From: James Kass (thunder-bird@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Jan 03 2009 - 21:56:51 CST
What do the real users think?
Google search on key words: emoji icon
1)
"Hack Enables Japanese Emoji Icons on iPhone Firmware 2.2; No ..."
www.iphonehacks.com/2008/11/emoji-icon-hack.html
2)
"How to Enable Emoji Icons on iPhone 2.2 | Simon Blog"
www.simonblog.com/2008/11/26/how-to-enable-emoji-icons-on-iphone-22/
3)
"Japanese cell phone emoji graphical icon usage » 世論 What Japan ..."
whatjapanthinks.com/2007/07/12/japanese-cell-phone-emoji-graphical-icon-usage/
4)
takylo.vox.com/library/posts/tags/emoji+icons/
"Enabling Emoji Icon using Cydia..."
5)
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2404
This Apple page does not call emoji icons. There is a graphic
on that page showing a message which reads "I <multicolored
blob resembling a heart> emoji." If that author loved plain
text, that author would have used a character instead of
a picture. The expression of fondness for emoji is followed
by what appears to be a random string consisting of five
icons. Can anyone translate those pictures into words for
us, please? (The pictures are yellow smiley, green frog head,
CD-Rom disk, a picture of Mt. Fuji(?), a rocket ship (?),
and contemporary Japanese flag.)
6)
"Emoji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
"...and the icons are standardized and built into the handsets..."
7)
"Articles about emoji icon support - Appletell"
www.appletell.com/apple/tag/emoji%20icon%20support/
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"iPhone 2.2 OS to feature Google Maps Street View and other goodies?"
www.intomobile.com/2008/10/06/iphone-22-os-to-feature-google-maps-street-view-and-other-goodies.html
"...Emoji icons - little picture characters used to spice up messages ..."
9)
"YouTube - How to Get the EMOJI ICONS on your iPhone or iPod Touch"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgSUgw3ZQNs
10)
"How To Enable Emoji Icons Systemwide On Your iPhone"
www.appleiphoneapps.com/2008/11/how-to-enable-emoji-icons-systemwide-on-your-iphone/
11)
(emoji icons on iphone)
12)
(emoji icons on iphone)
13)
"Emoji Icons // BlogCatalog Topic // BlogCatalog"
www.blogcatalog.com/topic/emoji+icons/
Well, #13 strikes me as a fortuitous place to stop. Using the
above key words without enclosing them with quotations finds
about 91900 hits. How far would anyone have to go to find
a page in those results saying anything like "emoji are not icons"?
(In case you thought I stopped at 13 because 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,
and 20 didn't support my premise, you'd be wrong.)
Best regards,
James Kass
P.S. - You have to look at number eight above sideways. I thought
David Starner might enjoy something different from what his
system usually gives for a change.
P.P.S. - Of course, any wishing to make a Google search
on key words "emoji are not icons" is free to do so. I did.
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