Turns out that people really, really love emoji. Marketing firm Emogi calculates that more than 2 trillion messages incorporating one of the colorful characters were sent by smartphone users in 2016 ...

Ninety two percent of the world’s population uses emojis, so I can safely assume that we’ve all been there: you’re texting a friend and suddenly your conversation calls for a very specific emoji, like ...

The latest round of Pixel Audio Emoji celebrates Christmas and the New Year, while the broader Phone by Google app is testing a more prominent video calling shortcut. Following Halloween, there’s now ...

Audio Emoji was officially announced with the Pixel 8a, and it’s now seeing wide availability in the Phone app on Google devices. Update 5/18: Audio Emoji is widely rolling out in stable with version ...

While the Emoji keyboard is not new to the iPhone, it seemed as if it was disabled in iPhone OS 4.0 . For those of you developers big into the Emoji keyboard, here is how to regain the Emoji keyboard ...

What better way to accurately represent your diversity by emoji than using your actual picture to do it? Imoji is an iOS app that puts your tendency for taking too many selfies to good use by turning ...

The app is now rated age 12+, while Google's own Gboard app is rated for all ages, says a report. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of the Home team. She is a ...

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov wrote a post this week to reveal that Apple was holding off on releasing a major Telegram update for an unknown reason. Now the update has finally been approved in the iOS App ...

As a lot of us continue to stay indoors, Facebook has become a go-to platform for many people to check in with their friends, family and neighbors during the current coronavirus pandemic. Today, to ...

To win chat, Facebook Messenger must be as accessible as SMS, yet more entertaining than Snapchat. Today, Messenger pushes on both fronts with a series of announcements at Facebook’s F8 conference.

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Samsung's latest phone comes with a new animoji-style feature that's fun, if a little... weird. Here's how it works. Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering mobile ...