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[Eran Benjamin <obelisk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think the dialler needs some love (and maybe a grep or two).

1. Finding the contact to dial; I noticed that people hardly remember 
telephone numbers any more, so it makes sense to either do a dial-pad 
recognition (recognise letters from the number pad and suggest a contact 
via partial match), or send me directly to a text search field with a 
keyboard (which will also do a match on the name, or part of it, or 
maybe from other fields in the contact).

Sending me to a dial-pad which doesn't do auto-search, and then making 
me click once for the full list (which is too long to scroll), and then 
another click on magnifying glass to get to the search keyboard....
It's a lot to do while cycling or driving.

2. Two stage dialling; I use a service with a two stage dialling, first 
I dial an access number, it answers and provides me a dial tone so I can 
dial the actual destination.
This is used mostly for expensive international calls (first you call 
the local number of the service provider, and when you hear a tone you 
dial the international destination).

a. First problem is keeping both numbers in the contact similar to 
Nokia, IOS and Android ("access-umber,,destination number" where the "," 
acts as a pause character). The phone just tries to dial both numbers 
including the commas and fails (of course).

b. Second problem happens if I manually try to dial the first number and 
then, after it's answered, type the digits of the destination in the 
num-pad. When I bring my hand close to the phone to type, it thinks that 
it's my head and dims the screen.
So I can't dial digits manually after the call is answered.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Eran