My Mobi Diet techniques…

Every day it seems there’s more and more stuff available to enhance our mobile lives  …Take my diet, for example…(please!)  

Seriously… I’m on this diet… and every day I’m finding more potential features on my cell phone that I can use to help me succeed to shed the excess lbs… 

Let’s start with my REAL TONE.   Real tones are basically highly personalized sounds that alert you when your cell phone rings… They can be funny sounds or music clips, famous quotes or funny jokes, or any personalized recording of your choice.  For example, right now, every time the phone rings, I have a snarky recording of me reminding myself: “Keep your head out of the fridge fat-head!” A little self humiliation in my real tone might be just the thing I need to keep my calorie count down!  I’ll let you know how it goes - 

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What the heck is a ‘real tone’ anyway?

A lot of people are confused about the difference between ringtones and realtones. Until recently, I was too! In a nutshell the polyphonic ringtones are in the .midi file format and realtones are .mp3. So, while the polyphonic and monophonic ringtones create computerized sounding music, realtones are in the song format that most of us put on our portable music players, .mp3. Basically, it is just a snippet of a song. So now, that we all have our ’song’ snippets on our phones, we just generalize and call everything “ringtones” or even as we use it on mymobi, just “tones” for short…. But remember, if you are buying a poly ringtone, you are buying a special .midi version of the song that is compatible with most cell phones. Check your phone, but you probably won’t want to settle for .midi version if you can have the better quality realtone .mp3 snippet. Either way - enjoy!