Nokia Ringtones - The Easy Way To Discover Ringtones

Here's a great article I read on Nokia ringtones. Although the mission usually is to locate as many free ringtones as possible, this article on Nokia ringtones wasreally an eye opener for me.

The article started with a general concept. It said you can find a lot of writings about ringtones, the ringtone history and stories about the famous Nokia Tune. Here´s the history of the Nokia Tune.

Later, it continued to give a breif history saying that it all started in the year 1993 and with the launch of Nokias 2100 series. The new Nokia 2100 phones were more advanced than previous Nokias and had more than 20 pre installed ringtones. Anssi Vanjoki (today Nokias Executive Vice President and General Manager of Multimedia) suggested that one of the pre installed ringtones could be Nokias own ringtone. His proposal for the so called Nokia tune was Francisco Tárregas (1852-1909) "Gran Vals". The Gran Vals was also at that time used on Nokia TV-commercials.

Many big names were also brought up in the article, including Anssi Vanjoki gave the notes of the Gran Vals to Lauri Kivinen (Corporate Communications) and tried to sell the idea of a Nokia Tune to him. At first Kivinen thought it quite unnessecary for a phone to have several ringtones. Hadn´t people been doing just fine with one ringtone? Despite skepticism things were developed furher in Oulu, Finland, where Nokia ringtones were developed.

A couple of statisitics on sales were quoted, including in 1994, the Nokia 2100 series phones were launched and the Nokia tune could bee heard all over the world. The Nokia 2100 series was a success story, planning to sell 400 000, but sold 20 million!