Mobile terminal and method for displaying information list thereof

A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:

• displaying, via a display unit including a touch screen, data stored in a memory associated with the mobile terminal;
• classifying, via a controller of the mobile terminal, the requested stored data into at least a first category of data and a second category of data, the first category of data further classified into at least two subcategories of data and the second category of data not further classified into multiple subcategories of data;
• displaying, on the display unit, the first category of data in a first list parallel to the second category of data in a second list when the mobile terminal is in a first orientation;
• controlling the first list and the second list based on a touching action performed on the first list and the second list;
• and
• when an orientation of the mobile terminal detected by a sensing unit of the mobile terminal changes from the first orientation to a second orientation, displaying the at least two subcategories of data in a first subcategory list and a second subcategory list parallel to the first subcategory list in place of the first category of data in the first list and display the second category of data in the second list parallel to the first and second subcategory lists,
• wherein first subcategory data included in the first category of data is moved and aligned into the first subcategory list and second subcategory data included in the first category of data is moved and aligned into the second subcategory list, when the detected orientation changes from the first orientation to the second orientation.