You know, did you actually run the app though? Because if so, it has done its deed.
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EmotiFun! Released: Apple Relaxing Policies on Emoji Enablers?
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You know, did you actually run the app though? Because if so, it has done its deed.
Works fine here. I never use my SoftBank email account; all of my email is sent/received through my MobileMe account. I'm able to send emoji to other SoftBank subscribers, as well as receive.
Need another UPDATE to "EmotiNOTFun!" b/c it's not up and running. Did Apple "unrelax" it's policies on Emoji Enablers? 
still on both of mine. works great between my wife (Original) and i (3G) it's fun for free, i guess But, last night i tried to install on a friends iPhone and no go, i even had to copy the app out of my MPB and dropped it into my wife's Vista PC and synced itunes then it was on her phone.
But, last night i tried to install on a friends iPhone and no go, i even had to copy the app out of my MPB and dropped it into my wife's Vista PC and synced itunes then it was on her phone.
Um, no, Apple is not going to use the "kill switch" for an Emoji app.
The only time Apple will use this is if there is an actual malicious/dangerous application that sneaks through the approval process.
Um, no, Apple is not going to use the "kill switch" for an Emoji app.
The only time Apple will use this is if there is an actual malicious/dangerous application that sneaks through the approval process.
Well, I've been wondering if it IS malicious. There are reports of side effects, and so on, but everyone is so random and unable to communicate that it's hard to tell. I know most likely it's fine - I was just facetiously speculating.
Emoji desktop font...
What we really need is an Emoji font for Mac and Windows desktops...
Then Emoji would not be limited to the iPhone, bet there is one somewhere on a Japanese site. I know I found a Mac QR code reader that way, eventually.
I know there is at least one Mac app that shows Emoji for Facebook, but that is an app not the OS.
Bring on an Emoji font for the desktop, thinking on it, can we not rip this out of the iPhone firmware?
What we really need is an Emoji font for Mac and Windows desktops...
Then Emoji would not be limited to the iPhone, bet there is one somewhere on a Japanese site. I know I found a Mac QR code reader that way, eventually.
I know there is at least one Mac app that shows Emoji for Facebook, but that is an app not the OS.
Bring on an Emoji font for the desktop, thinking on it, can we not rip this out of the iPhone firmware?
no. once you have it, you have it for good, even if you restore (as long as you back up). before it was free in the app store i jailbroke and got it for free and since then i've restored 3 times and updated to 2.2.1 and i still have it. whenever you restore you just have to make sure you back up the device before the restore then put the back up on the device when you're done restoring.
Yep, this works as well!
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Out of interest, does anyone know why Apple has decided to remove this harmless and fun feature from our iPhones?!
Because North American cell phone companies don't support it. It's only a standard in Japan. For example, if my friend in the USA with an AT&T iPhone sends a txt message with an emoji icon in it, to my iPhone on Rogers in Canada, all I get is a bunch of jibberish, and vice versa. It only works from one iPhone to another iPhone on the same network, and that's too much to figure out for the average customer. They would have to know what network all their friends are on and what type of phone they have. Apple removed it for simplicity sake and to prevent complaints.
...to which the obvious answer is "make it optional, off by default, and with a warning to that effect on the settings page". It's not flippin rocket science and you can't break anything - if the worst that can happen is some idiot ignoring the warnings and texting his mates jibberish characters on occasion, then the world's not going to end.
They are making it optional by continuing to allow multiple apps that enable it.
Yes, any iPhone that is running 2.2 or higher will be able to see the emoji icons even if they haven't activated it on their phone.
Maybe what Facebook shows. When I type to Facebook with my iPhone, the Emoji font appears. When I look at it on my PC, it's just a dot.
You are all very silly.
If a fellow iPhone user has 2.0 or above, he or she will be able to see ANY Emoji you send, be it in an SMS, Email, Website, etc. It does not matter. Nothing to do with carriers. It's all iPhone based. It also works on the iPod Touch.
HOWEVER, if you send an Emoji to a NON-iPhone user, OR a proper computer, the other phone most likely will reject the message completely, or display garbled and weird text. The computer will display a squear with numbers in it.
I don't know why Apple doesn't allow it out of the box. Possibly because it doesn't work on computers or non-iPhones, but who knows...
SuperMacMan
If a fellow iPhone user has 2.0 or above, he or she will be able to see ANY Emoji you send, be it in an SMS, Email, Website, etc. It does not matter. Nothing to do with carriers. It's all iPhone based. It also works on the iPod Touch.
HOWEVER, if you send an Emoji to a NON-iPhone user, OR a proper computer, the other phone most likely will reject the message completely, or display garbled and weird text. The computer will display a squear with numbers in it.
I don't know why Apple doesn't allow it out of the box. Possibly because it doesn't work on computers or non-iPhones, but who knows...
SuperMacMan
Are you absolutely sure? I tried to send emojis to my friend's AT&T iPhone in the US (I'm on O2 in the UK) and it didn't work...