Free ring tones can be found all over the internet, and even some of the better real tones are amazingly inexpensive. Your problem, having found one that you like, is how to get it onto your mobile phone, and how to get it activated once you have it there. That process is much simpler than you might believe. Many people purchase ringtones, and then find difficulty uploading them to their cell phone: don't let that be you. It's not difficult. Here's how.

First you need the dongle, unless your computer already has Bluetooth. An increasing number of new laptops are being launched with Bluetooth included, but if not then you need the dongle. It's nothing more than a device that plugs into you USB port in fact it looks just like a USB memory stick. Its purpose is to interface your computer with another Bluetooth device (i.e. your cell phone).

You will first have to install the dongle using an installation disk. That is just as simple as installing a printer or other device. Once that's been done, you have to activate it, and then switch your mobile phone to the Bluetooth option. You will likely find that somewhere on your 'settings' section, or equivalent. Each different make of cell phone has its own way of naming these things, but you are basically looking for Bluetooth, or the Bluetooth logo (two white triangles in the form of the letter B, on a blue background).

When you find it, activate it, and then find on your computer the downloaded free Bluetooth ringtones that you want to transfer to your cell phone. You can copy that and then use your computer to browse the folders on your mobile: when you do that it will be just like browsing any other folder structure. Once you have found where your ringtones are stored, just copy over those that you want to transfer.

Bluetooth will allow you to do that just as if you were transferring files from one folder or directory in your computer to another. You can either copy and past, as suggested above, or drag and drop the latter being particularly useful if you have two screens, or are using two windows on your computer, one for the PC and the other for your mobile phone.

That's all there is to it! It is as easy as that. The hardest job of the lot will be to get the free Bluetooth ringtones to transfer. In fact they are not really Bluetooth ringtones people only call them that because they use Bluetooth to upload them to their cell phones. They can be any type of ring tone, such as realtones or free MIDI ringtones. However, it doesn't matter what they call if they are free, and there are lots of free offers if you know where to look - and how to transfer them from your PC to your mobile!