If you were slightly disappointed when Apple introduced iPhone 2.2, giving exclusive Emoji-love to all those Japanese iPhone users, you may be in luck. A 99c/59p application has been discovered which when installed actually unlocks the Emoji keyboard on iPhone OS … [Edit] - VIDEO: http://vimeo.com/2946195 [Update] - It’s come to light that for your recipient to see your Emoji, they also must have enabled Emoji on their iPhone or iPod touch. (Credit - @IdaMom). Twitter user @Zyber17 has discovered a hole in 2.2. Not just that, but an weirdly-named application currently on the store (has a Japanese name - see attached), selling for a measly 59p actually harnesses the ability to (accidentally) unlock the Emoji keyboard within iPhone OS 2.2. Here’s what you do: Buy the application, play with it for a few minutes, then quit it and navigate to: iPhone Settings > General > Keyboard > Japanese. You will now see an ‘On/Off’ option for Japanese Emoji! Basically, we advise you to pick up this app as quickly as physically possible, if you want Emoji on your non-Japanese iPhone or iPod touch. ...and yes, the app is disguised as an RSS reader. Reviewed at: v1.1.1 Reviewed on Firmware: 2.2 Download size: 0.1MB Released on: 3rd Dec 2008 Retails for: 59p/$0.99 Compatible with: iPod touch Gen 1 & 2 / iPhone Classic / iPhone 3G [AppStore]
Works fine. But I had to leave the all running for 10-15 minutes for it to work. Grab it quick before Apple prob. pulls it.
This works! and it works when texting them! Emoji is cool! I wasn't to disappointed that we didn't get them, but that was because I didn't know how cool they were, or how many of them there were. There are a bunch of pages of these pictures. Definitely worth the $.99 to buy the app that unlocks them Also I would suggest not updating this app if any future version are released. They/apple may change something in the code to stop this from happening.
I just TXT my friend from iphone 2g to iphone 3g he has no idea what emoji is and he can see them just fine! also you can add emoji as a contacts as well!!!!
Nice find! You can even delete the app, and the keyboard is still unlocked! Hopefully this doesn't mess up the iDevices in anyway...
yeah in emails it shows a bunch of boxes. And on aim same thing. and if you text a non-iphone user it shows a bunch of questions marks
I can't believe you guys actually paid for this ability. It is free on jailbroken devices, and quite easy...
Get this app before it gets pulled!! It is awesome!! Oh and this emoji looks like the toucharcade logo!
That's because we don't want to jailbreak. You could say the same thing about applications/games we have bought. They are free on there too. So what. I'm not going to jailbreak to save $.99
Can't see Emoji in Firefox? > http://tinyurl.com/a8bydl. No solution for Safari users just yet. R-Fly