With voice calls taking a back burner, how much effort do you put into setting up a custom ringtone on your smartphone?

The sound made by the phone network to indicate a ringing phone on the other end of the line. In other words, the sound you hear when you call someone else; and the sound someone else hears when ...

It generated the ringing tones that were sent down the telephone line to get people to pick up the phone. An operator would have manually sent the ringing tone to a particular line with a switch.

An curved arrow pointing right. If you want to make your favorite song your ringtone, Apple charges $1.29 in the mobile iTunes store. Here's how to do it for free. Produced by Matthew Stuart ...