NEW: Android and iPhone owners are about to get 72 new emojis to play with
Love them or hate them it looks like emojis are here to stay.
72 new designs have just been signed off and they could be landing on your phone soon.
The Unicode Consortium, the non-profit organisation that co-ordinates the computing industry standard for text and symbol sets, approved the new emojis last week.
The updated list of symbols will include new foods, faces, objects and sports and will be made available on June 21st 2016.
Sadly this doesn't mean you'll be using them by the end of this month.
The guys at emojipedia have created mockups for every emoji, showing how they think they will look – see below.
COMING SOON: The list of new emojis arriving on your phone
Both Apple and Google will have to update their operating systems before the emojis can be used and this isn't likely to happen until later this year.
Apple is expected to unveil its new iOS 10 operating system on Monday 13th June at its yearly WWDC conference but this won't be ready for consumers until September.
Meanwhile Google's Android N has already be revealed but there's no official launch date for the new OS.
Amongst the new emojis iPhone and Android smartphone owners will be able to send later this year are 22 new "Smileys and People", including a face to represent rolling on the floor laughing, a nauseated face, a clown, a pregnant woman, a dancing man and a face palm.There's also an emoji of someone taking a selfie, and a black heart symbol.
A gorilla, fox, deer, bat, rhinoceros, eagle, duck, owl, lizard, shark, shrimp, squid, and butterfly emoji have all been added to the "Animals" category.
Unicode 9 adds 18 new "Food and Drink" emoji, including a new crispy bacon symbol. A baguette, croissant, paella, falafel and green salad have also been added.
Source: Mirror UK
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