The mobile phone emoji is the digital stand‑in for your pocket-sized life support system—texts, memes, maps, and that one alarm you always snooze. It screams “text me,” “DM me,” or “I’m glued to my screen,” and it also works for flexing new-phone energy, arranging calls, or joking about screen-time shame. People drop it in for anything from “I’ll call you later” to “my phone is blowing up,” plus sarcastic takes like telling someone to touch grass… via phone, of course.
On Apple/iOS, it appears as a sleek, black iPhone-style slab with rounded corners, thin bezels, and a glossy, blue-gradient display—often shown at a slight angle like it’s ready for a dramatic unboxing video. It’s instantly readable as a modern smartphone: minimal, shiny, and just begging for fingerprints. In internet culture, it pairs well with gossip updates, FaceTime plans, “phone eats first” food pics, and the eternal doomscroll. It can be flirty (“drop your number 📱”), dramatic (“don’t call me, I’m in airplane mode”), or awkwardly honest (“left on read, my bad”).
Definition
An iPhone from Apple computer icon. Hopefully hardware version 2.2 or above. Old emoji name: iPhone.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
171 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:iphone:
Keywords
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Communication Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Artifacts
Unicode Subcategory
Communication Symbols
Names & Annotations
MOBILE PHONE
Symbol Information
U+1F4F1 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-525
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#75 'Mobile phone' 携帯電話 U+E688 SJIS-F8E9 JIS-7827
KDDI
#161 電話３ U+E588 SJIS-F7A5 JIS-7827
Softbank
#244 #old10 携帯電話 U+E00A SJIS-F94A
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Decimal HTML Entity

Hexadecimal HTML Entity

Hex Code Point(s)
e00a
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E00A
Decimal Code Point(s)
57354
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x80 0x8A
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 80 8A
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 200 212
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE00A
UTF-16 Hex
e00a
UTF-16 Dec
57354
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E00A
UTF-32 Hex
E00A
UTF-32 Dec
57354
Python Src
u"\uE00A"
PHP Src
"\xee\x80\x8a"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE00A"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
📱
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
📱
Decimal HTML Entity
📱
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
📱
Hex Code Point(s)
1f4f1
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4F1
Decimal Code Point(s)
128241
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0xB1
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 93 B1
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 223 261
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCF1
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddcf1
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56561
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4F1
UTF-32 Hex
01F4F1
UTF-32 Dec
128241
Python Src
u"\U0001F4F1"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x93\xb1"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCF1"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
