Emoji for iPhone

My sisters and I are going gaga over the iPhone Emoji app! Emoji is the Japanese term for small emoticon pictures. The word ‘e moji’ literally means ‘picture + letter’. It is a set of picture characters popularly used in Japan much in the same way as emoticons here in the US. Unlike emoticons, the Emoji pictographs offer a wider variety of images such as accessories, gems, animals, as well as holiday goodies like a Valentine chocolate box, Halloween pumpkin and Santa.

Emoji support was added to the iPhone in firmware 2.2 and can only be sent from an iPhone running OS 2.2 with a SoftBank email account and a SoftBank SIM. Viewing Emoji picture characters on an iPhone requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later and a SoftBank SIM. Emoji picture characters cannot be sent from an iPhone with a different SIM or an iPhone running OS 2.1 or earlier.

Emoji is available from the App Store for $0.99.

To install Emoji on your iPhone for free, check out Gizmodo.

Visit the developer’s website for more information on iPhone Emoji.