iOS 5 Brings Social Contact Integration With Facebook, LinkedIn, and More

Posted June 10, 2011 at 2:06pm by iClarified | Please help us and submit a translation by clicking here | 8879 views

iOS 5 features social contact integration with Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Myspace, reveals AllThingsD.

Alongside a person's email address and phone number, an iOS user can also add links to their accounts around the Web. Then Apple auto-populates the URL for each of the services. Clicking on the account name opens up Safari to that person's profile page.

This quick access to a contacts social pages is definitely useful. The feature isn't working 100% yet but that is to be expected from a beta.

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PacMan - June 10, 2011 at 2:39pm
So, it\'s not only Twitter integration in iOS 5 but also Facebook and other social media? Awesome :)
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