Posted by: Christopher Meinck
on Feb 27, 2009
Apple today has issued a store-wide take down order of all applications that enable Emoji. Emoji's are a set of pictographs or emoticons that were previously hidden on the iPhone. They are however available in Japan. Several applications have surfaced that have enabled these cute little fellows for use in the US and other markets. The emoji's could be used in SMS messaging to other iPhone users within AT&T's network. Each emoji counts as one character of the 140 characters allowed when sending an SMS. Instead of LOL, you could simply insert a smiling emoticon or emjoi. Ars technica believes the reasoning behind the decision ranges from licensing issues to gray areas of how developers are activating the emjois. Those enjoying emojis should be able to continuing doing so until the next software update, where Apple will likely disable this functionality.
Posted by: Marianne Schultz
on Nov 10, 2008
According to iPhone Hellas, the 2.2 firmware for the iPhone will be released on November 21. It should incorporate the features previously leaked from developers who had access to the first and second beta distributions, including Street View in Google Maps, the ability to turn off auto-correction for text entry, Japanese Emoji, changes to the App Store, and the ability to download podcasts directly in the iPod application.
What still appears to be missing is the push notification feature that was promised for October. There's been no word and few rumors about this feature, but it is still a hotly-anticipated one for many iPhone users. Of course, the iPhone is still missing other highly-desired features like copy and paste and MMS, but we can all hope and dream that Apple will throw something we're not expecting into this release.
