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The new Android based device, called Droid, has just been announced. And it has a cool sound when a SMS is received.

To use the sound as a text message-tone on an iPhone, you need a jailbroken device and a AIFF version of the file. Download the already converted and corretly named file:

• sms-received6.caf
• droid-alert.wav

Or convert it yourself. In iTunes change the Import settings in Preferences to AIFF, add the droid sound to the iTunes library and right-click it, pick Convert to AIFF, drag the new AIFF file to the desktop, rename it to sms-received6.caf.

Connect to the iPhone via SCP and go to /System/Library/Audio/UISounds/. Rename the existing sms-received6.caf to sms-received6-org.caf, and upload the new droid sms-received6.caf. Go into Settings, Sounds, New Text Message, and pick Electronic as the SMS sound. Voila!

To use it as a ringtone, just sync this droid-alert.m4r with the iPhone in iTunes.