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iPhone 2.2 Includes Hidden Japanese Emoji Icons
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Got me convinced
This article finally got me convinced. The lack of support for Emoji do seem like a fundamental flaw when the actual effect is being unable to comprehend messages due to missing common symbols replacing words.
If you take into account that these symbols may be used for other uses other than smilys it's really vital.
Good thing this is being adressed. I just hope 2.2 brings some major feature too.
This article finally got me convinced. The lack of support for Emoji do seem like a fundamental flaw when the actual effect is being unable to comprehend messages due to missing common symbols replacing words.
If you take into account that these symbols may be used for other uses other than smilys it's really vital.
Good thing this is being adressed. I just hope 2.2 brings some major feature too.
Several friends I know living in Japan will probably be very pleased to see this. While I personally wouldn't likely use it that much, I hope that it's not limited to just the Japanese phones... I think it would be neat to at least have available to use.
Scrolling through the link provided earlier on of the different Emoji had me laughing pretty hard at some of them. It shouldn't surprise me that there's a Love Hotel Emoji... but it was still worth a good laugh.
Scrolling through the link provided earlier on of the different Emoji had me laughing pretty hard at some of them. It shouldn't surprise me that there's a Love Hotel Emoji... but it was still worth a good laugh.
I was unaware that 98% of Japanese iPhone sales were due to 12 year olds' texting needs.
No, 20-something women's texting needs (and their boyfriends). I lived in Japan for three years and I can't imagine coping with email there with a phone that couldn't properly display emoji. There were quite a few email conversations I had that were almost entirely emoji. Japanese email without being able to display emoji is like English in all caps and all the vowels replaced with random Greek characters.
No "emoji (off/on)" option
As much as I was looking forward to using emoji, I don't think we have this feature in the upgrades for any other country besides Japan or other countries that openly uses emoji to begin with.
According to this:
http://netafull.net/iphone/028245.html
To access emoji you will need to enable the japanese keyboard and then turn emoji (絵文字) on.
I do use the Japanese keyboard, and I have the language set to Japanese, however -- I do not have the emoji option. I think this may only be limited to softbank/Japan users OR we only have the ability to receive emoji but not enter them. Unless there is another way to switch the emoji on that I am unaware of.
In addition to that... when my firmware was upgraded it said the following:
Emoji was not listed....
As much as I was looking forward to using emoji, I don't think we have this feature in the upgrades for any other country besides Japan or other countries that openly uses emoji to begin with.
According to this:
http://netafull.net/iphone/028245.html
To access emoji you will need to enable the japanese keyboard and then turn emoji (絵文字) on.
I do use the Japanese keyboard, and I have the language set to Japanese, however -- I do not have the emoji option. I think this may only be limited to softbank/Japan users OR we only have the ability to receive emoji but not enter them. Unless there is another way to switch the emoji on that I am unaware of.
In addition to that... when my firmware was upgraded it said the following:
Emoji was not listed....
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2404
Only for iPhone with a Softbank SIM.
Apple decided to be smarter than the user and prevent us from using emoji when we are not *supposed* to. I guess they do not want to be the force behind making something a global standard that never was meant to (I can see people in other countries trying to use them once they see they are there).
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)
Actually, there's more to it than that. I'm in Japan, with an iPhone 3G running 2.2 on Softbank, a 26 month contract, and a valid Softbank SIM. But I can neither send nor receive emoji in my email. My problem? I use MobileMe.
Emoji only works with SMS and a Softbank issued email account. You know, the one nobody actually uses because it doesn't support push and it auto-deletes all of your email after thirty days? Yeah. That one.
Pure genius.
elmimmo said:
Actually, there's more to it than that. I'm in Japan, with an iPhone 3G running 2.2 on Softbank, a 26 month contract, and a valid Softbank SIM. But I can neither send nor receive emoji in my email. My problem? I use MobileMe.
Emoji only works with SMS and a Softbank issued email account. You know, the one nobody actually uses because it doesn't support push and it auto-deletes all of your email after thirty days? Yeah. That one.
Pure genius.
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)
Will that help with receiving emoji too? Because I can't even see emoji in mail sent to my MobileMe acct.
bradenwh said:
Will that help with receiving emoji too? Because I can't even see emoji in mail sent to my MobileMe acct.
I've never had emoji show up in mail from a keitai to a regular email address before, so that's not surprising to me. BUT my GF is on docomo & she now can send me some emoji that are embedded as .gifs, which I see in my MobileMe mail. However, she doesn't see my new SoftBank emoji (I fired up the i.softbank account to give it a try), which is kind of a bummer. I haven't received any mail with emoji from another iPhone or other SoftBank phone (or sent any) yet.
I wonder why Google was able to solve this problem with Gmail but Apple is having such a hard time. The iPhone obviously has the necessary graphics to display emoji correctly, and the fact that it STILL doesn't work is almost like pouring salt in the wounds.
I'm beginning to wonder if they'll EVER get it right. I mean, this is what? The fourth software fix since launch? And we STILL can't read emails from other carriers' phones? Kind of pathetic, I think.
I'm beginning to wonder if they'll EVER get it right. I mean, this is what? The fourth software fix since launch? And we STILL can't read emails from other carriers' phones? Kind of pathetic, I think.
I don't find this file there. I've got PreferenceSync.plist and preferences.internet.plist but no just Preferences.plist...
And exactly where "everywhere" is this supposed to enable emoji? On MobileMe? On my Mac OS X Mail client? I've already got them working (sort of -- see previous post) on my iPhone...
Still not displaying...
Like a few people, my Au and Docomo connected friends cannot see the emoji I send them, the same as I cannot see thiers...
It amazes me that apple would let this through without having at least tested it with some other carriers. But I have a feeling that this something from the Softbank side. I only switched over from Au to get the iPhone and have since heard how Au included Softbank email in thier standard spam blicking lists... so maybe the focus should be on the carrier rather than apple.
If anyone out there can actually get the emoji's through, please let us know so that we can try to figure it out!
Like a few people, my Au and Docomo connected friends cannot see the emoji I send them, the same as I cannot see thiers...
It amazes me that apple would let this through without having at least tested it with some other carriers. But I have a feeling that this something from the Softbank side. I only switched over from Au to get the iPhone and have since heard how Au included Softbank email in thier standard spam blicking lists... so maybe the focus should be on the carrier rather than apple.
If anyone out there can actually get the emoji's through, please let us know so that we can try to figure it out!
