telephone emoji meaning
A ☎ telephone is a telecommunications device that lets you communicate with others when they are too far apart to be heard directly. The telephone emoji shows an old fashioned landline phone with a receiver and a dial that was used until 30 years ago.
The Apple telephone emoji is red in colour while the Google version is grey. The WhatsApp version features a green phone while the Samsung version has a dark grey image.
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How to use telephone emoji
History of the ☎ emoji
Telephone was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993 under the name “Black Telephone” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
| Codepoints | U+260E |
| Shortcodes | :phone:,:telephone: |
| Also known as | Rotary Phone Telephone |
How ☎ is displayed online
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Apple
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Twitter
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One
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Facebook
