2006-06-12 11:06:01 · 15 answers · asked by sk8ter_geek 3 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Land Phones
Because they aren't meant to "moo". It would sound silly to say,
please wait "my phone is mooing". Think about it.
2006-06-13 20:28:30 · answer #1 · answered by cass 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Because they're not made to. I gurantee you that if a phone was made to look like a cow, it would also be possible to have it moo. Do you have a cow mooing on tape or cd? There is a land phone you can buy, that you can record your own ring tone into it. Mine plays an old favorite tv theme, instead of ringing.
2006-06-12 21:58:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To answer your question seriously, up until about 25 years ago, phones used actual bells to generate the ring. There was no easy way to put a synthesizer in to simulate other sounds than a ring.
With the advent of cheap electronics in the early '80s, they created phones with all kinds of ringer sounds, including mooing, speaking like Mickey Mouse, what have you. Now, with cell phones, you can download practically any ringtone you like, since all the ringing sounds are generated from sound files, and not from an actual piece of equipment (i.e. bells) inside the phone.
2006-06-13 22:33:47 · answer #3 · answered by Flyboy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cows moo and phones ring. It would be weird to have a mooing phone. It would also be annoying.
2006-06-14 00:20:02 · answer #4 · answered by seatonrsp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tradition. The most common method/instrument to attaract attention (mid 1800s) was a bell ( churchs, meetings, street cars, carts, vendors...). The first phones could easily ring a bell by indicing a current through a primitive coil. AT&T, Western, Siemens soon developed a telephone market and kept the bell as the standard attention signal. It remains in digital form for almost every telephone sold in the world...and many users, I am sure, have already opetd for their phones to moo
2006-06-13 23:14:26 · answer #5 · answered by Steve 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've got one that moos. Looks like a cow.
2006-06-12 20:16:29 · answer #6 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you ask that question??????? Anyway, my answer is that cell phones can't moo unless you download a mooing ringtone.
2006-06-13 13:32:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because cows moo
2006-06-12 18:09:27 · answer #8 · answered by melissa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Set it on the "moo" mode and then it will.
2006-06-14 12:36:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually this is a great question. I was wondering why landlines can't be programmed to ring different like cell phones.
2006-06-14 08:51:13 · answer #10 · answered by teambargain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋