Nokia Arabic Ringtone Origin

[Glynis Waughtal]

The Nokia tune is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, composed in 1902 by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Trrega.[1] It has been associated with Finnish corporation Nokia since the 1990s, becoming the first identifiable musical ringtone on a mobile phone; Nokia selected an excerpt to be used as its default ringtone.[2]

The Nokia tune first appeared on the Nokia 2010 released in 1994, under the name ringtone Type 5, showing that it was just one of the normal ringtones. The tune's original name varied in the ringtone list, listed as Type 13 on some phones, or Type 8 on others. In December 1997 with the introduction of the Nokia 6110, ringtones were each given a specific name, and the tune received the name "Grande valse". Some later Nokia phones (e.g. some 3310s) still used Type 7 as the name of the Nokia tune.[6] In 1998, "Grande valse" was renamed to "Nokia tune" and effectively became Nokia's flagship ringtone.

The Nokia tune has been updated several times, either to take advantage of advancing technology or to reflect musical trends at the time. The first polyphonic MIDI version of the Nokia tune, created by composer Ian Livingstone[7] (often mistaken as being Thomas Dolby's work),[8] was introduced in 2001 with the release of two South Korea-exclusive devices, the Nokia 8877 and the Nokia 8887. The Nokia 3510, released in 2002, was the first globally released phone to include this version, using Beatnik's miniBAE technology. The Nokia 9500 Communicator in 2004 introduced a realtone recorded piano version. A guitar-based version was introduced with the Nokia N78 in 2008, reflecting the popularity of nu-folk at the time.[3]

The Nokia N9 in late 2011 introduced a new version, which was created by in-house composer Henry Daw. This version uses a marimba for its melody, and was intended to be genre-neutral.[9] The same year, a contest titled Nokia Tune Remake was held on the crowdsourcing website Audiodraft.[10] The winning entry was a dubstep version, which was shipped on many Nokia phones from 2012 to 2013 alongside the regular Nokia tune. Another updated version of the Nokia tune was introduced in 2013, built on the same principles as the 2011 version. In 2018, a new version was introduced on HMD Global's Nokia 1 and 7 Plus, and remains in use. This was also created by Henry Daw; it was intended to be an evolution of the 2013 version while retaining similar instrumentation.[11]

Other versions have been produced for specific models. These include a slow piano version for the Nokia 8800 by Ryuichi Sakamoto,[12] and a slow guitar version for the Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition by Brian Eno.[13]

In December 1999, Jimmy Cauty, formerly of The KLF, and Guy Pratt released the mobile telephone-themed novelty-pop record "I Wanna 1-2-1 With You" under the name Solid Gold Chartbusters which heavily samples the theme.[14] It was released as competition for the UK Christmas number one single but only got to number 62.[15] The release of this song prevented the Super Furry Animals from releasing their song "Wherever I Lay My Phone (That's My Home)" from the album Guerrilla as a single, on the grounds that it was also based on a mobile phone theme.[16][17]

The Indonesian rock band The Changcuters included the segment of the Nokia tune on their song "Parampampam". The song was included on their 2011 album Tugas Akhir and was also featured on the Nokia X2-01 for the Indonesian market.[22]

We do this mainly to bypass proxies, especially transparent proxies - your ISP will often have a transparent proxy intercepting traffic on port 80, which you may be unaware of. Such proxies can cause various anomalies, like poor throughput/outages, DNS resolving problems, and even duplicate submissions. Additionally we can offer better performance ourselves via direct access to, say, port 5567.

You can fall back to port 80 if you have firewall-related problems connecting to us (but we recommend that you rather take the time to allow outgoing access to ports 5567 and 7512 via your firewall). To do so, simple remove :5567 (or similar) from the URL.

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0042 is in hexadecimal, which is 66 in decimal, and corresponds to ASCII 66, or B. Do not leave out the zeros from this example. This example should display correctly on almost every phone, but will appear no different to you than just sending BCD as a normal SMS.

If you need to find out how to encode smart messages (ringtones, operator logos, picture messages, etc) for Nokias, the best place to look is at www.forum.nokia.com. You can create an account for free. Log in and go to Developer Home: Resources: Technologies: Messaging: Short Messaging: Support / FAQs: Smart Messaging FAQ. This is the best resource we know of.

into a WBXMLWBXML is a binary representation of an XML document. The specification is here, but you should rather look at a library to do the encoding for you, e.g. libwbxml - a C library for creation and decoding WBXML, plus command-line programs. An encoder will allow you to automatically generate the WBXML from XML

Note that the example above excludes an si-id, in which case the si-id defaults to the href parameter. A mobile will typically overwrite an already-stored message which exists with the same si-id (which in this case above means the same href, effectively). At the same time, it will typically notify the user that a new push was received, but be aware that some handsets might not do so.

These can be implemented similar to vCards (see above). However, you will almost certainly need to send at least two concatenated messages for a typical VCalendar entry.See the Nokia Smart Messaging FAQ (at www.forum.nokia.com) for examples.

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