How to Get Graphical Emoticons on the iPhone
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Looking at my iPhone, you can see the SMS window. I was texting Ponzi, but I wasn’t sending her text. I was sending some little graphics. I enabled this feature, and you can too! The emoticons are called Emoji’s, which are Japanese smilies or emoticons.
If you want to enable these on your iPhone, you’re more than welcome to. You don’t have to jailbreak it, honestly. The first thing you need to do is download this application to your iPhone. It’s only 99 cents, and it’s well worth it. You can use these little graphics throughout all of your iPhone applications, not just SMS.
Open up the App, and browse through it a bit. You don’t have to actually try to read what it says! Once you’re done, exit out of it, and go into your Settings. Scroll to the “General” area, and then to “International”. Go to “Keyboards”, and then scroll to “Japanese”. Once you’re there, turn on Emoji. Once you’ve done this, it’s enabled and you can use it within anything you’re doing!
I’ve noticed that the more of these I send out, the more people are freaking out and have to have it, as well. They’re just so much fun. You know you want to send your friends a smiling piece of poo! As long as you and your friend both have an iPhone, you can send each other Emoji all day long!
Update!
Ryan sent me the following email, that you definitely should read if you’re considering getting this App for yourself:
Just wanted to let you know that the new iPhone firmware (2.2.1) breaks the Emoji App. It still works fine if you installed it previously, like you did. However, if you buy the App today and try to enable it, it will not work. The developers updated the App description to say that they are working on a new version that addresses this issue.
Just wanted to let you know before you post that video you recorded up to YouTube, may save you about 500 emails.
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6 Comments
Zach
January 28th, 2009
at 7:05pm
I might have to look into this.
Bryan Miner
January 28th, 2009
at 7:07pm
cool app now all i need is an iphone to use it on, wish they had this for the touch email that would be neat
Sorlin
January 28th, 2009
at 7:08pm
This is awesome! I think the emoji-icons also are available for iPod Touch, somebody that can confirm that?
Saqlain
January 28th, 2009
at 7:37pm
haha..smiling piece of poo…now i’ve got to get that..haha
Darren Moffatt
January 28th, 2009
at 11:28pm
Yep! It works with the iPod Touch as well! Unless the Touch has been upgraded to 2.2.1 as the most recent version of the frostyplace application doesn’t appear to trigger emojii support if you’re running it for the first time on OS 2.2.1.
iPod Touches that install and run the app while still in 2.2.0 should trigger emojii support though :)
William
January 29th, 2009
at 2:24pm
Interesting…
Even though this was posted five days after it was on iJustine
Hmmmmmm…