Up to 250 new Emoji emoticons could soon arrive on mobile phones
emoticons are a form of communication more than rooted in the daily life of users. Applications such as WhatsApp have allowed symbolic communication in which a yellow face or apoop (actually an ice cream) smiling are capable of expressing more than a word or even a sentence. A collection of emoticons that has transcended among different applications and Internet services thanks toindustry standard known as Unicode, which allows it to be read and viewed across different platforms.A standard that has just been updated with no less than 250 new emoticons in style Emoji
The new collection of faces, hands andobjects is thus considerably expanded to satisfy any communicative need of the user. In this new list, which has already been published on the Emojipedia website ( although still without the image of the emoticons), it is possible to discover new gestures and situations and necessary for many users. For example, it is praiseworthy that there is already a reference to same-sex couples However, there are still shortcomings such as emoticons that do not reflect different races and skin colors
Much more is surprising the insulting gesture known in Spain as la peinetaA way to insult the interlocutor or make it clear what you think of a comment or action with the icon of a fist in the one with the middle finger extended Much nicer is the gesture Vulcan greeting A nice detail for passionate users of the series Star Trek Gestures that, together with the expanded category of objects, will significantly enhance user conversations, both in expressive as in visual
Of course, the Unicode update does not imply the imminent arrival of these emoticons to messaging applications or keyboardssmartphones And it is that this standard has yet to be accepted by large companies to begin to be used through their services and tools. Thus, no date and no confirmation yet from Google (Android),Apple (iOS) or Microsoft (Windows Phone) to switch to using Unicode 7.0 However, it is something that is expected to happen soon as it is such a useful option and so well received by the majority of users, although there is still work ahead to be able to send these images through the devices.
That a picture says more than a thousand words is something that even the emoticons Emoji have proven. And it is that they are not only used for plain and direct communication, but they are capable of offering diversions such as replacing actions and expressions by changing each word for an image, in addition to creating large drawings from its small icons, among many other options . Something that other applications have used to get even more out of these nice icons. Undoubtedly, something that will be further enhanced from now on thanks to the new 250 Emoji emoticons in version 7.Unicode 0
