WhatsApp Update for Android Set to Add Some New Emojis

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For WhatsApp users who have ever wished for a "middle finger emoji" to convey their emotions, the wait is over. Now, users of the mobile messaging app on Android devices get treated to this emoji, which is offered in an array of skin tones, along with other new features. WhatsApp has revealed it is making available to its Android users added features, which include new emojis, custom notifications, as well as a new "low data" mode for phone calls. Apart from the middle finger emoji, the app also offers the Vulcan salute from Star Trek available in different skin tones as well. The Vulcan salute emoji, reports say, is also supported on iOS. WhatsApp users on Android are all set to receive a bunch of new emojis with an upcoming update. The latest version of the WhatsApp for Android app (v2.12.374) which is now available from the company's website as well as from APK Mirror adds a number of emojis with new facial expressions as well as new characters. We can expect WhatsApp to start pushing the update to Android users via Google Play soon. Some of the new emojis introduced with the latest app version include spider, unicorn, popcorn box, champagne bottle, racing cars, medals, and volleyball among others. The new update also adds a new detective emoji to the facial expression tab. Previously, WhatsApp for Android included only five tabs for emojis apart from a recently used tab. In the latest version there are eight tabs with new sports, flag, bulb, and a separate beverage tabs. There are new facial expressions for hugs, upside down smiles, dollar signs, rolling eyes, nerds, and extreme sadness, among others. There is a new sign of the horns gesture that joins the previously added vulcan (Spock) salute and raised middle finger. Family emojis have been extended with the addition of plenty of LGBT choices. Among other novelties, the nature tab sees a turkey, shamrock, spider, unicorn; the food tab has a popcorn box, popped champagne bottle, taco, burrito, hot dog; and sports/activities get their separate tab and now include racing cars, medals, ice skating, volleyball, weightlifting, and a quirky levitating man in a business suit. The new set of added emojis to WhatsApp seems to be from Unicode 7 and Unicode 8 which previously debuted on Apple's mobile operating system with the iOS 9.1 update. Google recently confirmed that new range of emojis will be rolling out to Android devices soon. The company confirmed that the Nexus range would be the first devices to add support for the new emojis. WhatsApp for Android late last month received an update which bumped the version number to 2.12.367 and brought language support for Urdu and Bengali, apart from other additions. New travel destinations and palces of worship have been added too. The objects now get their own tab with crossed swords, shopping bags, a joystick, a microphone, a waving white flag, and a rather grim coffin and funeral urn. Flags have been separated from symbols, and the latter see new additions like playback control buttons. Oh, and the hearts have moved to the symbols tab instead of being included with faces and people. - See more at: http://www.khanstory.com/2015/12/whatsapp-update-for-android-set-to-add.html#sthash.zqRKCdcQ.dpuf