Finding Free Ringtones & Alarm Sounds for Your BlackBerry 10 Smartphone
One of the things that disappointed me about BlackBerry 10 was the extremely limited selection of preloaded ringtones and alarm tones. The lack of ringtones did not hurt as bad as only having three default alarm tones. First I thought I would port over the ringtones I had on BlackBerry 7 but that is for…
Ringtones & BlackBerry 7 Themes Also Make Their Way Into App World
We told you yesterday that RIM was changing things up by starting to offer Adult and Mature rated apps in App World. Now Michelle @CrackBerry noticed that RIM has also added in a new Ringtones category which seems to offer ringtones from a company called Spintones. There are also new themes available through App World…
BlackBerry OS 5.0 Ringtones & Alerts Available in App World
I never really understood why RIM stripped out the classic ringtones and alerts from BlackBerry OS 5.0 when they released OS 6.0. They then capitulated and released a download of the OS 5.0 tones for OS 6.0 users. The thing is they they turned around and released OS 7.0 yet again without the OS…
Easily Get Back The Old Ringtones Missing in BlackBerry OS 6.0
Earlier this year we pointed out a fix for getting all of your old OS 5.0 and older ringtones on your brand new BlackBerry OS 6.0 device. For some reason RIM decided in their infinite wisdom to not include the same ringtones in OS 6.0 as they did in previous BlackBerry 5.0 devices. We had…
Official BlackBerry PlayBook Ringtones Extracted from Simulator
Some savvy developer extracted the ringtones that come bundled in the new BlackBerry PlayBook simulator for all of you who want to give them a spin. I am not sure if the device is meant to ring when your phone does but it does have alert sounds that are new. The files are WAV format…
FAQ: Get Default OS 5.0 Ringtones for your BlackBerry 6 OS
At first I thought thought there were only a few users missing their default OS 5.0 ringtones when they upgraded to BlackBerry 6 on the Torch and other devices. I recently realized at DevCon that even hardcore users are wondering where their ringtones went on their BlackBerry 6 device. It is a really good question…
Giveaway Winners: Ringtone Expressions – Easily Create Ringtones
Ringtone Expressions offered us 30 copies of their new self named app to give away to 30 lucky winners. The contest is now over and the winners can be found after the jump. If you won don’t forget to thank them in the comments! Ringtone Expressions is a cool desktop application that lets you easily…
Judge Rules Royalties for Public Performances of Ringtones is Sham
Back in June we let you know that the ASCAP was suing AT&T for royalties every time a ringtone was played. Their reasoning was that playing a ringtone in public was a “Public Performance” of the music and AT&T owed them for those performances. Luckily the federal judge hearing the case realized this was a…