Types of ringtones

• Real music ringtones - Real Music ringtones are the newest incarnation of the ringtone, capable of playing actual music, including the vocals and all accompaniment. Full Music ringtones can be found in MP3, WAV, QCP, or AMR formats.
• Polyphonic - A polyphonic ringtone is similar to a monophonic tone in that it can only play a tone-based copy of a song, however a polyphonic ringtone is capable of playing more complex music.
• Monophonic - This is the old type of ringtone, tones are only played one at time hence monophonic.

Where to download free reatone ringtones

When looking for ringtones it is always a good idea to know what to know what type of tones your cellphone can play, this will save you a lot of time.

The best place to download realtones without charge, totally, 100% free ringtones is from mobie sharing communities. This sites let's user download and upload their mobile contents. They support all mobile contents from, video, ringtone, screensavers, themes, wallpapers and mobile games. All you have to do is signup for a membership which is free and then enter your phone model. All the downloads available for your phone model will then be available to you. We have listed some of the best mobile sharing community in the web.

Mobile Sharing Communities

• gallery.mobile9.com - Download free mobile downloads (themes, ringtones, games, videos & more) for Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola & other mobile phones.
• www.mobango.com - Your one-stop-shop for mobile ringtones, images, mobile photos and downloads.
• www.funformobile.com - The best place to get FREE ringtones, wallpapers, videos and games on your mobile phone. Huge selection of FREE ringtones, wallpapers, videos and games.

Apart from the popular free downloads, This sites also provides news coverage, phone database, moblog and a whole lot more.