Searching contacts or sorting by company name...

Why can't we do either of these in the iphone, I smell an upgrade...
Message was edited by: Aaron89511

No one here knows why which only Apple can answer and it isn't their MO to answer such a question.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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I would ask, why are you going into the same contact in iOS if you have already edited it in OS X? But then, I digress.
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