Emoji Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple reportedly to remove emoji apps from App Store

by Mike Wehner (Nov 2nd, 2012)

Now that iOS has provided default support for emoji icons for over a year, the company finally appears to be taking action to remove the seemingly endless number of third-party emoji apps on the App Store. TechCrunch obtained an email sent by Apple to one particular app store developer, ...

Emoji for iChat adds... emoji to iChat

by Mat Lu (Jun 18th, 2009)

With the release of iPhone OS 3.0, I was wondering if emoji icons still worked (they do), and then it finally dawned on me: why not iChat? A quick search turned up exactly what I was looking for: Emoji for iChat. This free downloadable icon pack basically adds the iPhone Emoji icons to iChat, ...

Emoji on its way out of the App Store

by Christina Warren (Feb 27th, 2009)

For the past month or so, developers have been taking advantage of an opening in the iPhone SDK to enable Emoji emoticons on non-Japanese iPhones, without having to resort to jailbreaking. While I was a little taken aback by the fascination and little mini-market that sprouted up around Emoji ...

Emoji on your iPhone :-)

by Aron Trimble (Jan 26th, 2009)

Emoji, Japanese for "picture" + "letter," is a set of picture characters used in Japan much in the same way as emoticons here in the US. The Emoji pictographs, however, offer a wider variety of images than emoticons which are typically limited to just expressing an emotion or facial expression such ...

iPhoneHellas: 2.2 coming November 21

by Robert Palmer (Nov 12th, 2008)

According to iPhoneHellas.gr, version 2.2 of the iPhone firmware will be made available on November 21. The site says that the tipster is "reliable" but offered few details. Gizmodo calls the site "consistently reliable." The tipster did say, however, that the update will not contain Greek keyboard ...

Google Street View, emoji coming to iPhone 2.2?

by Robert Palmer (Oct 6th, 2008)

MacRumors hears news of some interesting new features that may see the light of day in the next iteration of iPhone firmware. The Maps application will apparently have support for Google Street View. It remains to be seen if the integration will be as impressive as that of Google Android, which ...