System and method of sharing a contact list among mobile phones

A computer readable medium with instructions stored therein for sending a mobile phone contact list from a first mobile phone to a group of other mobile phones using a mobile phone messaging service, the instructions when executed by a processing device causing the processing device to perform:

• displaying the mobile phone contact list of the first mobile phone;
• selecting one or more contacts from the mobile phone contact list;
• adding contact data for the selected contacts from the mobile phone contact list to a message;
• and
• sending the message containing the contact data for the selected contacts to the group of other mobile phones using the mobile phone messaging service, the message containing control data identifying the message as containing a contact list.

A method of receiving data for a mobile phone contact list in a first mobile phone sent from a second mobile phone using a mobile phone messaging service comprising:

• receiving a message in the first mobile phone from the second mobile phone using the mobile phone messaging service;
• determining whether the received message contains data for a contact list and, if so launching a application specific software program to manage the received data for a contact list, otherwise handling the received message normally;
• displaying the received data for a contact list;
• resolving contact list data conflicts between the received data for a contact list and contact data already stored on the first mobile phone;
• and
• storing the received data for a contact list in a contact list of the first mobile phone.

A computer readable medium with instructions stored therein for receiving data for a mobile phone contact list in a first mobile phone sent from a second mobile phone using a mobile phone messaging service, the instructions when executed by a processing device causing the processing device to perform:

• receiving a message in the first mobile phone from the second mobile phone using the mobile phone messaging service;
• determining whether the received message contains data for a contact list and, if so launching a application specific software program to manage the received data for a contact list, otherwise handling the received message normally;
• displaying the received data for a contact list;
• resolving contact list data conflicts between the received data for a contact list and contact data already stored on the first mobile phone;
• and
• storing the received data for a contact list in a contact list of the first mobile phone.