Searching for contacts quickly... What a pain!

Don't get me wrong... I love the whole touch pad thing.
Its so easy to browse for contacts entered.
However, when you sync to corporate exchange environment and get over 3000 contacts its becomes a pain to search for a number when you are trying to dial.
Unlike Blackberry, I hope apple is able to implement afeature that you can start entering (typing) a name and it narrows your search based on the letter you type.
That is unless its already there and i can't find it.
Any takers?

That's not what this thread is asking about. The letters on the side are helpful ONLY if you know the "sort-by" name of the person you are looking for. If you're sorting by last name, but only know their first name, the "starts with letter" list is unhelpful.
As I posted in another thread:
Right now, I've sorted my Phone contacts by last name. Suppose I want to call "Michael" but I don't know his last name. In Mac OS X (along with the really good smartphones), I would typically be able to enter his first name and have all the Micahels in my contacts list show up. Not only that, I'd also get search results for anyone who worked for a company called "Michael", or even someone who had "Michael" in their notes field (perhaps I'm looking for "Michael's Secretary"?)
I suggest that everyone go to http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html and submit a request for CONTACT SEARCH in the phone app!
If you notice the letters on the right, just tap the
letter of the contact name and it takes you to that
letter...

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