You might think you have the coolest cell phone in the world, but if your ring tone is from the last century, you're dead in the water before you even get to begin. Nowadays the coolest cell phones need the ability to blast out the coolest ring tones and all the latest MP3's.



Your cool cell phone is first and foremost a device for communication right? Wrong - today communication takes a back seat to all the other features that are crammed in to the phone.

A cell phone with many great features is an absolute must, but when it is only capable of playing if you are lucky polyphonic ring tones, then the phone can never truly be a cool one.

Not so long ago the only music you could get on your cell was a monophonic ring tone.

Pretty soon, most phones had the ability to play polyphonic tones plus as much of your favorite music as you could fit in your memory.

The switch from monophonic to polyphonic was done so that companies could charge more for their phones than their competitor's could. Of course this led to a huge demand and sparked fierce competition to be able to have the best ring tones available.

It is just a natural chain reaction that would eventually lead from the MP3 cell phones of yesterday to the full out multimedia cell phones of today that can store up to 40 hours or more of movies on board.

While the choice of service provider might influence your purchase, it's more likely that you will opt for the phone with the most features for the lowest price.

Many cell providers have resulted to selling the latest and greatest cell phones for mere pennies in exchange for a locked in contract period.

If you have yourself a USB cable, you can download any song you want on to your cell. It's anyone's guess what the next big step forward will be in cell phone technology.