Ringtones reflect the inner you

Whether you have Beethoven?s Fur Elise as your ringtone or a techno tune, it speaks volumes about your personality.

Whether you have Beethoven’s Für Elise as your ringtone or a techno tune, it speaks volumes about your personality.

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According to The Age, a new research carried out by Tesco Mobile on 1,000 people suggests that men with rude or animal sounds indicate that they are little more than boys.

Those with the latest chart hits as their personalised tone are supposed to be unreliable, while people who opt for the old-fashioned ringtone look pretentious.

Ageing rockers are believed to pick polyphonic versions of My Generation and More Than a Feeling. If a mobile user has recordings of themselves, their partner or child, they are more than a little self-obsessed.

Standard tones could mean a lack of daring or even an aversion to technology. In fact, 21 per cent of those questioned thought a standard ringtone was “uncool”.

Twenty-five per cent personalised the tone right after buying a phone. Sixty-six per cent had got so annoyed with someone else’s mobile tone that they had either switched off the phone or asked the owner to do so.