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Unicode 10 released with 56 new emoji, coming to phones later this year

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Posted by Harish Jonnalagadda on 21 Jun 2017 7:30 am
Unicode 10 Emoji 5.0
Get ready for a whole new set of emojis. With emoji usage steadily on the rise, the Unicode Consortium is constantly incorporating a wider set of pictographs. The consortium finalized the Unicode 10 spec today, introducing 56 new emoji that includes the likes of "bearded man," "mage," "zombie,"T-Rex," "Colbert emoji," and many more. Oh, and you'll soon be able to use the Bitcoin symbol in your...

The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ will have 646 new emoji

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Posted by Florence Ion on 29 Mar 2017 3:05 pm
The newly launched Galaxy smartphones are shipping with Nougat, making them the first Samsung smartphones to include the new Emoji 4.0 right out of the box. It's always fun to see the way different companies design their version of emoji. Google may have announced new and additional emoji for Android Nougat last year, but Samsung was slow to keep up. The Galaxy S8 and S8+ are the first to ship...

Massive emoji update slated for June includes zombies, dinosaurs, vampires, and more

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Posted by Harish Jonnalagadda on 23 Mar 2017 7:58 am
Emoji 5.0
Get ready for a whole lot of new emoji. The Unicode consortium has released a draft of the Emoji 5.0 update, which includes 69 new emoji that will be released in June 2017. The new additions include a T-Rex, fairies, mages, zombies, vampires, genies, mermaids, a breastfeeding woman, curling stone, and more.

A vast majority of Android users still don't have the latest emoji

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Posted by Florence Ion on 12 Jan 2017 4:32 pm
Google's inclusive emojis mean nothing if only a small percentage of its users feel represented. Software updates have always been a major headache for Android users. Frankly, it's a wonder that so many of us have stuck around this long as fragmentation remains a major issue on our beloved mobile platform. Especially considering that the lack of consistent software updates means that there are...

Vampire giraffe pie? Even more emoji possibilities to come in Unicode 10

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 10 Nov 2016 5:33 pm
We're almost at a loss for words at this point. Emoji use is on the rise, and the Unicode Consortium is spending an increasing amount of time designing new emoji to reflect an even more diverse set of pictographs for all kinds of situations. 51 new emoji are up for consideration for inclusion in Unicode 10, with some of the headliners being "bearded man," "milkshake," "breastfeeding," "zebra," "...

Unicode 9.0 is now official with 72 new emoji

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Posted by Dan Thorp-Lancaster on 21 Jun 2016 7:11 pm
Unicode 9.0 is now official with 72 new emoji
Unicode 9 is now official, making standard a whole new set of characters and — yes — new emoji.

This new app uses neural networks to choose the perfect emoji

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Posted by Daniel Bader on 9 Jun 2016 9:00 am
Dango
Choose the right emoji, faster. A new app from Toronto-based Whirlscape taps into neural networks to choose the best emoji while you're typing. That may not sound like an impressive feat, but a long more goes into predicting which emoji you'll use than you think. The app is called Dango, and it's a sequel of sorts to an app that many Android users may be familiar with: Minuum. If you cast...

Selfie and facepalm among 72 new emojis coming to your phone

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Posted by Harish Jonnalagadda on 3 Jun 2016 12:08 am
Selfie emoji Unicode 9.0
Who likes emoji? The Unicode Consortium sure does, which is why it added 72 new candidates that will be available in Unicode 9.0. The latest batch includes a variety of new faces and objects, with the most notable being the selfie, facepalm, bacon, and shrug emojis.

Frowny face: Emoji on Android is a crapshoot and it has to change

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Posted by Ara Wagoner on 17 May 2016 1:00 pm
Yes, I care about emoji. You should, too. Emoji may be the national language of 12-year-olds, but that doesn't mean Android manufacturers should be allowed to include whatever emoji they want. It also means that if Google Play is going to allow other emoji keyboards in its store, it should support them at a system level. If I download a Deadpool emoji keyboard, I should be able to put my...

Google comes up with new emoji to better represent working women

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Posted by Harish Jonnalagadda on 11 May 2016 5:06 am
Google emoji women
In an effort to better represent the "pivotal roles women play in the world," a four-member team at Google has proposed 13 new emoji depicting women in various professional roles. The Unicode Consortium added a broader spectrum of skin tones last year, but the team from Google is now pushing for equal representation of men and women:

Latest SwiftKey beta adds support for new emoji... if you're on Android 6.0.1

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Posted by Jared DiPane on 17 Dec 2015 11:20 am
SwiftKey brings new emoji to its beta app
SwiftKey, the popular keyboard replacement on Android, has updated its beta version to bring initial support for the new emoji that came in Android 6.0.1. Unfortunately, if you're not on Android 6.0.1, you won't be able to make use of the new emoji until your phone receives the update. Those who have updated to 6.0.1 will now see the taco, unicorn, burrito and all the rest of the new emoji...

Factory images for Android 6.0.1 are now available for Nexus devices

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Posted by Jared DiPane on 7 Dec 2015 1:27 pm
Android 6.0.1 factory images are now available
Factory images for the Android 6.0.1 update containing the new emoji are now available for a variety of Nexus phones and tablets.

Android 6.0.1 will bring more than 200 new emoji to Nexus phones and tablets

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Posted by Jared DiPane on 7 Dec 2015 12:03 pm
Google pushes new emoji update to Nexus phones
Google today is unleashing Android 6.0.1, bringing along with it more than 200 new emoji to Nexus users. The all-important taco is among them, are are unicorn and cheese. So we've got that going for us, which is nice. Not all emoji are created equal, of course, and Google says it's already working with other manufacturers to share these new Unicode 8 characters. The new emoji — a long-...

New emoji will be making their way to Nexus phones next week

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Posted by Jared DiPane on 2 Dec 2015 7:38 pm
New emoji will land on Nexus phones next week
Google has confirmed that beginning next week, Nexus devices will be receiving an update that brings along with it the new emoji everyone has been waiting for. In late October, Hiroshi Lockheimer first announced that Google was working on bringing the new emoji to the platform, but there was no word on when it would happen.

Google is looking into adding more emoji to Android, but no word on when they may arrive

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Posted by Jared DiPane on 23 Oct 2015 10:28 am
Google is looking at adding more emoji to Android
Apple recently rolled out a new version of its operating system that contained a number of new emoji, and many Android users were bummed they couldn't see them. The complaints have been heard, as Google's senior vice president of Android, Hiroshi Lockheimer, has tweeted that the company is on it.

Proposed emoji changes would bring racial diversity to smiley faces

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Posted by Chuong H Nguyen on 4 Nov 2014 2:38 pm
A new proposal drafted by the Unicode Consortium would introduce more racial diversity into the popular emoji characters used in messages on smartphones. The proposal, edited by Google's Mark Davis and Apple's Peter Edberg, would bring skin tones, based on the Fitzpatrick scale for dermatology, to emoji characters in five hues ranging from a pale creme to a dark brown.

Google Voice quietly adds emoji support

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Posted by Chuong H Nguyen on 24 Jun 2014 3:02 pm
Google Voice quietly adds support for emoji
With no official confirmation or announcement from Google, we are noticing that emoji support has been quietly added to Google Voice. The lack of emoji support was noticed even as recently as a few days ago with several of our editors noticing white square boxes in lieu of emoji when messages containing these whimsical characters would have appeared. With the addition of emoji, at least test...

250 new emoji could be coming to a phone near you

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Posted by Chuong H Nguyen on 16 Jun 2014 8:04 pm
250 new emoji characters could be headed to a phone near you
The Unicode standard has been updated to add an additional 2,834 new characters, which includes about 250 pictographic symbols, or emoji. This expanded list of new symbols could help to add personality to messaging, such as SMS and MMS, Apple's iMessage, BlackBerry's BBM, Google's Hangouts, and other services.

Chrome for Android will translate the web into emoji

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Posted by Derek Kessler on 31 Mar 2014 5:09 pm
Emoji translation in Google Chrome
Lest you think you'd have to wait for April 1st for all of Google's April Fools' Day jocularity, there's more to be had tonight: try translate to emoji in Chrome on for size. That's what Google has in store for Chrome on Android, but they very cleverly intended it be saved for the day itself — the hidden feature doesn't activate until the date and time matches that of April 1st. But you can...

SwiftKey Beta updated with new emoji layout

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Posted by Jerry Hildenbrand on 15 Jan 2014 1:03 am
SwiftKey beta
Performance and memory issues also addressed SwiftKey has pushed a rather large update to their beta track today. Besides the under-the-hood changes that always come with any beta software, the emoji keyboard UI has been completely revamped, with gestures to switch tabs, a backspace bar, and layout changes. The full change log: Secondary characters on the top letter row modified when number...

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