Contacts - What's with the Contacts?

So... I want to pull up the name of a contact....

I've made a habit of always starting at the Home page (remember you touch the place with the little house) so that's what I do. Home - then Start and then find the icon with the person on it and down or over to that and there are my contacts but WAIT - it's last name/first name instead of the other way around.... ooohh... that is a switch I'll have to get used to.. So the menu has some things that you can do but I want to make a call and, let's say, I can't remember the contact's last name. Now what?

Well...I want to call Heidi and her last name is escaping me. I simply touch the H key and now every contact that has an H in it comes up....way too many. So I do the E key now and every contact that has HE in their name appears...ah ha... now we're down to a manageable number and, well what do you know... there is Heidi's name. So scroll down to it, hit enter and now you have her information and you can hit enter again to call her. Slick, huh?!

And now.... here's something even better... what I just outlined in the paragraph above, you can do from your home screen... even slicker!!