Geek Posted June 9, 2011 Posted June 9, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ios-5-emoji-keyboard.jpg" alt="iOS 5 Beta includes an Emoji Keyboard" title="ios-5-emoji-keyboard" width="620" height="489" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17110" /></p> <p>The <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/06/ios-5-beta-1-download/">iOS 5 beta 1</a> release includes a built-in Emoji keyboard that is accessible to anyone and is not region restricted. This is a change from past iOS releases where you would either need to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/jailbreak/">jailbreak</a> or install <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/06/get-emoji-icons-on-your-iphone-with-emoji-free/">a 3rd party application</a> in order to use Emoji from the iPhone, iPod touch, or iOS in general.</p> <p>Emoji is a Japanese reference to emoticons, which are little picture characters that have become extremely popular as an enhancement to SMS and online communication. Outside of using emoji to convey messages, you can also use the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/11/24/use-wingdings-and-emoji-to-customize-ios-folder-labels/">emoji icons to create customized iOS folder names</a>, like the camera icon alongside the folder name in this screenshot:</p> <p><img alt="Emoji iOS folders" src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/emoji-ios-folder-labels.jpg" title="Emoji iOS folder label" class="aligncenter" width="610" height="262" /></p> <p>Heads up to <a href="https://twitter.com/manda907/status/77932173788848129">@manda907</a> for discovering this.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/yQ2QxAFB3eRVzG7e0peoelINQzQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/yQ2QxAFB3eRVzG7e0peoelINQzQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/yQ2QxAFB3eRVzG7e0peoelINQzQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/yQ2QxAFB3eRVzG7e0peoelINQzQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=il8Vs2snDKg:4bFp0i9ik0g:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=il8Vs2snDKg:4bFp0i9ik0g:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=il8Vs2snDKg:4bFp0i9ik0g:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=il8Vs2snDKg:4bFp0i9ik0g:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=il8Vs2snDKg:4bFp0i9ik0g:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=il8Vs2snDKg:4bFp0i9ik0g:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=il8Vs2snDKg:4bFp0i9ik0g:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/il8Vs2snDKg" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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