Improvement Suggestions - Contacts/Phone List/Calling

To make a phone call, I usually go into my contacts list and find the person I want to call. I then touch the appropriate number and make the call. When the call is over - succesful or not - the screen reverts to the phone app, specifically the log of all calls. This is extremely annoying. If the call has been unsuccesful, the next thing I may want to do is try another number for the same person. The screen should revert to the contact information of the person called. That way the user could simply touch and call one of the other numbers.
Secondly, it is entirely unclear to me why the contacts list under the phone app does not appear like the contact list in the contact app. In the contact app, favorites show up on the top of the list. Why is this not the same in the phone app list? Even in the search screen of the contacts app, the favorites are at the top. Why isn't this so in the phone app? It's ridiculous and incredibly inefficient that they aren't.
Please change both of these items. It makes both these functions so clutzy to use the way you have it now. Inelegant does not even come close to describing it.

I don't know the "why".
But they are different. I can see instances where they could be different for many reason.
People use their BlackBerry for much more calling contacts on the phone: Email, twitter, SMS.
LM1515 wrote:
The contact list and the phone contacts should be bringing up the very same function - not the same data put into two different functions that operate differently.
OK. Open your Phone app.
Touch bottom bar far left icon for the Call Log (looks the phone receiver with the in/out arrows.
Top of that screen... you should have Voice Mail, and space for Phone Favs, if you've not added any, you;ll see three spots with "Add Number", etc.
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