Its possible on pretty much any AU, TuKa, DoCoMo or JPhone model
to make a wav file into a ringtone. A few years ago, afew DoCoMo models,
and the new JPhones were the only ones. Then AU joined later with qcp, then
cmx could in later models (I think), and now SMAF is the way to go.
AU is still lagging behind a bit (though they market themselves as if they are
in the lead and do a darn good job of it). But the technical gap has gotten very small.
Most of the technology is not in AU's hands but the manufactures like
Fujitsu, Sharp, NEC, Toshiba and so on. So its a little misleading to
say that AU is lagging behind .... rather the small parts of AU that AU
runs are lagging behind what JPhone and DoCoMo are doing. (aka EZweb
and the Java platform that runs on their phones in each generation is
buggier and bulkier than the DoCoMo and JPhone equivalents).
And I could droll on for hours about the little niggly details and why I think
they are behind.
The SMAF ringtones in fact are controlled by none of the above. Yahama
develops that technology.
Chaku uta is quite old now (about 1 year I think) but I haven't seen it catching on yet.
Any Chaku-uta statistics out there?
Stuart Woodward wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:01:27 +0100
> "Mayall, Steve" <Steve.Mayall@informa.com> wrote:
>
> > has the market become so saturated that the value of ringtones is now
> > diluted?
>
> <upshields type="japanese language lawyers">
>
> Right now the latest thing in Japan is "chaku-uta." (Ringtones are
> called "chaku-mero" from "chakushin" (arrival signal?) plus "mero" melody.
> So "chaku-uta" are ring tones that play a song ("uta") usually a clip
> from a well known band. Once this is popular I think most people will
> dump their tinny melodies for the real thing.
>
> </upshields>
>
> However on Au phones, at least, it is possible with a bit of
> jiggery-pokery to make your own mmf file from a wav file and mail to
> yourself so you can then have any sound you like as ring tone, though
> doing so with copyrighted material would cause you burn in the fires of
> hell for all eternity. :-).
>
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