Owen Williams

For the first time since I started buying smartphones I'm planning to switch to Android, and there's one thing that had me stuck: iMessage. After mourning that I'd have to give it up, I started looking into alternatives – then remembered that Google's Allo [https://allo.google.com] service existed. Given

iOS 10 is expected to be released next week, as Apple announces its new iPhone tomorrow. The latest iOS preview includes a number of new emojis [https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-10-emoji-update-first-look/]. We're excited about the changes, because many of them are long overdue – and the update includes one of the

There are all kinds of common emojis we don't have yet, but Kim Kardashian has a whole set! How? Well, it's really nothing more than marketing. The term "emoji" originates from Japan, and it's a generic term there, similar to emoticon in English (though the fact they sound similar is

Last year Snapchat quietly added emoji [http://emojipedia.org/snapchat/] next to your friend's names in your feed, but it didn't tell anyone what they actually meant – we've cracked the emoji code so you don't have to be wondering what this 😏 actually means. 🌟 Gold Star Did you know you can

Basically everyone considers Apple's emojis to be the 'official' ones when there's a misunderstanding – so much so that even competitors have changed their versions to more closely resemble Apple's over time. In Android Nougat [http://emojipedia.org/google/android-n/], for example, Google is opting to change its dancer emoji [https: