Nokia has just announced a winner for their recently launched Nokia Tune competition, in the person of an Italian DJ, Valerio Alessandro Sizzi. His ”Nokia Tune Dubstep Edition,” a 24-second version of ...

If you owned a cellphone in the late '90s, you know exactly how the Nokia Tune sounds, and the origin story of one of the ...

When Audrey Arbeeny addresses an audience, she likes to play a game called Name This Sound. Arbeeny, founder of the New York-based sonic branding firm Audiobrain, plays several jingles in a ...

Nokia has revealed the winner of its Nokia Tune contest, the company's search for a 21st century update to the classic "diddle-uh-duh" jingle familiar from millions of handsets, and it's quite the ...

How do you know when a person owns a Nokia mobile phone? It’s when you hear the distinctive startup and ring tone that has been included in the Finnish mobile giant’s handsets since 1994. While Nokia ...

Nokia’s hunt for a new modern ringtone for its upcoming smartphone handsets has come to an end, after Italian DJ Valerio Alessandro Sizzi recorded, submitted and won the Nokia Tune competition with a ...

To accompany its new Microsoft operating system, Nokia has offered up $10,000 to the person who can create an iconic new jingle to serve as the handset maker’s next go-to ringtone. In addition to the ...

Last month, Nokia announced a contest to remake its iconic ringtone, and we have a winner: for better or worse, "Nokia Tune Dubstep Edition" will be preloaded on more than 100 million handsets the ...

September 2001. My world shifted, and I’m not sure why. My thoughts—sure, call them that—were thrown asunder by nightmares of planes and jihad. But as a 13 year old, transferring Jay-Z songs onto an ...

The original Nokia ringtone has been voted the most nostalgic sound of the 80s, 90s and 00s. In a survey of 2,000 adults, the iconic tune from 1994 beat other sounds like cassette tapes being rewound, ...

It's every performer's nightmare: a cell phone ringing in the middle of a performance. But Slovak violist Lukáš Kmit surprised everyone with his reaction to the Nokia mobile phone ringtone going off ...