If you sit next to anyone at work who spends most of their day texting, then you will appreciate how unbearable it is.Īh! We can't even put an audio clip up for you it's so bad.Ĭoming in at number one on our list of the World’s Worst Ringtones is the truly hateful, antisocial Samsung whistle. One of the questions that no phone-maker has ever answered is: “why do we need phones with keypads that make a noise?” Seriously, what is the point of such a thing? With every press of the button it’s plop, plop, plop, drip, drip, drip. Whenever she calls, we hear the nuclear bunker algorithm and all share a laugh – the first time. There is little more tragic than a grown-man assigning this personalised ringtone to his wife’s phone number. But in as quick a time as it became popular, it became loathed. When it first came out a lot of people found it mildly amusing. It’s hard to believe that the Crazy Frog is now 13 years old. While the tone is just about acceptable on one loop alone, it quickly becomes insufferable if the phone isn’t answered immediately. Used to death and immortalised by British comedian Dom Joly in the 1990s, the famous Nokia ring has evolved from an irritating two-tone monophonic beep to a full-blown irritating opera.

To make life better for those around you, keep your phone on silent!

To draw attention to the biggest offenders, here are the five worst sounds you can use on your phone.

Both at work and in the coffee shop, your day can be ruined by those with horrid-sounding phones, and ruined even more if they have the volume anti-socially loud. As mobile phones become more and more advanced, it seems that the various ringtones and message alerts they come with get worse and worse.

Top ringtones for cell phones