| Downloading Bluetooth ringtones is very easy, | | | | but you are basically looking for Bluetooth, or the |
| assuming that you have a Bluetooth dongle to | | | | Bluetooth logo (two white triangles in the form of |
| enable you to do it. A dongle costs less than $10, | | | | the letter B, on a blue background). |
| and can be used to interface between a PC or | | | | When you find it, activate it, and then find on |
| laptop and a Bluetooth activated cell phone. | | | | your computer the downloaded free Bluetooth |
| Free ring tones can be found all over the internet, | | | | ringtones that you want to transfer to your cell |
| and even some of the better real tones are | | | | phone. You can copy that and then use your |
| amazingly inexpensive. Your problem, having found | | | | computer to browse the folders on your mobile: |
| one that you like, is how to get it onto your | | | | when you do that it will be just like browsing any |
| mobile phone, and how to get it activated once | | | | other folder structure. Once you have found |
| you have it there. That process is much simpler | | | | where your ringtones are stored, just copy over |
| than you might believe. Many people purchase | | | | those that you want to transfer. |
| ringtones, and then find difficulty uploading them | | | | Bluetooth will allow you to do that just as if you |
| to their cell phone: don't let that be you. It's not | | | | were transferring files from one folder or |
| difficult. Here's how. | | | | directory in your computer to another. You can |
| First you need the dongle, unless your computer | | | | either copy and past, as suggested above, or |
| already has Bluetooth. An increasing number of | | | | drag and drop the latter being particularly useful if |
| new laptops are being launched with Bluetooth | | | | you have two screens, or are using two windows |
| included, but if not then you need the dongle. It's | | | | on your computer, one for the PC and the other |
| nothing more than a device that plugs into you | | | | for your mobile phone. |
| USB port in fact it looks just like a USB memory | | | | That's all there is to it! It is as easy as that. The |
| stick. Its purpose is to interface your computer | | | | hardest job of the lot will be to get the free |
| with another Bluetooth device (i.e. your cell phone). | | | | Bluetooth ringtones to transfer. In fact they are |
| You will first have to install the dongle using an | | | | not really Bluetooth ringtones people only call |
| installation disk. That is just as simple as installing a | | | | them that because they use Bluetooth to upload |
| printer or other device. Once that's been done, | | | | them to their cell phones. They can be any type |
| you have to activate it, and then switch your | | | | of ring tone, such as realtones or free MIDI |
| mobile phone to the Bluetooth option. You will | | | | ringtones. However, it doesn't matter what they |
| likely find that somewhere on your 'settings' | | | | call if they are free, and there are lots of free |
| section, or equivalent. Each different make of cell | | | | offers if you know where to look - and how to |
| phone has its own way of naming these things, | | | | transfer them from your PC to your mobile! |