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Emoji icons, the Japanese style emoticons used in messages are super popular in the Japanese mobile market. So popular in fact that people love to accuse weak iPhone sales in Japan because the iPhone can’t use emoji. Personally, I chalk it up to the fact that in Japan the iPhone isn’t so forward-thinking a phone. After all, the iPhone also has only one screen, no video chat, no 3.2+ megapixel camera, no live TV capabilities, Wow I really want a Japanese cell phone, I mean… the point is some people think it’s no emoji that’s kept iPhone back in Japan. Well, emoji has arrived! And you don’t need to be in Japan to get it!

Emoji hides in iPhone firmware 2.2 but the feature is available only to iPhone users on the Japan’s SoftBank network. Or so they thought…

There are a few ways to activiate the emoji icons hiding in your iPhone in firmware 2.2:
1. Jailbreak your phone and install the emoji hack from Cydia,
2. Jailbreak your phone and edit the file /User/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preferences.plist. Add the boolean key as ‘true’: KeyboardEmojiEverywhere,
3. Import a special vcard.vcf address book file then go thru a couple steps. Every time you want emoji, you have to type “emojia”, “emojii” or “emojiu” to have the emoji menu appear,
4. Go to the App Store and download Touch Dial Emoji for $5,
5. Spend $0.99 at the App Store on FrostyPlace.

The choice is yours.
(But I recommend FrostyPlace.)

FrostyPlace is an RSS reader for iPhone for frostyplace.com, a Mac news site in traditional Chinese coming out of Taiwan. You might not be able to read traditional Chinese and that’s just fine. What you want is for FrostyPlace to do all those little line commands you don’t really want to be bothered with to unlock emoji. And it will.

After you install it for the bargain price of 99 cents, go to Settings>General>Keyboard>International Keyboards>Japanese>Emoji. Turn emoji ON.

Go to SMS, hit the international keyboard icon, and presto! EMOJI POWER!

This blog posting is part of the ZiggyTek Gadget Community Launch Event.

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hahaha! Lan would totally win.


I wouldn’t mind seeing Lan and Jerry go into some sort of Ultimate Figher type thing raspberry


I wouldn’t know. ^^ I don’t have any iPhone apps. haha so this will be my first!


Mercury - 01/29/09 2:35 am

lol Where do you find all your iPhone apps David?

aren’t all the cool kids talking about iPhone emoji? @_@


lol Where do you find all your iPhone apps David?


As funny as this all is, please let’s stay on topic?


Hahahaha.  Jerry and Lan, you two are cracking me up.

And that’s a cute name for your kitties, Tiff!


TiffanieJLee - 01/29/09 1:00 am

Yep, named him and Star after David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era.

That’s too cute! I love Ziggy Stardust! <3
My cat’s name seems so… unspecial now.
xD


I just bought that last night! It’s so much fun! <3


PhoSho - 01/29/09 1:53 am

You know what they say about girls and lots of cats…

Haha, oh geez.


You know what they say about girls and lots of cats…


The thing they don’t tell you about iphone apps is that they drain a lot of battery life.

I had an iphone for about 3 months and got tired of the battery dying so quickly. Now it’s all about blackberries!


Yep, named him and Star after David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era.


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round 1 goes to Jerry!


Tiff, you really have a cat named Ziggy?


You’re dead.


it had to be done
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Ziggy

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Star

Tabby twinsies!

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Me and the Zigster.


TiffanieJLee - 01/28/09 11:28 pm

That Neko app is cute, but it looks pretty old school for something like the iPhone. Don’t have it or the iPhone, but I do have real kitties: Ziggy and Star(dust)—hollah back, Bowie freaks. We also call them green bean and red bean (or dou dou, for short).

What kind of cats?


lol Your cat should be Ziggy’s mascot.


ziggy?!


I still want it. ^^


That Neko app is cute, but it looks pretty old school for something like the iPhone. Don’t have it or the iPhone, but I do have real kitties: Ziggy and Star(dust)—hollah back, Bowie freaks. We also call them green bean and red bean (or dou dou, for short).


iNeko? haha


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