Comments on: Emoji on iPhone 3G

By: Makka

Makka — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:37:21 +0000

Best is using just an emoji as sub for a whole sentence
eg “I’m going home” CSM justbbe a pic of a frog
Japanese eespeakera will know why

By: Jungo

Jungo — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:13:30 +0000

Here is the way to use emoji everywhere on iPhone:

http://www.brighthub.com/mobile/iphone/articles/16641.aspx

By: eddie

eddie — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:38:38 +0000

In softbank mail, toggle the globe key (bottom left-ish) until it shows up

By: FANTiM

FANTiM — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:24:57 +0000

I just got my 3g from softbank. How do you even bring up the emoji dialogue?

By: jamar

jamar — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:55:39 +0000

Emoji won’t work over international messaging. I tried (between an iPhone and a Toshiba 904T). Sorry.

By: Stelio

Stelio — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:51:29 +0000

Jus updated my iPhone jailbroke it and got the emoji since my girl is in japan she wudnt shut up about it anyways I was able to email her with it but when she replied all I got was a box with a question mark this don’t make sense if I’m able to send shudnt I also be able to receive? How do I fix this?

By: Robert Swier

Robert Swier — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:46:31 +0000

Oh…I forgot something.
Not having emoji is not as big a problem as one might expect from the “bad example” you have above. In your example, you use the emoji as verbs and nouns. If those icons were removed, the message would be undecipherable. My experience reading English and Japanese-language messages composed by native Japanese speakers is that the icons are typically placed after phrases and before sentences, rather than used as replacements for them.

So, examples might be:

Happy birthday!
Do you wanna eat lunch?
I’m taking my first trip with Hiro!

These sentences are still understandable even without the emoji, though admittedly they would not be as cute.

By: Robert Swier

Robert Swier — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:22:00 +0000

To Craig: Japanese is not confusing to native Japanese speakers.

Thanks for this article. I use a SoftBank iPhone, and was looking forward to emoji after the update. But they did not seem to appear, except in SMS messages, and even then is was only sometimes. I just noticed today the option to turn on the emoji keyboard, but it never appears when I switch through the keyboards. I use a MobileMe address rather than one from SoftBank, so perhaps the keyboard doesn’t appear if the email account settings indicate something other than a SoftBank address.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:12:13 +0000

Lots of people I’ve spoken to here in Japan, would really like to get an iPhone, but their only reservation is this emoji situation. Now they are available, but only between SoftBank users, which isn’t really much good. The Japanese ALL use emoji even in serious situations (but not in a business context). They not only use them for their cuteness factor, but also as a kind of shorthand around their writing system. Japanese is a complex, confusing language, even to a lot of native speakers, or so it seems anyway.

By: eddie

eddie — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:56:16 +0000

That sounds just as pointless, Cal