Just experienced the same situation at university today. Right in the middle of a lecture, a phone was ringing really loud and the professor quickly jumped to his suitcase because his thought it was his phone.

I saw that quite often in the busses in Slovakia. It's much more fun when the bus is so full that it takes a while to pick up the phone, giving everybody enough time to dig up their own phones. I can't wait till somebody finds a way to make all phones in a certain location ring at once

Fair enough. It just reminded me of the situation I come across daily on a train: the standard Nokia tune can be heard, and at least ten people immediately start fumbling in their pockets, checking whether it's their phone

Not really - I keep it at home instead of a landline

Kind of defeats the purpose of a phone, doesn't it?

I sure don't.

If I had a cell phone, the ring would just be a series of rip roaring farts. That way if it rang during class or something else important, it would just seem like I have terrible gas.

Oh, so you see no need to be able to identify it whether it's your phone which is ringing?

Mine's always set to "Silent".

We have those commercials too, among the most irritating are the "biker frog" and "sleepy the cute little chick".

Edit: Link. Imagine this popping up during every single commercial break.

Edited by The Mole at 21:21 on January, 29th 2005

I still have my default Nokia tune on my phone. Somehow, I don't seem to understand the reason for all those ring tones.

It came out of nowhere and turned into something which kids get deeply into debt for within weeks

Ugh... This is the first ringtone ad I've ever seen, hopefully it doesn't get that bad. Of course I hardly watch TV and our movie channels are commercial free

but it does sound like a fad the kids would pick up on fast.

Man, how I hate ringtone TV spots! This 'industry' is currently in full swing here. It's not possible to watch a movie on TV without having text like "get this movie's music on your phone now" scrolling through the picture all the time

I just saw a 30 second commercial, and the only thing it was selling was a hamster dance ringtone for your cellphone. Is it just me or are they jumping on the bandwagon a tad late?