soungalo in the world!: Soundslikeaphone Releases Their First Ever Album of "RINGTONES" on iTunes

Soundslikeaphone Releases Their First Ever Album of "RINGTONES" on iTunes

Album Release Coincides with iPhone release on ATT/Cingular

June 28, 2007

Soundslikeaphone Ringtones Pay Tribute to Classic Film/TV Characters

Benny - Benny Hill
Bugsy - Bugsy Malone (This is the phone used in the show)
Capt Mainwaring - 1940's 'Dad's Army' Phone
Frank - Both Frank Finlay from "Bouquet of Barbed Wire" and Frank Spencer
Genie - The shape of this phone is that of a lamp
Bogart - Humphrey, of course.
Bacall - Lauren, of course.
Ms Peel - Emma Peel from the Avenger
Rhoda - This is the pancake phone from the American Sitcom 'Rhoda'

QUOTES

"Wben we started in the UK, we started a backlash - lots of people like us wanted their phone to sound like a phone. Apple's iPhone is great news. It offers an alternative to the current phone market. Soundslikeaphone tones on iTunes are an alternative to ringtone madness - the perfect accompaniment to the new iPhone."

- Andrew Misingham, Soundslikeaphone.com Creator

(Boston, MA) - Coinciding with the release of the iPhone, Soundslikeaphone is bringing the first album of ringtones to iTunes. Originally released only in the UK to restore sanity to a world gone insane due to the likes of the Crazy Frog and other annoying mobile phone ringtones, Soundslikeaphone is happy to bring mobile tranquility and respectability to the USA.

Taking you back to the golden age of telephony, where a phone went "ring ring" and not "ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong", the album of Soundslikeaphone ringtones names their classics after famous characters: Benny (British 1960's Type 700 Phone), Bugsy (Hand Cracked 1911 Bell Phone), Capt Mainwaring (1940's Type 221), Frank (1960's Trimphone), Genie, Humphrey (1920's Candlestick Phone), Lauren (1920's Candlestick Phone), Miss Peel, Monty P, and Rhoda (1980s "pancake" phone).

Originally recorded from real telephones at the Darvel Telephone Museum in Ayrshire, Scotland, and ranging from modern phones and recent classics like GPO trimphones all the way back to a 1911 hand-cranked bell, Soundslikeaphone has created ringtones that won't make you cringe if your phone goes off when you're in (or out of) a meeting.

Andrew Missingham, director of a creative consultancy based in London, created the ringtones because he was irritated by the surge in popularity of novelty ringtones such as musical tunes and even animal noises.

The rings are available from iTunes (specifically for the iPhone market) as well as at a variety of other sources that serve all major US mobile carriers, including MyxerTones, Music.com, and MyNumo. More information about the ringtones and links to all sites mentioned in this release are available on the Soundslikeaphone MySpace page.

Soundslikeaphone.com will make a donation from every ringtone towards the running costs and growth of the Darvel Telephone Museum.