San Diego, CA – To promote RingtoneStudio for iPhone, PocketMac will be giving away one factory-unlocked iPhone 3G in a contest starting today. Second and third place winners will each win a $50 or $15 iTunes gift card, respectively. The contest ends November 30, 2009 and is based around the software, PocketMac RingtoneStudio for iPhone.

“We want to get people talking about and trying our great ringtone creation software, RingtoneStudio for iPhone,” said Tim Goggin, VP Of Sales & Marketing. “The more people help us promote this software, the cooler the prizes get.”

Different levels of prizes will be available to contestants based on how many copies of RingtoneStudio are sold before the end of contest. In the beginning, three $15 iTunes gift card are available to win. If sales of RingtoneStudio exceed 100 copies sold during the contest period, two $50 iTunes gift card will able to win. If sales of RingtoneStudio top 250 sales, one lucky winner will take away a legally, factory-unlocked iPhone.

Goggin continued, “These iPhones are the rarest of rare. In most countries, iPhones are only offered by one or two carriers. But in some areas, Apple ships these phones to the consumer unlocked. That is, they can be used with a SIM card from any carrier. This is one of these phones.”

Legally-unlocked iPhones require no “jailbreaking”, the process of modifying an iPhone to work with a different carrier. Instead, these iPhones are programmed to accept any SIM card. Also, they can be updated to the latest versions of the iPhone operating system without the hassles involved in updating jailbroken phones.

The software at the heart of the contest, RingtoneStudio for iPhone, was designed to produce an unlimited quantity of ringtones – avoiding Apple’s 99 cent-per-ringtone fee. It creates ringtones from any unprotected music format or from a variety of QuickTime-friendly video formats.

The heavy-duty user-requested features of this new version include:
* Visual Sound Editing – now users can visually edit ringtones by looking at the actual waveform of the sounds being played in realtime, with a zoom of up to 16x
* Volume Control – users can now boost the volume of any song or clip, with full undo
* Add fade-in/fade-out to any ringtone
* Full compatibility/integration with QuickTime Pro. Copy and paste sounds between RTS and QuickTime or QuickTime Pro
* Better integration of video and waveform editing

This contest runes through November 30, 2009. RingtoneStudio 2.0 for iPhone is available now for $19.95 (USD).

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