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

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.The new mobile phones will adopt Noto Color Emoji by Google or Samsung emoji instead, it said.The Docomo emoji were introduced in 1999 with the company's i-mode serv…READ FULL ARTICLE