How to: Make your iPhone vibrate, then ring

One of the things the iPhone really needs is more options for ringtones and general calling features. It’s currently difficult to upload your own ringtones, and modifying the way they play back when you receive a call is out of the question. I miss my Sony Ericsson phones- they let you customize every step of the ringing process.

Many people have tried in vain to figure out how to get the iPhone to do a simple task- vibrate, then ring. This is great when you’re in a meeting and you want to forward the call to your voicemail before it disrupts the whole room. It’s also useful for people who don’t believe in bothering an entire store or subway with their noisy ringtones, but want it to go off just in case they miss the subtle buzz at the beginning.

Enough introduction. The New York Times’ Professor Muller has figured out a way to do exactly what we mentioned. Here’s how, in a nutshell: create a ringtone with, for example, ten seconds of SILENCE at the start. Then, set your iPhone to “Vibrate & Ring” simultaneously.
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