WP7 & iPhone Ringtone limitation

[Nataku4ca]

Hi Guys,

My gf got her iphone last sat (and i got my lumia 800 =] ) and i just got my sister into WP7

I know there is the limit of 40sec or less and 1mb max for the file, they asked a fairly interesting question that i couldn't answer and have not been able to find a good answer at all

does any one know why the limitation is in place? i can only think of two possibilities

1. copyright/carrier issue
2. for better performance

my sister came from android so she went into rage mode on me because she couldn't figure out how to do it right =..= it was pretty easy after i slap... i mean showed her how to do it lol

oh... i couldn't stop my gf from going iphone... whole danm family went into zealot mode going to have to brag about my phone for awhile and see if they'll convert next round

 

[enahs555]

Your phone can only ring at maximum for 40 seconds.
If they did not limit it, there would be people using 20mb mp3s, which would be a performance and battery waster.

 

[ipollesion]

Yeah if there wasn't a limit on the audio for ringtones you would hear the tone going on an on, this would be the case for text tones as the tone if it were a song would continue to play and it would get annoying pretty quick.

Although Windows Phone 7 Ringtones are something interesting, I actually wrote a post about them and on the iPhone Windows Phone 7 Stock Sounds Ringtones, Alerts, Alarms and Notifications Download - How-to Tech

 

[kylej1050]

Text tones I could see going on forever but usually phones just start playing the file and it goes til it's done. I've never seen a phone that lets the ringtone go past the call being answered or going to voicemail so it'd make no sense to have a 3 minute mp3 for your ringtone since you'd never hear anything past the first part anyways.

Assuming you have VM set up. I have it disabled on my account so my phone rings until I hit ignore or ~1.5 minutes pass and Sprint hangs up on the caller.