[jinzhen]

A soft reset later, It seems I can't duplicate this issue so maybe it was temporary, and thus I'm happy yay.



Edited***
Nope, sending a test to myself worked, but then after texting another friend and trying again....the issue remains.
It seems as though after selecting the contact name, as long as you dont try to remove it, the phone doesn't freeze....otherwise as soon as you press backspace to try to remove it, and then switch from landscape to portrait by closing the hardware keyboard, the phone becomes unresponsive, thus causing the need to do a software reset.