Naks Mobile – Launch of Filipino Mobile Entertainment Service in the United States
Wilton, Conn. (ContentDesk via ContentDesk Direct) February 13, 2006 -- Next Ideas Inc. today announced the launch of Naks Mobile, the first mobile entertainment service for Filipinos living in the US. Naks Mobile publishes wireless entertainment content and applications, including ringtones, ringbacks, wallpapers, animated screen savers, games, music, infotainment, news and community services. Naks Mobile is tailored to meet the tastes and attitudes of all Filipinos, whether they are a nurse from Cebu, an office worker from Quezon City, a nanny from Pagadian, a seaman from General Santos or a retiree from Baguio.A simple pricing plan, easy payment method and streamlined ordering process are expected to help attract mobile consumers.
The service will be initially available to Cingular and T-Mobile USA subscribers throughout the US. Consumers can access the service through the Naks Mobile website or SMS using the services short code 98556. For more information, please visit the Naks Mobile website at www.naksmobile.com.Filipinos represent the third largest ethnic group in the US with over 3.2 million people. With an average household income in excess of $65,000, the spending power of US Filipinos is estimated at over $35 billion per year.About Next Ideas Inc.Next Ideas Inc. is a publisher of wireless entertainment content and applications, including ring tones, ringbacks, images, infotainment, games and other content.
Next Ideas content and application portfolio is based on original and licensed intellectual properties. Next Ideas distributes its content through wireless carriers in the United States. For additional information or to learn about other services, please visit our websites at www.nextideasmobile.com and www.naksmobile.com.? 2006 Next Ideas Inc. All rights reserved. Next Ideas, Naks Mobile and other trademarks, service marks and logos are registered or unregistered marks of Next Ideas Inc..
What Are Ringtones
What is Ringtones?Ringtones are melodic sounds a cellular or cell phone makes when an incoming call or message arrives. Since cellular phones are significantly more sophisticated than landline phones, ringtones can be personalized to suit the owner's personal taste. A variety of ringtones have appealed to consumers, increasing handsets saleability.Why use RingtonesThere are a number of reasons consumers use distinct ringtones. 1) Distinguish Callers - Advanced feature sets allow for different sounds to signify different callers.2) Identification - When you are in a meeting and a phone rings you will know if its yours without having to look3) Fun - Lets face, having a cell phone with personality and character is appealing to general consumersTypes of RingtonesThere are typically two different types of ringtones: monophonic ringtones and polyphonic ringtones. Monophonic RingtonesMonophonic tones are simple tunes, most commonly compatible with today's cell phones.
The majority of...
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Free Polyphonic Ringtones
What would the world be without cell phones? They make doing business and being connected so much easier than in the past. This came to be the understanding of the many cell phone service-providing companies. This very fact led to the development of custom ringtones. The ringtones that we have on our cell phones are the children of the latest techniques in scientific discovery.
Depending upon the phone we use and the various types of service we have, there are different types of ringtones available. The two most common are the monophonic and the polyphonic ringtones.
The monophonic ringtones are usually not that attractive and do not provide the user with actual feeling of listening to music. They are mostly used for the standard ringtones that are set by default on each one's cell phones. But if you want to get a good feeling for your favorite song as a ringtone, then what you need is a polyphonic ringtone. Moreover, today many of the cell phone providers offer free...
Free Polyphonic Ringtones
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Sprague Brothers Hits Now Available as Ringtones
New Ringtone store featuring music from rock'n'roll artists opened by Wichita Falls Records. Wichita Falls Records Announces Ringtones Availability; All of your favorite Sprague Brothers songs from our label on your cell phone!Today Wichita Falls Records announced immediate availability of ringtones from all of its artists, enabling customers to download from their new ringtone store Wichita Falls Mobile.tripod.com . The availability of ringtones from such well-received and popular albums as The Savage Sprague Brothers, has spurred a frenzy of cell phone users downloading rock'n'roll ringtones like never before. "Our ringtone store is experiencing unprecedented deployment success," said Lee Holley, director of A&R at WFR. "It has already surpassed our highest expectations, and we expect to hear our music playing on cell phones everywhere." Wichita Falls MobileMany customers have already begun downloading the ringtones.
We hope to spread the word about our new ringtone store and...
Sprague Brothers Hits Now Available as Ringtones
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Mobile Phone Ringtones
Mobile phone ringtones are like hot cakes for the youngsters, the market is huge, estimated world wide sales of $ 2.5 Billion per year. The cost of a mobile phone ringtone ranges from ?1.99 to over ?10. Most singers and performers provide rights for their melodies to be converted to ringtones versions. Survey shows that about 26% of mobile phone owners downloaded at least once a ringtone. Many people downloading more than one as you can customise and set the phone to play different ringtones for a specific caller.
For instance if your mum is calling the mobile phone will play a certain ringtone and another one for dad and for your girl friend a different one so you don't have to guess who is calling you, it is totally personalized per caller.
There are four types of ringtones:
* Monophonic ringtones play a melody of a song one note at a time, with no harmonies.
* Polyphonic tones add harmonies to the song.
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Silansys joins Texas Instruments OMAP? Developer Network to Provide Advanced Polyphonic Sound Synthesis
Silansys Technologies Ltd (www.silansys.com), a leading developer of embedded multimedia firmware and silicon for mobile devices, today announced that it has become a member of Texas Instruments Incorporated's (TI's) OMAP? Developer Network, joining a group of leading applications developers driving the next generation of multimedia applications for wireless devices.The highly innovative Silansys MoMedia audio solution performs high quality, high polyphony sound synthesis, especially targeted at low-to-mid ranged phones.
The extremely low MIPS, low memory architecture now enables high polyphony sound synthesis through software for low-cost platforms with baseband processors and delivers ultra-low power in handsets with high performance applications processors.
Utilizing TI's industry-proven multi-core OMAP architecture, MoMedia gains an additional dimension of performance optimization, enabling an extremely...
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Electric Pocket’s Ringo Mobile Ringtone Manager Now Available for Treo 700w Smartphones
Wye Valley UK (ContentDesk via MobilityNewswire) March 8, 2006 -- Electric Pockets popular Ringo Mobile ringtone manager is now available for users of the Treo 700w smartphone devices based on Windows Mobile 5.0.Ringo has long been the best-selling ringtone manager for Treo smartphones based on the Palm OSand more recently devices based on Pocket PC Phone Edition. Ringo has received acclaim for the ease with which users can customize their phones with personal ringtones and SMS tones. Ringo Mobile now brings these features to the Treo 700w.Ringo Mobile enables users to easily assign MP3, WMA or WAV format ringtones to every incoming call they receive on their Treo or Pocket PC phone. Ringtones can be assigned to individual callers or to groups of callerssuch as business, family, or friends. Setting a sound clip as a ringtone is as simple as copying it to their Treo and linking it to individuals or groups.
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Electric Pocket’s Ringo Mobile Ringtone Manager Now Available for Treo 700w Smartphones
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ToneGuys Launches Gofresh Ringtones in the USA
Boston, MA (ContentDesk) May 28, 2004 -- Gofresh ringtones are now available to cell phone users in the USA. Under an agreement signed earlier this month with ToneGuys, Gofresh will provide it's unique next-generation ringtones developed by its own mobile music label "Gofresh Mobile Music" for download at www.toneguys.com. "We are very excited to offer this original content for the first time in the USA", said Todd McKay, ToneGuys' managing director. "Who wants an overplayed Top 40's ringtone when you can really personalize your phone with original Gofresh content? " he asked. "Put one of these tones on your phone and you'll be turning some heads next time you get a call"."The launch of Gofresh products in the USA is an important step in our international expansion plans.
With ToneGuys as partner we are able to further pursue our policy of selling high quality content at a reasonable price via high-level technical...
ToneGuys Launches Gofresh Ringtones in the USA
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