Ringphonic: ringtone jukebox for the BlackBerry from Handango
If you've got one of the BlackBerry 7100 series or the brand spanking new BlackBerry 8700 series and you like music, you should check out the recently released Ringphonic application from Handango. You can pay about $10 per month for access to eight ringtones, about $7 per month for four ringtones or $2 per ringtone on a pay as you go plan. You can read more about it here.
Now, I'm all for companies making money, but seriously... I can buy a song on iTunes for $.99. Why would I buy a ringtone, which I presume is much shorter than a regular song on iTunes, for twice as much? Is the value simply that I can play it on my phone for 10 seconds, in the process bugging everyone on the T with me? So here's an idea for Apple: sell the song AND the ringtone for $1.50 (instead of $.99) and then make a cell phone / smart phone ringtone standard... give the operators a couple cents kickback for every ringtone you sell and undercut every one of these small companies licensing small amounts of music that make ringtones and sell them for $2.00.
December 08, 2005 in Software by ajohnson
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I have been saying this for a while. Why pay 2-3 bucks for a rintone when you can buy the song for 99 cents. The carriers I work with say shutup we have enough people paying that to make it worthwhile. Don't rock the boat. I think a properly priced service would be so successful it would show how poorly the carriers have setup their networks. The loads would kill them. They are much happier with low volume high price. Its about time the public said no.
Posted by: LongFellow on January 12, 2006 4:26 AM