A ringtone or ring tone is the sound made by a to indicate an incoming call or . Not literally a nor an actual (bell-like) ring any more, the term is most often used today to refer to customizable sounds used on phone
AT&T offered seven different gong combinations for the "C" type ringer found in the model landline telephone sets. These gongs provided "distinctive tones" for hearing-impaired customers and also made it possible to distinguish the specific telephone that was ringing when several telephones were placed in close proximity. A "Bell Chime" was also offered, which could be set to sound like a doorbell or to ring like a standard telephone.
While rings, ringers, ring signals, or what might be viewed as the call signals which are the predecessors of ringtones, date back to the beginnings of telephony, modern ringtones appeared in the 1960s and have expanded into tunes and many customizable tones or melodies. Arguably the first ringtone (in the modern sense) appeared in the movie 1966, where the head of the secret government agency had a red phone that connected directly to the President and rang with a distinctive musical ringtone
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