News & Reviews:   emoji

Facebook Avatar is finally here in Malaysia after it was launched at overseas. But you might not know the existence of this feature, so what does it do? Avatar allows you to create and enable you to share a range of emotions and expressions in a fun way.

How do you communicate with your friends and family through texting? Sometimes it’s kind of difficult to express your emotion through texting, but you may express yourself better with emojis. Anyway, the Google Gboard keyboard will roll out 117 new emojis for users and they are currently in beta version. 

It seems not even emojis can escape the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Unicode Consortium, a non-profit organisation that works on the Unicode Standard, has announced that the Unicode 14.0 will be delayed by 6 months. This pushes the release date to September 2021. At the same time, Emoji 14.0 will also be delayed until 2022.

I think this is the time we can chat with Emojis only and your friend will still understand what you are trying to say. With the crazy amount of Emojis nowadays, you can get whatever you can think of from the Emoji tab. Now, if you want to let the eye-roll emoji strike your friends as it is really coming from your expression, Apple might have found a way to let you have it.

If you're the type to spice up your text conversations with emojis, you'll probably appreciate the latest feature for Gboard. The default Google keyboard app now has a fun feature that's called Emoji Kitchen and it lets you mix and max different emojis to make new ones.

In the world of emojis and stickers, it seems that Google will be releasing a new batch and it's an interesting one. According to sources, the company is experimenting mashing up two emojis together by using emotions on another emoji's shape. Besides that, it was also revealed that 117 new emojis will be ready this year including boba tea (yes, really).

In conjunction with World Emoji Day (yes, apparently it's a thing), Apple will be releasing more new emojis in the fourth quarter of 2019. From food to smiley faces, there are approximately 59 new additions which include a parachute, skunk, prosthetic arm, onion, and more couples holding hands, and many, many more.