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The Smoking Treo Emoticon

Filed in archive Palm , Smartphones , Wireless Living by Rico Mossesgeld on December 04, 2006

This Easter Egg works on the Treo 650 or 680; on both of them, a colon immediately followed by an exclamation point (:!) in an SMS becomes a smoking smiley. Now you can invite your friends outside for a smoke via SMS! I've yet to see if this also happens on a Treo 700p, 700w, 700wx, 750v, or even the 600. Maybe you can help me out, dear readers?

Surely revealing this secret will open Palm to legal liability. After all, allowing Treo users to create smokers on their smartphones must be getting people addicted to nicotine links

, right? Whatever. Any client, lawyer, or judge who thinks such a case has merit (I'm looking at you, ultra-litigious USA!) must be an idiot.

Update: A user on CoolSmartphone's forums has discovered the smiley works on the 750v as well.

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Response from: no image Sasha Manuel (Check me out!)

This makes me want to buy a Treo --- just to use that smiley! LOL.

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Another one: :| (| is available via the Alt-/)

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And Yinyang: :%

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@Sasha: Surely you want the smartphone for more than that! :D @fransbr: Thanks for the heads up fransbr. Do you know where if there's a guide on these hidden smileys? :)

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please more emoticons and bless you for these three

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Response from: no image Drug Rehab (Check me out!)

It looks to me like a translation that only Palm devices do, as the MS OS on an imate displays :! and not the smiley face smoking like on a treo

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Designing such an emoticon is not that difficult, I guess it shouldn't have appeared. It suggests that smoking is cool and more teenagers will fall into this trap.

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Filed in archive Palm , Smartphones , Wireless Living by Rico Mossesgeld on December 04, 2006

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