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Japan telecom giant NTT Docomo to end own emoji after 26 yrs

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Japanese telecom giant NTT Docomo Inc. will retire its set of original emoji whose release 26 years ago helped shape the visual language of today's digital communications. The carrier's Android smartphones and feature phones marketed from June will not come with the Docomo emoji set. Announcing the decision in late May, the firm said they had "fulfilled their role" while noting that Google's emoji had become more common globally. Read full story…

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After 26 years of honored service, the Japanese telecommunications company Ntt Docomo says goodbye to the original emojis, leaving room for the most common ones of the main search engines and telephone operators. As of this month, in fact, the smartphones and Android phones marketed by the carrier, will no longer be equipped with the classic set of Docomo pictograms. The new mobile phones will adopt instead the symbols of Noto Color Emoji Google…

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Kyodo News+ broke the news in Japan on Sunday, June 8, 2025.
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