A popular feature available on many phones is the option to select distinctive ring tones. It’s a unique way of notifying you whenever you receive calls from certain parties. This can be handy for a number of reasons. Let’s take a look at 10 reasons to use distinctive ring tones:
- Audible Caller ID – Distinctive ring tones can tell you who’s calling without having to fish out your phone and check visually. This is particularly useful when driving.
- Classification of Calls – By using distinctive tones, you can distinguish between business and social calls; family and friends, welcome and unwelcome calls, etc.
- Rating System – Remember the days of the proverbial little black book, where you kept all the names of your romantic interests? Well, now you can use a song like Firework or Forget You to remind you of just how memorable (or not) that date was with your caller.
- Prioritization – You can also select certain ring tones to alert you to important calls. Why not give your divorce lawyer that distinctive two-note gavel tone from Law & Order? Or your doctor the theme from House?
- Reminders – It’s not uncommon to have contacts in your phone and forget why they’re in there. It may be someone you networked with at a seminar several months back. Assign ring tones that can remind you who your contacts are. For instance, in this case, maybe Taking Care of Business would be your clue that this is someone you met at a work-related function.
- Hands-Free Call Screening – If you’re busy or preoccupied, you can continue working when the sounds of The Band Perry’s You Lie inform you that it’s just your ex calling.
- Identification of Called Party – If a phone is shared, setting distinctive ring tones for each user’s contacts will tell you who the calls are for as well as who they’re from.
- Break the Monotony – Face it, some of the standard ring tones are pretty boring, even annoying. It’s good to have an assortment of more pleasant tones, if for no other reason than to have a less unnerving experience when the phone rings.
- Is That Yours or Mine? - We’ve all been in a group when a phone rang and everyone looked at each other as if to say, “Who’s ringing?” You can stand out from that crowd of ringers with distinctive ring tones and know for certain whether that call is yours.
- Audibility – Some tones carry better than others, or are more audible in certain environments. There are times when none of the preset tones on a phone is quite sufficient to get your attention. The volume levels of some downloadable ring tones can be the difference between hearing or missing your calls.
With so many options available, some people actually subscribe to ringtone services that will supply them a whole new list of options every month and keep plenty of new choices available.
