i've noticed..

Enabling emoticons on iPhone allows you to use them in messages to other iPhone users, whether they have enabled the emoticon keyboard or not. I’m pretty much going to steal this post from Appmodo. It’s not like I have a large audience, but I feel the people I do reach would like this information.

To enable emoticons on your iPhone keyboard you have to activate the Emoji international keyboard. To do this, follow these (very strange) steps:

1. - Download the free app “Spell Number” from the app store
2. - Start the app and enter the number 91929394.59 and hit “return”
3. - Go to your iPhone Settings
4. - In settings, Select General > Keyboard > International Keyboards
5. - Find the Japanese Keyboard settings
6. - Enable the “Emoji” keyboard

Now that you’ve enabled the icons, you can use them almost anywhere you can enter text on the iPhone. To do this you simply select the Globe Icon in the bottom left corner of your keyboard.