NEW YORK (Reuters) – Elvis Presley’s estate is suing Arista Music in Germany for unpaid royalties from ringtones, downloads and apps that feature the icon’s hit songs.

The lawsuit alleges that Arista exploited Presley in a 1973 buyout agreement that left the King with only a small share of the revenue from his sound recordings, Elvis Presley Enterprises said.

It seeks more than $9 million in unpaid royalties dating back to 2002, in addition to a share of future revenue until 2023 when the

Many inexperienced cellular phone users may be overwhelmed by the technical jargon they encounter when trying to purchase or use a new phone. Terms such as monophonic and polyphonic ringtones, GPRS, baud rate and the like are enough to shake many non-technophiles. But in general it’s not that hard and the different Ringtones can be broken down to three different kinds that are in operation now:

1. Polyphonic ring tones make use of multiple tones that are played simultaneously with the instrumental sounds created by guitars, drums, violins, pianos, cymbals and more. This creates a harmonious sound that you will never hear from a monotone. Polyphonic ringtones are able to much more accurately reproduce complex sounds than previous technologies, and, for this reason, phones that can handle polyphonic ringtones are much more popular thantheir monophonic rivals.

2. Real Music ringtones or MP3 Ringtones, are ringtones that came from “real” or actual songs. They use original pieces of music along with lyrics, exactly as the original recording. The format is usually MP3, WAV, WMA, etc. This feature and support for real music ringtones is being built into most new models of almost all mobile phone manufacturers. Real Music Ringtones are also called true tones, real tones, voice tones, full music or MP3 ringtones.

3. The original one tone ringer was the first step towards polyphonic tones, but that ringer, and others like it, was known as a monophonic ringtone. Some of the first cell phones came equipped with a one-tone ringer. Monophonic ringtones were the first ringtone technology to be universally available on cellular phones. While more realistic cell phone audio technologies have recently become available, monophonic ringtones are still popular due to their relative simplicity and wide availability.

Ringtones are available in various forms. They can be hard-coded onto your phone from the factory. In that case, you only have to scroll the phone menu and pick the one you would like to use as your tone. You can also download Ringtones from the web. In this case, you can use a data cable and transfer the files to your phone and then use as MP3 Ringtones. Ringtones on the web can also be downloaded onto phones through WAP services or SMS transfer. You can alternatively use the key press sequence offered by various sites. With this method, you only follow the steps on the web page to accomplish the composition. Lately, you can compose your own tones by pressing the various keys on your keypad to mimic various notes. Generally, the alpa keys on the phone correspond to the tonic solfa and with a little ingenuity you can compose some primary tones.

That’s true! Many Bollywood ringtones have already conquered these mobile gadgets, or is it the other way around? (That these cell phones have captured Bollywood tones?) Whichever the case, Bollywood is a definite hit.

Amuse yourself with this Bollywood hit wave! Whatever your phone make, Bollywood can be part of your persona. Bollywood ringtones catalogs Bollywood’s musical diversity.

You can hear and have Bollywood in a matter of minutes. No frills, no thrill-killers. Simply view the list. Then click on the speaker icon to listen to the vital excerpts of a particular song as sung by their original artists (true tones) or their multi-musical notes versions (polyphonic tones). If a tune hits your taste, download it. Or send it to a friend, a Bollywood gift.

If in case you already have a particular song in mind and would like to hear it, type in that song’s title in the website’s search box (don’t forget to choose your tone category preference – either true tones, or polyphonic tones). Not sure with the title? Narrow down your search by typing in the artist’s name then. Afterwards, a list of his songs appears. Now, you can listen to any songs. Then choose.

Bollywood ringtones does not put any limit on the number of tones you can listen to. Though this might sidetrack you from downloading right away that specific ringtone, such unlimited listening opportunity is actually good and generous. It gives you no time-pressure in making your choice and therefore guarantees personal satisfaction when you finally make that choice. An informed decision is always satisfying, isn’t it?

Bollywood ringtones also features many popular Bollywood songs by various artists. Of course, the more popular the artist, the more of his songs are available for download. Thus, the website features numerous songs by Lata Mangeshkar, India’s nightingale who is a Guinness record-holder (for recording 30,000 songs) and multi-awardee playback singer for half a century.

Other artists whose many songs are available for download include Kishore Kumar, the established actor and playback singer who popularized yodeling in the Bollywood musical stream; Sonu Nigam, the very appealing singer who is fondly tagged as India’s Elvis Presley; Kavita Krishnamurthy, Bollywood’s most popular contemporary singers; and, the late Hemant Kumar, celebrated Bollywood singer and composer in the 50s and 60s. There are many other known artists whose several hits are featured in the website.

Browsing through Bollywood ringtones wealth of Bollywood selections echoes the opulence of this Asian culture whose diversity and exotic musical renditions enthrall and further enrich its global audience. From classical to contemporary, romantic to danceable, and ethnic to pop, Bollywood tones are easily accessible at Ringtones.lt. Bollywoodize your mobile unit now!

Features
There’s no doubt that the Muve Music service is the handset’s biggest draw, although the Vitality is a fully functioning smartphone in its own right. Like most Android smartphones, with support for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, text, e-mail, GPS, and a wide array of Google apps and services, like Maps, Navigator, Gmail, the HTML browser, and so on.

Another multimedia feature is the 3.2-megapixel camera. It takes photos in four resolutions, from a full 3.2 megapixels down to standard VGA (64×480 pixels). There’s a fair amount of settings, such as three focus modes, six scene settings, spot metering, five white-balance settings, a 4x zoom, five color effects, geolocation, and three quality modes. The camera also shoots video in four settings and six color effects. Video length is determined by the available memory, but with a preinstalled microSD card limited to just 1GB storage, there’s not much left over.

Like many Android 2.2 and 2.3 Gingerbread phones for prepaid carriers, the Vitality is without hot spot support. The service often costs an additional $30 monthly subscription fee with post-paid carriers, and cost reduction is a major reason that the hot spot is left out here.

In addition to the more than 250,000 apps available in the Android Market, the Vitality comes preloaded with several programs to get you started. Cricket has added its typical carrier apps, including a backup app, Cricket 411, a My Account shortcut, and Cricket-branded browser and e-mail. There’s also ThinkFree Office and Poynt, for the practical, and Twitter, Uno (demo), and Midnight Pool 2 (demo) for the lighter times.

Performance
We tested the dual-band Samsung Suede (CDMA 850/1900) in San Francisco using Cricket’s roaming network (national coverage courtesy of Sprint, thanks to a partnership ).

Call quality was fair, but not stellar, with low volume on both sides. While we did hear some digital distortion on our end, voice quality otherwise sounded fairly clear and natural. Our friends on the other end also noted the low volume and garbling, and added that we sounded a little hollow and echo-y as well.

Samsung Vitality call quality sample Listen now:

The hollowness and low volume intensified when we switched into speakerphone mode. In a perfectly quiet room with the volume fully raised, we could make out the conversation, but still wanted to increase the volume. We wouldn’t feel confident turning on speakerphone in a noisier environment, or setting the phone farther away than waist-level. Low volume was a problem we also noticed on the Samsung Admire, the Vitality’s twin, though the call quality wasn’t as disappointing.

While it’s no dual-core phone, or even steered by a 1GHz processor, the Vitality’s 800MHz processor did fine, and the phone felt zippier than the Suede, which shares the same processing capacity. We didn’t experience too much lag switching between the Muve Music mode and the Android Gingerbread OS, although there will be some load time. We were also able to swiftly navigate around. The speed with which you’re able to download Muve songs and ringtones will depend on your signal strength, since you won’t be able to download over Wi-Fi, as mentioned above.

The Vitality has a rated battery life of 6.5 hours of talk time and 10.4 days of standby time. (We’re taking that with a grain of salt, since the nearly identical Samsung Admire has a rated battery life of just 3 hours and a standby time of up to 8.3 days, and since the battery seemed to die out quickly during the course of our testing.) According to FCC radiation tests, the Vitality has a digital SAR of 0.53 watt per kilogram.

Conclusion
In the Samsung Vitality, Cricket and Samsung finally bring to market a worthwhile vehicle for Muve Music’s compelling monthly music package. To its credit, the Vitality runs the latest version of Android and has a pretty good touch screen. The handset is attractive enough and easy to navigate, and we appreciate both a hardware and a software path for getting into the music mode. Even without Muve, the Vitality can stand on its own merit, although the audio volume and overall call quality left us wanting more, and the proprietary microSD card hogs most of the external storage space.

For about $200 for the hardware and an additional $65 per month, the Vitality with Muve Music is hardly your most budget phone, although it is off-contract, so there’s no service obligation. Still, those who wind up using the phone as their primary music listening device are in for a good deal at just $10 a month more than Cricket’s usual $55-monthly smartphone rate .

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Having used Windows Phone 7 in my 30 Days With Windows Phone 7 series for an entire week now–first with NoDo running on the HTC HD7S, and now with Mango running on a Samsung Focus–I can say that I am mostly impressed so far. But, I am also building a short, but growing list of things that annoy and frustrate me about Microsoft’s mobile OS.

So far on my list are custom ringtones, capturing screenshots, and syncing contacts. Let’s examine these three pet peeves:

It can’t all be wine and roses. There are some things that bug me about Windows Phone 7. Custom Ringtones

When I hear a phone ring, I want to be able to tell instantly whether it is mine, or the guy behind me in line, or the lady walking past me in the parking lot. I want my ring to be unique and distinctive. With Windows Phone 7, though, I can’t create custom ringtones–or so I thought.

I used to save snippets of MP3s as ringtones with Windows Mobile, and I was pissed off when I switched to the iPhone and found out I couldn’t do that anymore. I actually bought software just to enable me to use my vast library of MP3s to create ringtones for my iPhone.

With this Samsung Focus I have about 40 ringtones to choose from, but they all sound like some sort of cheesy 80′s Casio synthesizer, and none of them are all that unique. By the time I got done testing them out I could barely tell them apart. Why can’t I just make my own ringtones from MP3s like I used to with Windows Mobile?

Well, Windows Phone 7 may not be able to use custom ringtones, but Microsoft has fixed that with Windows Phone 7.5. With Mango, the ringtone must be less than 39 seconds, a file size smaller than 1MB, saved in either MP3 or WMA format, and not copy-protected (meaning no DRM guarding it). I downloaded a free MP3 editor, opened up the m4a song file, clipped the 39-second segment I wanted, and saved it as a new MP3 version. Once you have a song file that meets the criteria, you just have to edit its settings from within the Zune software to change its assigned Genre to “ringtone” and then it shows up as a ringtone on the Mango device.

It is not as simple as I recall it being on Windows Mobile, but then I haven’t touched Windows Mobile in years so my memory of the process may be romanticized to some extent. I seem to recall being able to simply choose any song on the smartphone and assign it as a ringtone. But, it isn’t too difficult and I definitely appreciate being wrong about the lack of custom ringtones with Mango.

Capture Screenshots

I understand that this may not come up very often for average users. I mean, how often do you feel the need to take a picture of what is on your smartphone screen?

But, as a tech writer I need to capture screenshots from my smartphone on a regular basis to use as images for articles I am working on. I can also see some limited purpose for average users as well–perhaps to capture a screen with a new high score on a game to post to Facebook or Twitter.

With my iPhone, I can just hold the power button and the home button simultaneously, and voila! One iPhone screenshot captured. With Windows Phone 7 I have to set the smartphone down, then get my iPhone and take a picture of the screen.

Sync Contacts

I use Microsoft Outlook for my email, contacts, and calendar. My iPhone has synced up with my contacts and calendar in Outlook just fine for years. So, why is it that the mobile OS from Microsoft is incapable of syncing with Microsoft’s own software?

Actually, I think I know the answer. I believe it has to do with wireless syncing over the air. My iPhone relies on being physically connected to my PC (at least until iOS 5 gets here ) so it can sync that information between the PC and the iPhone. Windows Phone 7, though, is capable of updating and syncing without connecting to my PC–which means it needs the data it is syncing with to be available in the cloud somewhere.

Understanding the logic doesn’t make it less annoying, though. In order to make sure that my Windows Phone 7 contacts and calendar are accurate and current, I had to jump through some hoops to make sure my Windows Live account stays synced with Outlook. Then Windows Phone 7 syncs with Windows Live and I’m all set.

The end result is functional, but it seems like a convoluted means of getting information I already have sitting here in my PC, and it means I have one more thing to set up and maintain in order to make sure it all stays in sync .

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A cell phone is ringing sound file is played on a cell phone. The facility was originally planned for people to be able to determine when their phone was ringing when in the company of other mobile phone owners.

Ringtones cell phone are melodic sounds a cellular phone makes when an incoming call or message arrives. Since cell phones are far more sophisticated than most landline phones, cell phone ring tones can be customized to suit personal tastes of the owner. A variety of cellular ringtones has appealed to consumers, increasing the capacity of mobile phone sales.

Popularity of ringtones for cell phones

Mobile ringtones operator logos, have proven a popular method of personalizing phones – newer phones include features that allow users to create their own cell phone ringtones. Many people like to personalize their phones, but there are some annoying ringtones cell phone in public and in some situations.

Many companies have set up businesses selling ring tones of cell phones, television advertising and websites. A critique of the industry is the subscription some companies retain customers, forcing them to cancel your account active or a bill for unwanted messages and ring tones cell sent to them on a weekly basis.

Sales of mobile phone ringtones has also been a tremendous boost to the record industry, earning additional income through royalties.

In newer phones equipped with Bluetooth or PC-link up, however, users can move ringtone for cell created by a computer, their phone, for free. The user can also save themselves or their own cell phone ringtones and place them on the phone.

There are a number of reasons consumers use different Codecs:

Distinguish Callers – Advanced feature sets allow different ringer tones cell phone rings to signify different calls.

Identification – When you’re in a meeting and a phone rings, you’ll know if you love the sound of cell phone

Fun – Although some people find the cell Cell Phone “irritants” have a special appeal for younger phone owners.

Mobile phone ring tone advertising campaigns have become very popular, although they have also attracted much criticism.

An alternative to a cell phone is ringing a vibrator. It is especially useful in noisy environments or in areas where the sound of ringing cell phone could be a concern for people with hearing problems

Types of ringtones cell

There are generally three types of mobile phone ringtones: monophonic ringtones cell phone ringtones cell phone ringtones and cell phone.

Monophonic cell phone

Monophonic cell phone ringtones are simple songs, the most commonly compatible with today’s mobile phones. The vast majority of mobile phones can only make one sound at a time. Monophonic cell phone ringtone is composed of a series of sequential tones at different frequencies.

Polyphonic Cell Phone

Polyphonic ringtones from mobile phones that have the ability to play up to 16 separate tones at once. The combination of mobile phone ring tones creates a harmonic melody. Polyphonic ringtones are more musical than a cell monophonic phone ringtone. Newer phones support polyphonic cell phone ringtones.

Mobile Music

A new version of mobile phone ringtones, often called either music cellular phone ringtones, voice tones, Realtones and True Tones, now use actual pieces of music with all lyrics and music song full support, including singers. They are usually in MP3, WMA, WAV, QCP, or AMR format that can be used as a ringtone cell phone on many Series 60, Symbian or smartphones. Many mobile phone manufacturers are also mobile voice ring tones on most of their newly released phones, including Motorola, Nokia and Sony Ericsson.

Find mobile ringtones and mobile phone compatibility Ringtone

There are a number of sites offering mobile phone ringtones, graphics or even games to download to your cell phone. The sites vary in that some allow you to purchase specific cellular ringtones while others offer subscriptions that allow downloading unlimited ringtones for cell phones. When you find a ringing cell phone be sure to leave first thing you will work with your phone model and the site is respectful of the

Elvis Presley’s estate is suing Arista Music in Germany for $9m (5.6m) in unpaid royalties dating back to 2002 for ringtones, downloads and apps.

It also alleges the label, then called RCA, exploited Presley in a $5.4m (3.3m) 1973 buyout of his catalogue.

It claims that, as a result of the contract, Presley went on to receive $10 (6) a year for worldwide rights to each of more than 1,000 recordings ,and wants a share of future revenue.

Arista’s owner Sony did not comment.

Under the 1973 agreement, RCA bought the rights to Presley’s back catalogue – with the $5.4m fee split evenly between the singer and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, according to legal papers.

The Presley estate says the singer’s annual payment for each song of about $10 is “conspicuously disproportionate” to the revenue RCA made from master recordings.

As well as seeking $9m (5.6m) in unpaid royalties, the estate wants a share of future revenue until 2023 – 50 years after the deal was struck and the year when Arista’s