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If you are like the majority of cellphone users, you keep up to date with new features that are available for cellphones. The availability of features evolves every year, giving us more choices for the things that we can use our phones for. One of the funest features that has come along in a while is called a different name depending on who you have your cellphone service with. If you don’t know already, I’m referring to ringback tones.

The same feature for T-Mobile is called Caller Tunes, if your carrier is AT&T it is called Answer Tones, and if you use Sprint, you need to look for Call Tones. Regardless of the name, some of you may still not have heard about them. Essentially it is a sound, tone or song that you can set to play for your caller instead of the ringing tone that they would normally hear through their cellphone.

This means that unless you call yourself with someone elses phone, you will never hear your own ringbacks. Once of the coolest features of ringback tones is the way that you can set them up. You can download and use more than one ringbacktone. Just like ringtones, you decide which ringback tone will be played when certain people call you. Or you could play a random song from a playlist, or you could even choose to play certain ringback tones depending on what time of day it is.

So how do get them? How much do they cost? Is it hard to install them? Before I explain all that, I just wanted to use an example that everyone should know by know to make it easier to understand what they really are and how they work. The concept is similar to ringtones, where you go on the internet to find ringtones (basically sound files) and download them to your phone. Now the ringtone is in your phone, and you can choose it from your menu of ringtones to play when when certain people call you, or when your phone has a message etc.

Downloading ringback tones isn’t all that different, but behind the scenes there is a small difference that I’m going to tell you about. First of all, ringback tones will cost you a small amount to enable the service on your phone so that you can program your ringbacks. Then when you download, they are actually downloaded to your account on your wireless carriers servers, not to your phone. This is because the tone doesn’t play on your phone, it is more like an answering machine and needs to be at your cellphone providers end. Once you’ve chosen one or a few ringback tones and downloaded them, you can use your phone to program when you want them to play – either at a certain time, or when certain people call.

Choosing your ringback tones is a fun way to add some fun to your cellphone. Even though you don’t get to hear the ringback tone, it lets you add personality to your phone whenever your family or friends are trying to call you. Although it will increase your cellphone bill by a bit, as long as you don’t go overboard with ringback tones it is totally worth a few extra dollars to personalize your ringbacks.

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