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A ‘Humin’ approach to smartphone contacts

Internet entrepreneur Ankur Jain thinks smartphones are still pretty stupid when it comes to displaying and searching for contacts.

He believes his new address-book app (right), will change that.

Humin, which launches Thursday in Apple’s App Store, will apply social media context to contacts, such as location, photos and where people met.

A New Yorker who flies to LA, for example, would see his or her LA-based contacts displayed more prominently by Humin.

The app, which is free, also lets users enter information about where and how they met — a feature that could prove useful for the forgetful or those with face blindness.

“The phone, plus contacts app, is the one thing that hasn’t really changed in decades,” Jain told The Post.

“It’s still just a giant alphabetical list of contacts with Aaron at the top. It seemed crazy that our ‘smartphones’ were still so dumb,” he added.

Humin, backed by a handful of guys with other overlapping investments, hasn’t yet determined how it will make money off the app.

The company’s first goal is to expand its user base, Jain said.

The app will be available to Android users in a few weeks.