Customizing your mobile phone is one of the things we enjoy doing. Not only that we are giving our phones that good look, we are also making it as if it is our counterpart. From the hard covers and the backlights up to the different mobile applications installed in our phone, we make it as personal as possible in order to fit it in our standard way of living.

And luckily for us, different wireless specialist especially in wireless mobile application are trying to give different promotions like free downloads of ringing tones in order to lure their potential customers to purchase different mobile phone products and avail of a mobile phone service provider.

Well, let us discuss how we can avail of such freebie for our mobile phones.

Before downloading ringing tones, take into consideration two important factors:

1. Capability of your phone - Although having the same functions of sending SMS (short massaging service) or MMS (multimedia messaging service) and making and receiving voice calls, mobile phones still differs on its capabilities especially in software application.

Mobile designers continue to develop and enhance further certain functions of phones, especially when it comes to mobile photography and video messaging, and ringing tones. In order to find the right ringing tone for your phone, read its instruction manual and know its specification—whether it has melody composer, and other applications needed to avail of free downloads.

2. Format of ringing tones - Ringing tones comes in different formats, depending on the nature of its sound reproduction. Advanced mobile phone models are now configured to receive polyphonic and MP3 tones, which requires high storage of memory. Once you have known your cell phone specification, be aware also of what ringing tone format to install.

Now that you are aware of the factors aforementioned, let us now proceed on how to download free ringing tones. First step is to browse which website offers free downloads of ringing tones.

Once you have found which websites are offering such freebie, determine which is the best downloading procedure is fitted on your phone depending on its capability. There are two downloading procedure available: the key press format and the WAP downloading format:

1. The key press format is the most basic, eventually every mobile phone equipped with melody composer do support this kind of downloading format. The website will posts all the ringing tones in key press format, where you will see notes and the key it corresponds on the keypad of your phone. This will produce a monotone, and it is absolutely free. Just follow the instructions on the homepage and you are in the process of having your free ringing tone played in your phone.

2. The WAP downloading format can be used as a conduit in downloading free ringing tones especially if your phone supports wireless application protocol (WAP). WAP is also called the “wireless web”. Service providers include in their wide array of services this kind of function to facilitate actual download of the tones without actually composing it. If your phone supports this application, it is recommended that you use it for downloading contents.

Once you gained access of your WAP browser, just type the address of the site where you want to download your free ringing tone. From there you follow the instructions in the page, and wait for your tone to be delivered to you through WAP.

However, downloading using this format is not very free of charge— your mobile phone service provider is imposing additional charges if you avail your WAP service. What make it advantageous is that it is relatively cheaper if you will actually download ringing tone directly from your service provider.

It is now up to you if you want to avail of such free download. After all, the directions are just there, waiting for you.