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Animoji Karaoke: The weird and wonderful new iPhone X trend
Apple fans unsure about splashing £999 on the new iPhone X may be convinced once they have seen the fun Animoji Karaoke trend in action.
While some may be excited about the flagship smartphone’s beautiful edge-to-edge display or the “super retina” screen, others are enjoying experimenting with animoji - animated characters that mirror your facial expressions.
Animoji are possible thanks to the new iPhone X’s Face ID, the feature which allows users to unlock their shiny new phone with their face (unless you suffer an embarrassing demo fail).
The animated emoji feature, which includes robot, dog and unicorn characters, can be sent to entertain family and friends, but some have taken the fun a step further to create the Animoji Karaoke.
Social media users have been sharing clips of them lip-synching to songs including:
Bohemian Rhapsody
Daddy Yankee’s Gasolina
Mr Brightside
Hooked on a Feeling
Fast Company technology editor Harry McCracken, who is credited with creating Animoji Karaoke, has been sharing the best videos on his Twitter page.
“As I used a pre-release iPhone X this week, it suddenly occurred to me that it might be fun to lip-sync a song to an Animoji and have it mimic my performance,” he explains.
“Judging from my likes, retweet, and comments, I haven’t just been entertaining myself, some people said that it redeemed Animoji or justified buying a thousand-dollar phone.”
You can either save your own 10-second animated karaoke efforts to your camera roll or create longer versions using the phone’s new screen record feature.