Do anybody know what it (^ε^) means?

Do anybody know what it (^ε^) means?

My friends from Japanese always send me the emotion icons from their mobile phones. Is there any information I can get from the web which is useful for understanding these sort of things.

Isn't that just a... face with friendly eyes and funny lips? To me that's just a smiling, friendly face. Something like a :)

Well, this symbol describes someone who is whistling. So it often means that the sender is "in a good mood" or "happy."
At least, this is how I use this symbol.

it can also be a kiss
depends on who's using it and what the situation is

In my cellphone this symbol has "chuu" after it, which I have been told is a kissing sound like "mwa". You use your lips in a similar way to whistle or kiss, so as above it could be either.

http://www.kaomoji.com/kao/text/index.html
http://ranking.goo.ne.jp/ranking/092/facemark
http://club.pep.ne.jp/%7ehiroette/en/facemarks/body.html
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A1%94%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97

kaomoji or facemark in japanese (or emoticons in English) is what it is.

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These are sites I found quickly, but I do recall in tokyo, there was a handout in the cell phone brochures for the girls that had a full list of these emoticons in Japanese.

If you're in japan, that's one of the places to start looking.

http://www.kaomoji.net/
http://www.facemark.jp/f-ohayou.htm
they've even got windows software for your PC so you can ^o^ add them right into your email replies!

Although the basics are pretty standard, it's not unusual to see complex (*′ω`)ﾉﾞ*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟこんぬづゎ☆ in replies nowadays....

It's a kissing face. The accompanying sound would be "chuu" like "mwah" in English. My girlfriend does this to me all the time :D

a complaining face too? You know in a Japanese cartoon when someone's complaining, they draw their lips like that "buuuuuu..." or in a drama when someone's complaining? I could be wrong though, but that's what came to my mind...

No, that one is definitely recognised by most people as a kiss, because the eyes look happy. I have an emoji on my phone under the "Angry" category with the same lips, but the eyes are different and it is clearly not a happy face. These eyes: ^^
are always part of a happy face,