There will reportedly be a total of 164 new digital hieroglyphics, released as part of the Emoji 17.0 and Unicode 17.0 beta.
Unicode plans to add 8 new emojis next year, including Bigfoot and a Google-inspired treasure chest. Reading emoji proposal ...
However, since this is a toy, it will not use the communication channels pagers used back in the day, as users need to 'link' their devices via a physical tap of each emojam to connect them to friends ...