Emotive's Push Ringer overrides ringtones, pranksters overjoyed

Forget personalized ringtones and ringbacks, the next tween obsession has arrived in the form of Push Ringer, which "enables a caller to push an outgoing ringtone to the receiving phone -- allowing the caller, not the called person -- to set the tone." We're assuming you're either elated or sighing mightily after reading that, but there's 7.7 million reasons why you wish you would've implemented it first. A group of deep-pocketed investors have sunk $7.7 million into Emotive Communications' flagship idea, which temporarily overrides the phone's preset ringer, and moreover, allows the recipient of the surprise sound-byte to "instantly buy a copy" if they so desire. Notably, this very service has already taken the VoIP world over, as Skype users are probably more familiar with the RingJacker concept. Now, who's down for inventing the Push Ringer Reverser to send a "you got punk'd" clip back at the egotistical sender?

[Via The Raw Feed]

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 21st 2007 1:27AM]

There had damn well better be a way to disable this on the receiving end. I'd strangle the person that tried this crap on me. I already won't call/hang up on people with ringback tones.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 21st 2007 9:26AM]

What bullshit.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2007 4:19PM]

not cool...what if I'm at a dinner party or a wedding and someone jacks my ringtone with a insulting or dirty ringtone..you can keep that

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 17th 2007 6:51PM]

I hope they took the 7.7 million reasons and ran, because this is the stupidest idea ever.