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Jun 10, 2022, 01:07 PM
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Desert Kitty hates titles
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Member Since: Jul 2008
Location: TARDIS
Posts: 12,640
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Originally Posted by Breaking Dawn
I don't have a smart phone, just a flip2 with a browser. And it doesn't have its own emojis or icons. It doesn't even have a keyboard. Just the numbers & the 3 or 4 letters that go with those numbers. I push the number key the necessary number of times to type the appropriate letter. By now I can do that fairly fast. I was able to find psych central/PC (now MSF) because I got this cell phone. When I saw members using the smilies, I wished I could do that. One day I saw the smiling icon above my posting & I clicked on it & discovered the codes. I got so happy when I saw I could put them in my posts.  |
On my old Alcatel ("dumb") phone, I could do texts but only in SMS format; it didn't support links for example. And when I got a text and people sent emojis, I'd either get a square or symbols that look like math symbols. It's because it doesn't recognize the emojis or can't convert them. (I still kept my old phone because the reminder feature is more user friendly and I play games on it. )
It DOES have its own emojis, quite a bit too! But they don't show up to the recipient. I even found out that if you have an iphone and send to an Android, they may not display right or at all. (It would be so much easier if everyone in the planet had the same brand phone, LOL) I know what you mean by the multi-tap method. I had that too, but it also has "smart" text where it predicts the word you want.
Emojis are such fun to use and get the message across more than words. But because of all the different types of systems and software, they don't always convert. If I stick to the basic emojis from the smartphone's keyboard, they seem to show up. Tapatalk is more iffy, but if I was posting on it and others were using it too, we'd be able to see the same things I believe. (Like if I'm sending PM's to someone who is also using it to PM me) There's keyboard strokes too, like <3 will convert to a heart......sometimes.
This box has options under it, where you could check the box "disable smiles in text" so even this site has that option.
I'm glad you found a way to use them, Breaking Dawn.....
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