your phone. You can change the startup screens, icons, pretty much everything that the carrier usually puts on your phone (I'm sure you've gotten sick of the U.S. Cellular and Verizon crap by now.) It also runs the risk of bricking your phone, so take my advice at face value and proceed with caution. A good site for Motorola phones (they seem to be easier to break into since many carriers provide them) is The Moto Guide. They deal mostly with Razrs, but the same principles apply to almost all Motorola phones.
Anyways, good luck with your phones, and don't pay for crap you don't need to. Larr-Bear has commanded it.
2 comments:
Good work. When I got my new phone I went about looking for a custom ringtone generator of sorts and I found that most of the programs that say "ringtone maker 2.0" or whatever are really just tweaked versions of audacity.
Sadly my new phone doesn't come with with a microSD slot so I'm limited to the installed memory on my phone.
Yeah, I should've mentioned the whole microSD card thing. I got a 1GB card myself, which makes putting movies and all sorts of goodies on my phone a breeze.
My next goal is to get a Knoppix or Ubuntu LiveCD on there so I can boot a computer from the phone. You know that's hot, so don't lie. You're all jealous.
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