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Google Brings Back Blob Emoji, Available as Stickers for Gboard and Android Messages

Tim July 17, 2018 11

Google killed off its blob emoji as the native emoji for Android last year, but to celebrate World Emoji Day, the company has announced that its bringing them back to live inside of Gboard and Android Messages. If you want to be technical, you could still...

Samsung Fixes Emoji in Android Oreo Update

Kellen February 12, 2018 26

Samsung's emoji have always been really bad. So bad, in fact, that it's often impossible to tell what the emoji in front of you is trying to describe or which emotion it's trying to invoke. With the Android Oreo update for Samsung phones that's dubbed the...

Here are the New Emoji You Can Expect in 2018

Tim February 8, 2018 5

Unicode announced its list of new emoji for 2018, and thanks to Emojipedia, we're getting an idea of how they may shape up when released by the various OEMs who create their own interpretations. The highlights from the new list include a llama, toolbox, salt...

THANK YOU, GOOGLE.

Kellen November 28, 2017 30

Android 8.1's biggest change - the burger emoji fix. America, great again. // Emojipedia

Gboard Gets Stickers and Bitmoji Support

Kellen August 31, 2017 11

The latest update to Google's Gboard keyboard on Android brings with it support for both stickers and Bitmoji. As Tim just explained to me, Bitmoji are personalized emoji that you design to look like yourself and are super popular with 12 year olds and his 40-...

Bye Bye, Blobs: Android O Intros New Emoji

Tim May 17, 2017 37

If you're busy flashing the Android O beta to your Nexus or Pixel device, you'll soon discover a revamped emoji library on your device. To sum up the changes, RIP to the blobs. As you might already know, various OEMs provide differing libraries of emoji, so...

Here’s What to Expect From the Next Big Emoji Update

Tim March 23, 2017 75

Back in November, Unicode Consortium, who are the overlords that determine what new emoji will come to smartphones, detailed the next round of emoji that is set to launch in mid-2017. Thanks to Emojipedia, a site that makes and showcases emoji, we now have a...

Gboard on Android Gets GIF and Emoji Suggestions, Improved Voice Typing, More

Kellen March 9, 2017 28

Gboard on Android is receiving an update this week that introduces a decent list of new features. From emoji and GIF suggestions, to improve voice typing, and Google Translate within, Google's keyboard is turning into the little powerful input beast we always...