Customise your Mobile Phone for Free
Hundreds of companies now offer you the ability to pay to
download Games, Ringtones, Mobile Phone Wallpapers, Mobile Phone
Screensavers, Operator Logos and more to your Mobile Phone.
Charges can vary but wherever you purchase them from, the costs
will rapidly mount up if you like to update your phone often.
There are utilities available via the web that will allow you to
create your own mid files (Ringtones) and you can use any paint
package to resize your favourite picture into the format of your
phone to use as a background (for example the Nokia 7210 can
display jpeg pictures of 128 pixels by 128 pixels).
Also, websites such as www.c4rlh.com offer access to a
multitude of free mobile phone files that you can save to your
PC.
Once you have either created or downloaded the appropriate files
to your PC, you can then transfer them yourself to your mobile
phone by using one of the following methods;
(Please note - Refer to your phone manual to ensure that the
file you are uploading is compatible with your phone.)
Data Cable - Via a data cable from your PC to your phone.
BlueTooth - Via a Bluetooth connection from your PC to your
phone.
InfraRed - Via an infra-red connection from your PC to your
phone.
The latter options are the most common as most phones now come
with either infra-red or Bluetooth connectivity as standard. If
your PC does not already have built-in infrared/Bluetooth, you
can buy one for it quite cheaply.
You then use the software provided with your infra-red/Bluetooth
adapter or download software from your Phone manufacturers
website to transfer any compatible image, ringtone or freeware
game that you have on your PC to your phone.
If you like to customise your Phone regularly then this will
save you a lot of money....
.....that you can put towards the next new fancy Mobile Phone
that comes along.
TIP - If you do not have the ability or inclination to use the
free methods available then it is worth noting that you should
only purchase Mobile Phone content using SMS or a Landline as
using a Mobile Phone to ring generally incurs an operator
surcharge.