News; Technology & Science; Smartphones; Emoticons in texts lead to SHOCKINGLY high phone bills - as smilies get charged as picture messages Smartphone users have run up unexpectedly large bills ...

Torn up by a complex decision you need to make, and that pro/con list just isn't helping? A new app called Feels can help. Feels is a recently launched app designed by three students at the ...

If you're addicted to your smartphone, you might consider switching to a dumb phone—one with calling, texting and little else. ... “The little wobble of the emoticon, ...

The study, "A Longitudinal Study of Emoticon Use in Text Messaging from Smartphones," used smartphone data from men and women over six months and aggregated 124,000 text messages.

Here's how to get them on your smartphone. Emoji, the cute, quirky pictures that show up in texts, began years ago on Japanese mobile phones. ... Emoji Push Aside Emoticons on Your Smartphone ...

However, the researchers recorded 74 different kinds of emoticons in these messages. Three emoticons – happy :), sad 🙁 and very happy 😀 – accounted for 70 percent of emoticon use. The researchers ...