As reported a while back, Gmail is finally here with its emoji reactions which help to “quickly express” yourself. The new way seems intuitive and can be worth checking while having informal communication with your friends and family. Adding Emojis in Gmail seems like “bringing the fun to your inbox.”

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Over time, Emails have become quite formal, and even their use is getting limited for some formal communication. The new initiative to add emojis seems like bringing back some charm to communication which was once termed as “evolution”.

The emojis in Gmail can be quite expressive rather than the words. It would be great to react with emojis on some hotel reservation emails, or if a friend or family shared your childhood photo over the mail. There could be many such instances where reactions would be better than typing some text back as a reply.

Google is rolling out the reactions support in Gmail for its iOS and Android apps. The users will start receiving support on both the mobile and desktop clients from this month. However, the feature won’t work if you are using any third-party email client like Outlook, etc. Instead, the reaction would be sent as a reply to the email.

So, don’t be surprised if you see emojis as a reaction to some email in the near future.

Google keeps bringing new features and enhancements for its services and products, we have seen several feature additions for Gmail in the past. Hope the trend keeps going on!

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WhatsApp might be working on an interesting new feature for its popular chat application for desktops. The company could soon offer animated emojis on its messaging platform, so here are all the details.

WhatsApp Animated Emojis might soon hit the beta

Meta is reportedly working on this feature that would like to add a new interactive/expressive element to chats. This feature might soon be available on an upcoming beta for the WhatsApp desktop app. The news arrives from WABetaInfo who also shared a GIF that showcases this feature. Looking at this animated emoji, we can see the Party Horn and Party Hat emoji bouncing around as it does a full 360 degree rotate.

It is unclear how exactly one accesses these animated emojis, but WhatsApp might share the animated version of a specific emoji instead of the static one if the user only sends a single emoji. Keep in mind that it also needs a animated version to offer this functionality. Since the feature is supposedly making its way to the WhatsApp desktop beta, we can expect it to also be soon available in the smartphone mobile beta app version as well.

With animated emoji’s, the userbase can expect to have a new have of interaction and expression in group chats. This, in turn, will make the chatting experience more fun and have the platform better company with iMessage and even Google’s Messages app that have supported animated emojis for years now.

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Double Eleven is considered the biggest shopping festival in China. Retailers not only offer heavy discounts but also run different types of promotions including games and whatnot during the sales period. The latest such marketing by Tmall involves emojis.

Tmall ( previously Taobao Mall) is one of the leading eCommerce firms in China. The Alibaba Group-owned company competes against the likes of JD and Suning in the region.

These businesses compete fiercely during the 11.11 (Double Eleven, November 11) aka Singles’ Day shopping festival. Hence, they try their best to lure in more shoppers during this period.

Ahead of the 2021 edition of the festival, Tmall has introduced a new way for customers to search for products on its platform. Instead of typing words, shoppers can simply insert emojis and let the algorithm suggest products.

A report by MyDrivers says that the emoji search function in Tmall is currently under ‘heavy-duty public testing’. At present, it supports 400 commonly used emojis.

With more people using the feature during the Double Eleven shopping festival and beyond, the algorithm could get better in the future. Since emojis now play a key role in our day-to-day conversations online, there’s a high chance of success for this feature.

This is not the first time Tmall has introduced something unique. The eCommerce giant is also known for improving the shopping experience via features like cart sharing, using images to buy medicines for elders, and more.

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Today, July 17 is considered as World Emjoi Day. On the occasion of this, Google’s first-party keyboard app known as GBoard adds a new quick-access emoji bar. This feature is currently limited to the beta version of the Android app.

Gboard is one of the best keyboard apps for smartphones. It is available for both Android and iOS devices. Google regularly updates this app with new features and functionalities every now and then like its other apps.

Now, according to a report by Engadget, Gboard gets a new emoji row at the top above the keys. This row will include the most emojis by users. Since conversations are incomplete without emojis these days, the new feature is a welcome addition.

Normally, to access emojis on Gboard, users have to tap on emoji icon and then select the emoji they need to use. But with the new quick-access emoji bar (that’s what Google is calling it), users can insert emojis in their chats with a single tap.

Apart from most used and suggested emojis, the quick-access bar at the top also includes an option to access all the emojis. And for those who seldomly use emojis, they can disable this row in the app settings.

Having said that, as we mentioned in the beginning, this feature is currently only available on Gboard Beta for Android. To use it, either enrol yourself in the beta program from the app listing on Google Play Store or download the latest beta APK from APKMirror.

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Twitter India released a special emoji that celebrates the 71st Republic Day of India. It is celebrated each year on the 26th of January.

Indian President, Ram Nath Kovind, will be using this emoji for his tweet, according to Twitter India. The emoji will be used as he addresses the nation as people all over the country will also participate in a public conversation in the same thread. Mahima Kaul, Director, Public Policy, India and South Asia, Twitter India stated that the Republic Day emoji was created to “resonate” with the Indian users across different cultures, languages, places. In other words, give the people yet another reason to celebrate and participate in the historic day for the Southeast Asian nation.

The emoji is currently available on the platform and will remain active until 30th January 2020. It is found in English alongside ten different regional languages which are commonly spoken within the country, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu and Gurmukhi.

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Notably, this marks the fifth consecutive year in which the social media giant has supported the Republic Day in India with a custom emoji on its platform. Similarly, Twitter is also known to celebrate other major occasions in the country like Independence Day, Diwali, Republic Day, Gandhi Jayanti and a few other notable milestones in the nation’s history.

The idea with emojis is to keep Indian cultural identity and sentiments as a large chunk of Twitter’s userbase is from the country. Thus, emojis are designed in such a particular fashion.

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Engraving is not a new thing and Apple has long offered such the option for selected products. The engraving option has been available for AirPods as well, but it was limited to text only. Now the company is expanding the engraving option for AirPods to include emojis as well. Yes, you heard that right, you engrave an emoji onto your AirPods case.

“New personal engraving options, from A to emoji” states Apple in a new banner featured on the home page of its website. You can now customize AirPods in the Apple Online Store through the “Personalize it for free” option that appears when you select the earphones. The current options are fairly limited, but all the most popular emojis are mostly there.

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Users can also add text to personalize their devices, with Apple introducing a new uppercase typeface that offers more pop than the original typeface, which was lower case and smaller on the AirPods. Right now, it’s not possible to mix emoji and text – you must choose one or the other, though, for text-based options, you can add numbers and dates.

Once you add a pair of AirPods or AirPods Pro to your basket, you can click on the ‘Add Engraving’ option and run through the short engraving process. The offer right now is available in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, and a few other countries where iPhone maker can exercise direct online sale.

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The latest version of Whatsapp Beta sees the popular messaging app bring its own emoji set. Prior to that, the emojis available on the platform were those available on iOS and worked on other operating systems. This made it possible for emojis to be interpreted the same way irrespective of the device the sender or the receiver was using.

The new emoji set is still similar to that of iOS but you sure would know it has seen some changes. The eyes and mouths of the smileys are one of the differences. The animal emojis are different or and are facing a different direction. Others are just a different color. Another addition is the support for Emoji 5.0, the latest version approved by Unicode. Below are sample images – the old emoji set on the left and the new ones on the right.

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The update is available in the Android beta version 2.17.364 but until a stable version is available will we be able to confirm if there are no further changes to the emoji set.

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Whatsapp has been adding a number of new features in the last couple of months. There is picture-in-picture video calling now but only available to devices running Android 8.0. In addition to the 24hr picture status, there is also a text only status with the same 24hr life.

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