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A mobile phone (cell phone), as used to text, check social media, or take <a href="/selfie/">selfies</a>. Depicted as a black or gray smartphone with a generic blue screen or multicolored app icons. Commonly used for various content concerning mobile phones, technology, and communication.

The designs from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung resemble phones offered by their respective companies, e.g., iPhone. WhatsApp&rsquo;s design features a night sky as its wallpaper, displaying the time as 9:34.

<a href="/au-kddi/type-a-2/mobile-phone/">Early designs</a> for the mobile phone emoji from au by KDDI resembled a traditional&nbsp;<a href="/telephone-receiver/">telephone receiver</a>, and vice versa, before having their codepoints swapped in later releases.

See also <a href="/mobile-phone-with-arrow/">📲&nbsp;Mobile Phone With Arrow</a>.

Mobile Phone

A sign indicating that mobile phones should be turned off. Used in&nbsp;situations such as a cinema or live performance.

Displayed as a mobile phone with the word OFF. Previously shown with a <a href="/cross-mark/" title="❌ Cross Mark">cross</a> instead of the word OFF on <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/mobile-phone-off/" title="📴 Mobile Phone Off on Microsoft Windows 10">Windows</a>.

Mobile Phone Off

A mobile phone with a red stroke through it, indicating that mobile phones should not be present. Often seen in restricted areas, such as <a href="/customs/" title="🛃 Customs">Customs</a> or <a href="/passport-control/" title="🛂 Passport Control">Passport Control</a>.

No Mobile Phones

A classic telephone, as a landline home phone. Most platforms depict a red, push-button phone with the <a href="/telephone-receiver/">handset</a> on the base.&nbsp;Some platforms feature&nbsp;designs with&nbsp;rotary dials.

Used for various content concerning literal and figurative phone calling. Also used as an icon before a phone number.

See glossary for the term <a href="/glossary/#black">black</a> in Unicode character names.

Black Telephone

A classic camera, as an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-lens_reflex_camera">SLR</a>&nbsp;used to take pictures before <a href="/mobile-phone/">camera phones</a>. Generally depicted with a black and silver casing with lens and operating controls.

Commonly used for various content concerning photography as well as an icon for a picture, as before an upload, link, or credit.

See also <a href="/camera-with-flash/">📸 Camera With Flash</a>.

Camera

CL is what shows on the CLear button of some older mobile phones.

Squared CL

A cartoon-style balloon used to represent spoken word in comics. Sometimes &nbsp;used in communication apps to&nbsp;indicate that another person is typing a message.

Speech Balloon

Two links of a silver <a href="/chains/">chain</a>, positioned at a 45&deg; angle. Used as an icon for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink">hyperlink</a> on computers and the internet. May also be used for metaphorical connections.

Not to be confused with&nbsp;<a href="/chains/">⛓️Chains</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/paperclip/">📎 Paperclip</a>, <a href="/linked-paperclips/">🖇️ Linked Paperclips</a>, or <a href="/safety-pin/">🧷 Safety Pin</a>.

Link Symbol

A&nbsp;<a href="/mobile-phone/" title="📱 Mobile Phone">mobile&nbsp;phone</a> held up to take a selfie (photo of the person holding the phone or camera). Generally represented as a disembodied arm holding a mobile phone.

Selfie

A hand with thumb and&nbsp;little (pinky) finger extended, making a traditional&nbsp;<a href="/telephone-receiver/" title="📞 Telephone Receiver">phone</a>-like shape.&nbsp;May be used in conjunction with a face to suggest&nbsp;&ldquo;call me&rdquo; (please).

Not to be confused with the <a href="/sign-of-the-horns/" title="🤘 Sign Of The Horns">sign of the horn</a>. Commonly used as a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaka_sign">shaka sign</a>, which is a similar gesture at a different orientation.

Call Me Hand

A symbol for email. Depicted as the back of an envelope imprinted with a capital letter E (for electronic) or @ (at) sign.&nbsp;Commonly used as an icon before an email address.

The envelope is generally white with the E or @ symbols shown in&nbsp;blue. Apple, Google, and Twitter&#39;s&nbsp;designs feature the letter E, while Microsoft, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Samsung&rsquo;s the @ sign.

Google&#39;s&nbsp;envelope was <a href="/google/android-8.0/e-mail/">previously</a> yellow in color.

E-Mail Symbol

Two curly loops, which&nbsp;represent&nbsp;a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Used as a symbol&nbsp;for voicemail on many phones.

A variation of this logo is used by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/フリーダイヤル">Free Dial</a>, a toll-free telephone number by NTT in Japan.

Double Curly Loop

A <a href="/mobile-phone/">mobile phone</a> (cell phone) with a <a href="/right-arrow/">rightward&nbsp;arrow</a> pointed at it from the left. Intended to indicate an incoming call or message, but used to represent mobile phones, technology, and communication more generally.

Arrow color varies, but is often blue. Vendors implement the same design as <a href="/mobile-phone/">📱 Mobile Phone</a>.

Mobile Phone with Rightwards Arrow at Left

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager">pager</a>, as worn on the waist to alert a person to a phone call&nbsp;or short text message. Popular in the 1980&ndash;90s before <a href="/mobile-phone/">mobile phones</a>, though still used by some medical and emergency personnel. Very occasionally used to represent alerts, digital communication, or nostalgia for old technology.

Depicted as a black device with operating buttons and a green screen displaying various&nbsp;numbers across platforms, including:

<ul>
	<li>Apple: 555-3215 (555 is commonly used for fake numbers in the US)</li>
	<li>Google: 1998 (the year Google was founded; <a href="/google/android-8.0/pager/">previously</a>&nbsp;showed 8888, the&nbsp;<a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns">Google DNS</a> IP address)</li>
	<li>Microsoft: [indecipherable]</li>
	<li>Samsung: 954-5684 (unknown origin;&nbsp;<a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/pager/">previously</a>&nbsp;showed SUNMOON)</li>
	<li>WhatsApp: 867-5309 (an allusion to the 1980s hit song&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny">&quot;867-5309/Jenny&quot;</a>)</li>
	<li>Twitter: 40404 (Twitter&#39;s discontinued <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/a/2010/introducing-fast-follow-and-other-sms-tips.html">SMS number</a>)</li>
	<li>Facebook: 543-4800 (Facebook Inc&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whitepages.com/phone/1-650-543-4800">phone number</a>;&nbsp;<a href="/facebook/2.0/pager/">previously</a>&nbsp;showed 02 04 20 04, referring to the company&#39;s launch date)</li>
</ul>

Pager

Headphones, used to listen to music or other forms audio, such as podcasts.&nbsp;Most platforms display this emoji with large over-ear headphones in shades of black, blue, and gray.

Apple previously displayed&nbsp;this emoji as <a href="/apple/ios-10.0/headphone/" title="🎧 Headphone on Apple iOS 10.0">iconic iPod white earbuds</a>, followed by black&nbsp;<a href="/apple/ios-10.2/headphone/">Beats headphones in 2016</a>, and in 2021 switched <a href="/apple/ios-14.5/headphone/">to display white AirPods Max</a>.

Headphone

An icon representing vibration mode on a <a href="/mobile-phone/" title="📱 Mobile Phone">mobile phone</a>, indicating that a phone should be switched to silent and/or vibrate mode.

Displayed as a phone with either zig-zag lines or muted-bell icon on most platforms. <a href="/softbank/2014/vibration-mode/">Early versions</a> of this emoji&nbsp;often used a <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/vibration-mode/">heart alongside a mobile phone</a>, as commonly <a href="https://twitter.com/alexcreid/status/1065315127216521217">seen in Japan</a>.

Vibration Mode

A red brick or bricks. Depicted in a loose stack, a single object with holes, or as built into wall, as of a <a href="/house/">house</a>, <a href="/school/">school</a>, or other structure.

Commonly used for various content concerning building and construction. May also be used for figurative bricks, e.g., slang brick, &ldquo;extremely cold (weather).&rdquo;

Brick

A dish antenna, as used to send or receive information to or from a communication <a href="/satellite/">satellite</a>&mdash;or <a href="/alien/">👽 Extraterrestrial Life</a>. Generally depicted as a mounted, metal dish with its antenna positioned at 45&deg; to the upper right.

Commonly used to represent satellite <a href="/television/">television</a>, <a href="/radio/">radio</a>, and internet, as well as broadcasting, streaming, cellular, and wireless services or technologies. May also represent various concepts of signals and transmission.

Several platforms, including Microsoft and Twitter, feature curved, radiating lines, as if transmitting data.

Satellite Antenna

A classic television set, as people watched before streaming on flatscreens.&nbsp;Depicted in various colors and styles with a screen, knobs, and, on many platforms, rabbit-ear antennae.

Commonly used for television broadcasting as well as various content involving screens, from watching <a href="/movie-camera/">movies</a> to playing <a href="/video-game/">video games</a>.

Google&rsquo;s design <a href="/google/android-8.0/television/">previously</a> featured&nbsp;a more modern-looking orange TV.&nbsp;Apple&rsquo;s <a href="/apple/iphone-os-2.2/television/">first design</a> was yellow, while&nbsp;Microsoft&rsquo;s <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/television/">previous design</a> was a flatscreen.

Television

The handset of a traditional&nbsp;<a href="/telephone/" title="☎ Black Telephone">telephone</a>, with speaker and microphone. Generally depicted in black at a 45&deg; angle.

Like <a href="/telephone/">☎️&nbsp;Telephone</a>, used for various content concerning literal and figurative phone-calling. Also used as an icon before a phone number.

Microsoft&rsquo;s design is red.

<a href="/au-kddi/type-a-2/telephone-receiver/">Early designs</a> for the telephone receiver emoji from au by KDDI resembled a mobile phone, and vice versa,&nbsp;before having their codepoints swapped in later releases.

Telephone Receiver

An electric plug, as inserted into socket to power a device. Depicted as a black, two-pronged plug at various angles at the end of a cable. Prongs are silver or gold.

Commonly used for various literal and figurative content concerning electricity and power. May also be used for various slang senses of plug, e.g., a connection or hookup.

Apple and WhatsApp&rsquo;s designs suggest a plug used in North America and Japan while other platforms, including Google and Samsung, suggest one used in Europe and many other parts of the world.

Electric Plug

The front page of a newspaper, as people once read the news before the internet. Commonly used for various content concerning news, media, and journalism as well as personal news.

Most platforms depict a nondescript masthead, images, and columns of text. Apple&rsquo;s newspaper is called The Apple Times, featuring a logo based on its&nbsp;<a href="/eagle/">🦅 Eagle</a> and a picture of its <a href="/volcano/">🌋 Volcano</a>. Facebook&rsquo;s is called Daily Feed, with a headline &ldquo;El Capitan&rdquo; and picture of that famous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Capitan">rock formation in Yosemite National Park</a>. WhatsApp&rsquo;s paper reads Daily News with a picture of a <a href="/world-map/">map</a>.

See also <a href="/rolled-up-newspaper/">🗞️ Rolled-Up Newspaper</a>.

Newspaper

A newspaper rolled up and bound, as for delivery to a house. Generally positioned at a 45&deg; angle. Commonly used for various content concerning news, media, and journalism&nbsp;as well as personal news.

See also <a href="/newspaper/">📰 Newspaper</a>.

Rolled-Up Newspaper

A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax">fax</a> machine, as scans and transmits documents over a telephone line. Common in the 1980&ndash;90s before the internet. Depicted as a white or black machine with a <a href="/telephone-receiver/">telephone handset</a>, keypad, display screen, and paper in its tray.

Sometimes used in emoji&nbsp;form as&nbsp;an alternative to the words&nbsp;facts, due to the similarity of pronounciation. In a sentence:&nbsp;&quot;all 📠 no 🖨&quot;

Fax Machine

A laptop personal computer. Depicted as a black or gray device, opened to show a dark or blue screen, keyboard, and touchpad.

Commonly used for various content concerning computer technology, work, and activity.

Previous designs resembled a <a href="/desktop-computer/">desktop computer</a>&nbsp;(e.g., <a href="/apple/ios-9.0/laptop/">iMac</a>) on many platforms, hence its Unicode name of&nbsp;Personal Computer. Apple&rsquo;s design now resembles a MacBook.

Personal Computer

Bars increasing in height, showing the strength of the mobile (cellular) phone signal. More bars signifies better reception.

Antenna with Bars

A stylized globe, with blue <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_(geography)">meridians</a> (longitudes) and latitude. Depicted with light-blue grid&nbsp;of lines on a white, blue, or empty circle.

May be used as a symbol of the internet or world wide web, global communications, international affairs, connectivity and networks, time zones, coordinates, or the world more generally.

May appear as an icon on Apple devices to change (language) keyboards.

See also <a href="/globe-showing-americas/">🌎 Globe Showing Americas</a>, <a href="/globe-showing-europe-africa/">🌍 Globe Showing Europe-Africa</a>, and <a href="/globe-showing-asia-australia/">🌏 Globe Showing Asia-Australia</a>.

Globe with Meridians

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Emojipedia

Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Animated emoji-adjacent designs used by the Skype platform.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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