Silent Ringtone - Can You Hear It?
September 5th, 2006 byJust when you thought ringtones couldn’t get any more ridiculous than the pesky Crazy Frog, enter the silent ringtones.
A silent ringtone has been invented that produces a sound outside of the hearing range of most adults. Kids can now have a silent ringtone on their mobiles that they can use at school to alert them of a call or text message without the teachers hearing it.
Silent ringtones also know as ultrasonic ringtones or the Mosquito ringtone are constructed of sounds above a certain frequency usually 16kHz but go as high as 18kHz. The idea being that kids should choose the highest frequency they can hear as they are less likely to be detected by adults.
The other option for them was to have their phones on vibrate but when your phone vibrates it makes a noise that everyone can hear.
Can you hear it? Try it here.
Now I can’t hear the silent ringtone, I guess I’m too old and whilst I don’t agree with kids having mobile phones in classrooms the silent ringtone could go a long way to solving the noise pollution of other annoying ringtones that they may have on their phones instead.
So I for one am all for silent ringtones so all you kids out there, go get one now!
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5 Comments Add your own
1. Anthony | October 27th, 2006 at 7:21 am
Wer can u get the silent ringtone witout putting in ur number and getting a subscription
by downloading it 2 the computr
2. noddy | March 29th, 2007 at 10:49 am
plz help me ever since i downloaded the silent ringtone to my phone it automatically takes all my creditz which is why i cant top my phone up plz help!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3. Philip Nicosia | March 29th, 2007 at 11:32 am
If you are receiving text messages that take your credit just reply to the text message saying STOP and that should stop them from coming through.
4. Mitchell | April 28th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Try a program called NCH tone generator, its a free trial, and you can set the hz its really cool!
5. myro | November 28th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
I’m 28 and can hear up to 17khz. at the school I work for we have taken steps to combat this. We have placed lights that react to telephone signals around the room and can now see if a phone is “chattering”. Think of those santa hats that flash when you get a call. that type of thing.
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