Free nokia ringtones download - Ring tone type & Ring tone formats

Free Nokia ring tones for your mobile phones -
Before trying to download mobile ringtones you should consider the following points

Types of ring tones
Monophonic
A monophonic ring tone is simply a series of notes, one musical note at a time.
Polyphonic
A polyphonic ring tone can consist of several notes at a time. The first polyphonic ring tones used sequenced recording methods such as MIDI. Such recordings specify what synthetic instrument should play a note at a given time, and the actual instrument sound is dependent upon the playback device.
Truetone
A truetone (also known as "realtone", "mastertone", "superphonic ringtone" or "audio recording") is simply an audio recording, typically in a common format such as "MP3", AAC, or WMA, and represents the latest evolution of the ring tone. Truetones, which are often excerpts from songs, have become popular as ring tones.

Ring tone formats

1. AAC: Some phones like the Sony Ericsson W810i support ring tones in ".m4a" AAC format. The iPhone supports ring tones in ".m4r" AAC format.
2. eMelody: Older Ericsson format.
3. iMelody: Most new phones that don't do Nokia's Smart Messaging are using this format.
4. KWS: Kyocera's ringer format.
5. MID / MIDI: Popular sound format.
6. Morse code: Text files with a .MORSE extension get converted into morse code songs.
7. MOT: An older ringer format for Motorola phones.
8. MP3: Some phones support ring tones that are mp3 format.
9. Nokia / SCKL / OTT: Nokia Smart Messaging format. Nokia phones can receive ring tones as a text message. Ring tone tools can create these text messages. This allows anyone with a compatible phone to load their own ring tones in without a data cable. There are other phones besides Nokia that use this.
10. PDB: Palm database. This is the format used to load ring tones on PDA phones such as the Kyocera 6035 and the Handspring Treo.
11. PMD: Format co-created by Qualcomm and Japanese company Faith which can include
12. MIDI, sampled audio, static graphics, animation, text, vibration and LED events
13. QCP: File format generated by Qualcomm PureVoice software.
14. RTTTL: A popular text format for ring tones.
15. RTX: Similar to RTTTL with some advanced features. Also the octaves are different on RTX.
16. Samsung1 & Samsung2: Samsung keypress format.
17. Siemens Keypress: Can create and read in a Siemens text file format.
18. Siemens SEO: Siemens SEO binary format.
19. SMAF: Yamaha music format that combines MIDI with instrument sound data (aka Module files). Filenames have the extension "MMF".