I have to say it sounds quite pretty, and is much better than the iPhone’s Marimba ringtone. Roger Bourland was commissioned to write the 8 new ringtones for the Palm Pre, including this one (hit up the link to hear it).

Bourland praised Matias Duarte for having the vision to commission “micro-compositions; not just phone emulations, or paid-for chunks of pre-existing songs.” Each ringtone is roughly 24 seconds long before it kicks into the message service. [...] Bourland is in negotiations with Palm to make available, the remaining 170 ringtones that were made at the same time, through the Palm application site.

This makes me want to know what the other ringtones are, and now I’m not sure I’ll replace the default ringer with an .mp3 ringtone or not.

[Via PreCentral.net]