Ringr Roulette – Review
By App Type: Uncategorized
Our rating: 
By: John Ellis
Version #: 1.0
Date Released: 2008-11-18
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Price: 0.99
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One of your buddies just texted, inviting you to yet another drinking session tonight. Needless to say, you’re more than delighted to join. What with the myriad of problems plaguing your mind, the worst being a tie between a line of dead pixels on your LCD TV that appeared right after the warranty expired and, of course, your mother-in-law. And to prepare for tonight’s round of fun-filled inebriation, you tap and hold on an app icon on your iPhone and drag it into the dock so you know just where to find it when you’ve taken in more alcohol than you can manage and mustered more than enough courage to do some drunk dialing. But who to call? Well that’s where said app steps in. Welcome to Ringr Roulette.
Being an app whose target demographic consists of chronic drinkers and their adorable friends, it’s dead simple to use. Open the app to show a keypad rendered in a way as though the user has intoxication-induced double vision, and shake the device. Your contacts are then displayed one after another at the bottom, accompanied by a roulette sound effect, until a not-so-lucky contact is chosen. The app will then attempt to dial the number right after the timer ends, granted you did not tap the Chicken Out button, then you can propose marriage to your realtor, complain about the absence of cut-and-paste on the iPhone to your top client, or promise the pizza boy a chateau on a mountaintop in France.
In your sober hours, you can adjust the duration of the countdown timer, if you’d like to have a longer time to decide whether to chicken out or to go for it, as well as exclude some people from the list of contacts from which the roulette pulls its candidates, really useful if you would very much prefer not to drunk dial your mother-in-law’s number.
Value: Unless you drunk dial every time you’re out with the guys, low.
Would I Buy Again:
I don’t get drunk that often, so I would have to say no.
Learning Curve:
Zero
Who Is It For:
Drunk dialers
What I Like:
Downright simple; hilarious concept
What I Don’t:
Nothing
Final Statement:
An amusing, no-holds-barred one-trick app that lets you do its trick so simply you can operate it even with damaged neurons — exactly the app’s point.
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