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Emoji available via Cydia...
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My phone is JB and I wnet to cydia and tried the search but could not find it ??? I am still running 2.1
Emojis are for 2.2 only. They come with the update. The only thing that the application in Cydia does is editing the plist file that allows access to it. Otherwise they would be only available for iPhone users in Japan specifically running on the Softbank network.
Fantastic. These are so cool! If all it takes is an edited plist and they work over text messages, then why the fuss? Why doesn't Apple let everyone use them? And what's this business I hear of them not working with other carriers in Japan? Just SoftBank?
Because there aren't really any phones that support emojis outside of Japan.
Why just for SoftBank? I guess because the three main Japanese operators, NTT DoCoMo, au and SoftBank Mobile, have each defined their own variants of emoji.
Taken from wikipedia: The SoftBank design, which supports colors and animation, is particularly popular among young girls. DoCoMo's emoji are the most compact to transmit while au's version is more flexible based on open standards.
Here is a comparison chart
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Yes, but other Softbank phones are able to send/receive emoji with AU and DoCoMo. I would know, I have other Softbank phones and this function has worked for at least the past three-four years. So I wonder what the iPhone's problem is?
heaven said:
Yes, but other Softbank phones are able to send/receive emoji with AU and DoCoMo. I would know, I have other Softbank phones and this function has worked for at least the past three-four years. So I wonder what the iPhone's problem is?
Wait, are you saying that the iPhone's emojis can't be sent/received to/from AU and DoCoMo while other phones are able to do that? Thats interesting..
someone care to explain what this is? (emoji icon)
To me it looks like a smiling piece of crap. Those crazy japanese!
To me it looks like a smiling piece of crap. Those crazy japanese!
I have attached a screenshot of the smiley in question so that people browsing the forums from their computers can have a laugh at that too
Okay, now how do we enable Emoji on the Mac? It appears to just be a fancy font thing, like and all of these: ç˙˚©∂®¢∞§¶¨.
There has to be a way to do it. I've been looking around in my phone's files and can't find a font for it or anything. But maybe I haven't been looking hard enough.
Ideally it's just a font we can install on our Macs!
There has to be a way to do it. I've been looking around in my phone's files and can't find a font for it or anything. But maybe I haven't been looking hard enough.
Ideally it's just a font we can install on our Macs!
I have attached a screenshot of the smiley in question so that people browsing the forums from their computers can have a laugh at that too
Aww what a cute pile of dung!
Or at least a firefox extension to display them. But I guess that will be done pretty soon
What I don't understand is why has a 3rd party made a texting app that has these emoji. If we can make these:
Of course they can, but the difficult part will be finding someone who will have the same plugin for the texting app installed in order to display them. Otherwise they will see only the boxes or some random '$57A' signs. Both phones need to have the same software. When you decide to send an emoji like this:
to someone, your phone texts the as $57A or something like that and the recipients phone interprets the $57A as a .Thats how I see it and I might be wrong.
A third party did nothing. Apple made these. Emoji have been around for years. It's just something they do in Japan.
It's not a separate app. Apple just made it so the iPhone can receive these unicode characters and interpret them as certain smilies, then display a certain smilie as the character. Just like our computers do for characters like: or $, and much like our web browser does for things like these:
or ... but in the case of the web browser, the page contains the path to an image file, and the browser knows the get the image file and display it appropriately.If we can make these:
The only reason you are able to make those on your iPhone is because you can type in the "code" for each smilie, and the website and web browsers figure it out from there.
1. These emoticons exist in on a website.
2. It is unnecessary, we have Emoji.
3. If you're going to put a new texting app on the phone, then you've clearly jailbroken your phone so you might as well just enable Emoji anyway.
4. Emoji are system-wide. They work in SMS, Email, Safari, Twitter clients, Notepad, etc. It's not just a text messaging thing.
5. I don't think you have any grasp at all of how unicode typefaces work, so your frustration here is unwarranted, and your suggested workaround is hilarious.
Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3G (16GB): Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5G77 Safari/525.20)
That's exactly what I'm saying.
When I came to Japan six years ago, we could only send emoji by SMS/MMS, which in Japan means same carrier only. A few years ago (maybe three or four) I noticed that I was able to send emoji to an keitai email address (meaning, another carrier's phone) and since then, every phone I've owned has had that ability. Until the iPhone, that is.
heaven said:
Wait, are you saying that the iPhone's emojis can't be sent/received to/from AU and DoCoMo while other phones are able to do that? Thats interesting..
That's exactly what I'm saying.
When I came to Japan six years ago, we could only send emoji by SMS/MMS, which in Japan means same carrier only. A few years ago (maybe three or four) I noticed that I was able to send emoji to an keitai email address (meaning, another carrier's phone) and since then, every phone I've owned has had that ability. Until the iPhone, that is.
What I don't understand is why has a 3rd party made a texting app that has these emoji. If we can make these:
you clearly don't know anything about web forums. those aren't 'made' on the iphone.
These: aren't on the iPhone, silly. They're made by MacRumors Forum code interpreting them as smileys and sending the correct image to the web browser. That's why works on any computer, or iPhone.
Emoji is iPhone/Japanese Mobile Phone specific. It has to have the specific code eg $590Xa might become a smiley face on a Japanese phone. That's how it works. Ira also how Nokia's send those little picture SMSs that don't work on Sagems or whatever.
Also, Emoji is viewable by anyone on 2.2 iPhone. However, it's only writeable if you're on Softbank, or have the hack installed.
Oh, and that pile of poop with a smiley face... ROFL!!!!!
aren't on the iPhone, silly. They're made by MacRumors Forum code interpreting them as smileys and sending the correct image to the web browser. That's why works on any computer, or iPhone. Emoji is iPhone/Japanese Mobile Phone specific. It has to have the specific code eg $590Xa might become a smiley face on a Japanese phone. That's how it works. Ira also how Nokia's send those little picture SMSs that don't work on Sagems or whatever.
Also, Emoji is viewable by anyone on 2.2 iPhone. However, it's only writeable if you're on Softbank, or have the hack installed.
Oh, and that pile of poop with a smiley face... ROFL!!!!!
Spell Number will enable it and you don't even need Cydia or to jailbreak.
http://appshopper.com/link/spell-number
Follow the instructions in the app description.
