When mobile phones are the topic for discussion, probably one of the biggest brand names that will immediately come to mind is Nokia. In fact, Nokia has already been ranked as the biggest mobile phone manufacturer in the world, while all the others are trying to follow as close as possible. This brand from Finland has already proven how it can take mobile phones or cellular phones to the next level, by providing awesome features and combining them with durability and affordability. Nokia mobile phones today has something in store for the fun-loving individual, and can even be tough enough to operate in the corporate environment.

Nokia officially became a cellular phone manufacturer in the 1980's, but before that, the company has already produced car phones and radios for communication, even for military purposes. Among the earliest models of Nokia phones were called the Mobira City Man and the Mobira Talk Man, which were sold in the mid 1980's. Today, Nokia sells billions of mobile phone units worldwide per year. It has even been reported that the sales of Nokia phones beats the combined sales of its rival companies.

When you talk about mobile phone from Nokia, one of the fun features included is the customizability of your ringtones. These days, you can rarely hear people using ordinary beeps or rings for their call or message alerts. Nokia phones are equipped with many capabilities for ringtone options, including monotone, polytone, and trutone. As a matter of fact, the trutone or mp3 tone option has become so popular, that billions of mp3 music phones from Nokia were sold during the first quarter of 2006 alone.

Some Nokia phones that supported monotone were the Nokia 5110 and Nokia 6150. When the Nokia 3210 was introduced, it had a music composer feature that allowed users to create their own monotonic Nokia ringtones. Later on, polyphonic ringtones became available, so call and message alerts had more beat and rhythm, such that they sound just like music from a portable music player. An example of a Nokia phone with polytone is the Nokia 3100.

At present, Nokia phones boast of allowing mp3 files to be played with crystal-clear quality. The Nokia Xpress Music 5300 is among the best selling phones in the year 2007, as it performs perfectly as a mobile phone, but still provides the functionality of a portable music player. Mp3 tones, or trutones, can now be downloaded so that your favorite music artists can be heard whenever you get a call or receive a text message.

The genre and style for ringtones is as diverse as the models of cellular phones available from Nokia. You can select ringtones by artist, or by choosing a music genre, such as pop, rock, country, classical, jazz, and R&B, among many others. You can also select from TV show themes, movie themes, cartoons, and many more. Most of these ringtones are available in monotone, polytone, and mp3 format and you can get them for free. Check out other sites to find out your options for free ringtones for Nokia.