📱 Meaning – Mobile Phone Emoji

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The mobile phone emoji is generally used in relation to a phone call. It rarely refers to the device itself, the emoji mostly being used to express an incoming call or the intent to call someone. Writting Mobile Phone Emoji is as if saying “Someone is calling me!” or “I am going to call someone.” or “Pick up the phone!”.

The Mobile Phone Emoji appeared in 2010, and also known as the Cell Phone Emoji. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Cell Phone Symbol.

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Mobile Phone Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F4F1
Unicode name: Mobile Phone
Category: Objects / Phone
Keywords: cell, mobile, phone, telephone, communication
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F4F1
Decimal HTML Entity: 📱
Hex HTML Entity: 📱
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83D 0xDCF1
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone
Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

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🌐 Mobile Phone Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	Mobiltelefon	Handy, Smartphone
Français	téléphone portable	téléphone
Русский	мобильный телефон	мобильник, мобильный, смартфон, сотовый, телефон
Español	teléfono móvil	celular, móvil, teléfono
Italiano	telefono cellulare	cellulare, telefono
Português	telefone celular	celular, telefone, telefone móvel
Polski	telefon komórkowy	komóra, komórka, smartfon, telefon

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How to type Mobile Phone Emoji

There are number of methods to type Mobile Phone Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 📱 emoji

It's very easy to get Mobile Phone Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 📱 meaning and look at 📱 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

📱 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.