Mobile phone interfaces should get with the social times

So says Pieter Streicher, the managing director of BulkSMS.com, who maintains that "it is ridiculous that many aspects of the mobile phone user interface haven't changed in ten years, especially when it comes to contact management and SMS functionality."

As the mobile phone becomes more and more ingrained in our daily lives, and as it gets harder and harder to separate work from family and leisure time, designers and manufacturers need to help users with systems that categorise the types of content users are dealing with. Social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook allow users to manage their contacts, build lists and 'unfriend' or 'unfollow' people.

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