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Some musicians have already taken cellphone music to an extreme. An Austrian rock band called the Handydandy named itself after the German term for mobile phone, handy. The band, which performs at electronic arts festivals in Europe and elsewhere, has done away with ordinary Free Real Ringtones instruments altogether. Each member of the quintet straps a Sony Ericsson handset around his neck like a guitar and taps away on the buttons, making all the facial and bodily contortions of an Eric Clapton or Carlos Santana while producing very different results.

The group's cellphones, sometimes attached to Styrofoam cutouts shaped like guitars, are linked wirelessly to laptops a Free Real Ringtones few steps away. Pressing keys triggers the nearby computers to play a cacophony of distorted sounds and digital beats. The group refers to its cellphone-powered blur of electronic noise as "Bluetooth Rock," a reference to the popular wireless technology.