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mSpot has announced that it will offer U.S. Cellular® customers access to the mSpot® Make-UR-Tones™ custom ringtone application. The award-winning application allows users to download, edit and purchase custom ringtones directly to their mobile devices. Make-UR-Tones will be a core offering on the new EVDO Network on U.S. Cellular, which has been a partner of mSpot’s since 2006.
The Make-UR-Tones™ application allows customers to select their custom ringtone from a catalog of over 400,000 song titles, one of the largest ringtone collections in North America and about ten times the catalog size of most other legal ringtone services. Songs include those from music labels EMI, Universal Music, Warner Music, Sony Music, Ingrooves and IRIS. mSpot.com also features lyrics, artist bios, recommendations, and more for mobile music fans.
To purchase custom ringtones, customers first select a favorite song from mSpot’s vast song collection, then employ the Make-UR-Tones intuitive editor to select up to 30 seconds of the user’s favorite part of the song. That edited cut can then be downloaded as a high-quality customized ringtone for $2.99.
That sure is a sweet application – I wouldn’t mind getting some of that custom ringtone action! I particularly like the fact you can edit tones, rather than having to stick to the standard edit that someone else has made – often they aren’t very good. Also, ringtones and the other ‘cash-cow’ mobile content types are rapidly heading towards maturity, a phase of the sales cycle where revenues start to drop off – anything that re-invigorates an already proven content type has to be a good thing!
[Via: mSpot]
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Ben Robinson
Ben is a 10+ year veteran of the Mobile industry – starting his career when SMS was a still a relatively new concept for most people (!), he has now consulted on everything from bleeding-edge Mobile content, to the next-gen accessories you might view it on. As a result he has a broad and deep knowledge in numerous areas of Mobile – from network operators to device vendors, to infrastructure and middleware vendors (not to mention content delivery) – and has worked for companies in all of these areas! He is based in the UK, a hotbed of activity for mobile, and recently became a father for the second time – as oppose to in his younger years when he was happy spend time tweaking all manner of mobile devices to 'nth' degree, he now looks for services and hardware that provide the most efficient, compact, and reliable improvements to his already manic life! It’s his opinion that Mobile solutions should be there to help to make your life better – if a particular solution (be it service or device) isn’t doing this, he believes you need to ask the very important question of why you continue to use it... His focus at IntoMobile is mainly on Mobile content, services, and infrastructure, particularly as regards the UK market – and with the occasional look at devices. Additionally, using his extensive experience in the industry, he will provide commentary on the industry at large, with regular (and hopefully thought-provoking) articles.
