polyphonic ringtone

"There's a certain purity about the polyphonic ringtone that will never be replicated," he says with a chuckle.

"The melody was already their jingle but the first polyphonic ringtone of it was made by my team," he says.

Somewhere Only We Know (Polyphonic ringtone)

Snowed Under (Polyphonic ringtone)

Since that time every Nokia mobile phone, as well as those of many of the company's competitors, has contained Dolby's polyphonic ringtone synthesiser.

The effects suite and synthesizer are licensed in the form of software libraries to mobile phone manufacturers and providers of related technology (e.g. DSP's and DSP operating systems), in order to provide polyphonic ringtone rendering and enhanced music or mobile TV playback on hand-held devices.