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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Software

Emoji Comes To IChat, Cuteness Ensues

4:00AM Mark Wilson | In case you can no longer express yourself in words, instead demanding cute Japanese emoticons to encapsulate inner longing and turmoil, you can sleep well knowing that the iPhone’s Emoji set has been ported to iChat. More »
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Friday, April 3, 2009
Software

iPhone Emoji Apps Back In App Store, Someone Probably Rejoices

8:04PM John Herrman | The battle over enabling Japanese emoticons on iPhone has been a strangely passionate one. First they’re there, then they’re gone, but now they’re there despite having been told to be gone. What the hell, Emojis? More »
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Software

Apple Purging App Store Of Every Last Emoticon Enabler

9:11PM John Herrman | Developers who’ve either made a dedicated emoji-enabler or included the functionality as a feature in their apps have received notification that they need to stop with this Japanese smiley stuff, like, now. More »
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
Software

How To Text With Adorable Japanese Emoji On Your iPhone For a Buck

3:20AM John Mahoney | Typing Genius–an app for challenging your friends to a variety of touchscreen typing games–now also unlocks Emoji on your phone, so you can communicate exclusively in kawaii pictographs like Jason and I. More »
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Phones

How to Get Emoji iPhone Emoticons For Free Without Jailbreaking

8:00AM Jason Chen | Jailbreak iPhone users have been able to get Emoji, the Japanese emoticons, on their phones for a while now, but you can now get it even without jailbreaking—albeit a slightly gimped version. More »
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Simple Hack Enables Roughly One Gazillion Japanese Emoticons On Any iPhone

8:54PM John Herrman | Emoji: if you’ve never heard of it, that’s because you’re probably not living in Japan, 12 years old, and a highly social schoolgirl. An emoticon standard that is widely used in the country, it was included in the iPhone 2.2 firmware on the SoftBank network, but not for anyone else. Apparently fed up with his lack of ability to graphically express his numerous LOLs, a developer has figured out a simple tweak to enable these icons system-wide, no matter which carrier you’re with. Naturally, to show anything other than unintelligible strings of Unicode the recipient’s phone has to support Emoji emoticons, but apparently all 2.2 iPhones, hacked or not, can display the icons. The patching process, after the jump, isn’t terribly complicated. More »
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