Emoticons Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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 ...