The New iPhone SMS Ringtones [Video]
While looking for new features and hidden secrets within iOS 4.2 Beta 3, we found a gem: New SMS ringtones! Have a listen. More »
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While looking for new features and hidden secrets within iOS 4.2 Beta 3, we found a gem: New SMS ringtones! Have a listen. More »
View full post on Gizmodo
These are all way too long. I prefer SMS tones to be extremely short and unobtrusive. Do they think the iphone user base is composed primarily of disney-loving pre-pubes?
chris.trost
Tell me that all these are only part of the beta
nastavirs
I’m running 4.1 and I see no options to “change with buttons”.
macpatrik
Too long!
SMS tones are not like ring tones. These need to be a fraction of a second long, not multiple seconds.
tucker augie’ben’doggy
Man some of them are too “ginkcuf” long!!! But please give us a way to creat our own sound and most of all to be able to select different one for different contact.
SDRON
@rashad123us: Apple, Inc should change it’s name to ACME, Inc
Celtic1888
I agree. They sound like something out of Disney animations.
kineticbuzz
@Erik_says_this: Yea, i was thinking the same thing. I just want a simple beep type sound for sms not some long ringtone type sound.
pettiger15
@ithrewitontheground: I think Noir is the only passable one out of that ENTIRE batch.
Preyfar
Not a single one of these is practical. They are all long enough to be ringtones. I like SMS tones to be extremely short and unobtrusive.
chris.trost
I’ve been creating my own SMS ringtones since 2.2 on my first-gen iPhone.
Not a big deal.
RuBBa_cHiKiN: North Gizmodo is Best Gizmodo
Almost all of these are WAY too long for an SMS alert sound. They seem more like regular ringtones.
TonyRockyHorror
Awful and annoying. All of them.
lycosman
Aaaaand, they’re all too long and just rubbish.
I’ve had the “bebeep MAIL mothafucka” from Eurotrip waiting in the wings for its day…
draven301
Some Pixar leftovers it seems.
akf2000
I still don’t get why no custom text tones. Surely Apple could monetize that as well.
Of course, I personally would just grab a couple of my own clips and use them.
starbuck13
Why can you not have your own SMS noises apple? Why keep cutting down user options pointlessly? You arn’t even making money out of it which is just weird.
At least these might mean less people have the damn clown car, but then again no as these are crap too.
Wheema
@rashad123us: Haha I feel the exact same way
Samurai I-am-awry
ugh they all suck. Nothing beats tri-tone, which as good as it is, is kind of annoying. I wish I had just one option that wasn’t over 3 seconds and totally ridiculous.
hulahoophugs
My biggest gripe with un-hacked iPhones is the lack of custom tones.
You can change them without jail breaking, but it’s a hell of a procedure, like this one..
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CrispyAardvark
And yet, still none that won’t embarrass you.
ithrewitontheground
Positively rambunctious!
wpc1532
They’re too looooooong!
JLRP1285
Boy listening to all those made me feel like I was watching an episode of Loony Tunes. A bunch of those little songs had that vibe.
Anyway, I’m glad that they’ve got all these new tones out, but none of them really do it for me. I’ll be sticking with “chime” for the foreseeable future.
Samurai I-am-awry
So, Apple must’ve been in a 50′s cartoon/orchestra mood.
Anay Katyal
@Clancycoop: Amen.
CMYKfellow
rashad123us
@Clancycoop: that’s what I was thinking… normally they are 1 or 2 seconds. not 5 or 6.
JoshGlzBrk
I got all excited until I heard them.
The Rural Juror
on the right track at least. only like 3 more years til we can make our own!
kd0h
Those are the most obnoxious notifications I’ve ever heard. I could only make it through half the video.
peesauce
Wow, what a piece of crap. I can’t imagine any sane person using one of those tones.
hypnotik_jello
@UPandB: Yes, I found that out myself about a year ago. I didn’t think that something like this was possible in our time and age.
The_Geek_Greek
They’re all so long and annoying. Be so embarrassing if they went off in a lecture/meeting…
Ko0lHaNDLuKe
I hate to say this, but those ringtone notes for getting a freakin’ TXT messages… are… uh, flamboyant. Not in the good way.
All I can think of is the Scout from Team Fortress 2 screaming “LOOOK AT MEEE!” every time she presses a new one.
Preyfar
sounds like Tom & Jerry
Moe Kalbouneh
Wow I found pretty much all of them obnoxious…
CowZ
They’re almost all way too long. Many of them are also quiet annoying.
SMS ringtones in particular should be short and unobtrusive. The original iPhone SMS tones fit this profile, as do most of the Android tones.
bsoft
They all sound like they were ripped from Disney movies.
It’s time Apple started letting people use their own alert/sms notification sounds – why do they feel like they need to control everything? It’s almost as absurd as Amazon still not letting people set their own wallpaper. If I see James Joyce’s smug little face on my Kindle one more time I swear I’m going to throw him in front of a train.
wætherman
do not want
goodbyebluesky
Why are they so damn LONG?! Txt sound should be like, 2 seconds long. These are ringtones.
Erik_says_this
wow that sucks my android can use custom ringtones for just about anything….
Timothy R. Wessman
Those are annoying as hell.
ChrisGP123
meh.
UliKunkel
Why are they all so long? I personally find most of them annoying as well.
A lethal combination.
Clancycoop
Yesssssssssss!
It took a few updates but we got there!
bazookafox is the hipster of whitenoise
Wait, you can’t use your own sounds for SMS?
I don’t even know what to say.
UPandB
100% awful.
hmmcolor