Telephone Receiver with Page is a proposed or suggested emoji-style symbol concept associated with the broader Unicode and emoji expansion discussions of the early-to-mid 2010s, when many communication, office, and messaging icons were being considered for compatibility and everyday usefulness. It was not approved as a standard emoji and does not exist as an official Unicode emoji character. The idea can be understood as a hybrid of a telephone handset and a document, representing a phone message, call record, fax-related communication, voicemail note, office memo, or someone needing to return a call.
People may have wanted an emoji like this because existing phone emojis cover calling, mobile phones, and receivers, but not the common situation of taking a message or attaching written information to a call. Symbolically, it could express โplease call back,โ โI left a message,โ โphone paperwork,โ โcustomer service request,โ โoffice communication,โ or the slightly old-fashioned ritual of writing down a message from a landline call. In internet and meme contexts, it might have been used humorously for bureaucratic phone tag, missed-call drama, workplace admin, or the retro aesthetics of fax machines and desk phones.
No widely recognized official Apple or Unicode artwork exists for this candidate, so any appearance should be treated as conceptual rather than canonical. In proposal-style mockups or an iOS-like design, it would likely have resembled a dark gray or black telephone receiver placed beside or partly over a white sheet of paper, possibly with blue or gray text lines and a folded corner, rendered with the glossy skeuomorphic styling common to early Apple emoji. Its closest approved emoji relatives are the Telephone Receiver, Memo, Pager, Fax Machine, Mobile Phone, and Envelope symbols, but none combine a handset and page in exactly this way.
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This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
