In tune with the tones

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">If your phone rang and <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Kal Ho Na Ho </span>or the signature tune of <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Mission Impossible</span> filled the air, no one would bat an eyelid.<br /><br />But if it were the regular trring trring of the telephone, people would look around for the ''out-of-it'' clown who hasn''t graduated to the immense selection of whacky tunes available.<br /><br />For if it isn''t the latest, it sure ain''t hip n happening.<br /><br />Gen Y is all about being with the times, picking up all that has just hit the markets.If trendy is the operative word in everything from clothes to technology, having the grooviest ringtones on your mobile phone isn''t a fad, it''s necessity. <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Chandigarh Times</span> gives you a low-down on the ''what''s hot what''s not'' in the latest tunes to smother the senses.<br /><br />"The tunes could be any. Film songs or pop tunes, even old numbers, it doesn''t matter. The issue is of variety. No one wants to listen to the boring seven or eight custom ringtones that each phone has. They''re passé," avers Richa Sharma, communications executive. She admits to sitting in an office where no two ringtones are the same.<br /><br />"Not only does that tell you whose phone is ringing, it''s a different melody that one gets to hear every time," she tells.<br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><br />Homemaker Shivani Singh is all for the ringtone revolution. "It''s great fun to sit and download tunes from the Internet. All one has to do is go to a particular website and get the code that one can feed into the phone. Voila, your ringtone is yours to enjoy," she affirms. And for those who think the process sounds tedious, there are tunes that one can get from one''s service providers for a particular charge.<br /><br />However, it isn''t always a pleasurable experience for the ears.<br /><br />A few mobile services have started with a new service that enables callers to listen to funky tunes chosen by the person they have called. But the concept has been received with mixed reactions.<br /><br />While some think that the idea is cute, others find it annoying. "It''s a totally cheap concept, very distracting as well. The first time the phone began to ring and this song came on, I thought I had a bad connection," freelance photographer Vikraant Gill complains.<br /><br />The company might have gone amiss on this concept, but they sure know how to get back into their customers good books with the jazziest tunes. So music lovers ahoy. For you''re in the middle of a ringtone riot.</div> </div>