The dialer in lumia 800 is missing key critical fe...

I have had my Lumia800 for about 5 months now, and I am not happy.
Previously I have owned both Iphones and android phones, and WP7.5 - or Lumia800 - is way way behind these phones on even very simple features.
I could mention a whole list of key features that I am missing, but I will restrain myself to the dialer and some privacy issues, since they are for sure driving me back to the competitors on my next phone purchase.
Dialer:
The dialer in Lumia800 is featurewise at the level of a 1995 phone.
A simple feature such as presenting the last digits of a previously dialed number - when the phone is trying to guess what you are dialing - or being able to seek a number in your list from the alphabetic keys, is something i have buy an app to get. This should - as a minimum - have been included as standard at launch date!!!
I was even expecting some  new and innovtive features as well!
Also. When somebody allready in my list has called me, I only see the name in the "recent calls" list. If the name has 3 phone numbers attached to it - like Home, Work and Cell - it is not possible to see which of these numbers that person called me from. So when I try to return the call, I sometimes end up having to dial all 3 of them before I get hold of them.
Now, that is just plain stupid.
Also, it takes way way to many interactions with the phone to even get to the phone app - which simply MUST be the killer app on a mobile phone.
Privacy!
To my very big suprice and anger, all my phone numbers were automatically put on the internet, without my knowledge - when i transferred them from my Android HTC. I only accidently found out.
Now, I dont care wether it is supposed to be an accoount that only I can access, since we all know how good the hackers are. I simply have absolutely NO interest in having my contacts, photos, sms's or ANY other stuff from my phone ANYWHERE on the internet.
That I cannot put a contact into my phone without having it synchronised to the internet is nothing less but a scandal.You consider it a feature. I consider it a serious breach of and attack on my privacy!
On even the newest Iphones I can synchronise directly between my PC and my outlook or any other contact management system with an Iphone interface made for it - without being connected to the internet at all.
Why in heavens name can I not do that on a NOKIA Windows phone????
NOKIA, make it happen!
Thank you!

Hi cestla,
Thanks for posting and Welcome.
You raise a number of questions on making calls with the Lumia. The first I can see how that might be desirable for some, I suggest your visit this site to make your request known.
The second point is actually implemented. When you look at the call history you will see the callers name (or number if the name is not known) and on the line below that the call status, call data and the number used. If you select the entry to re-dial it will use the same number used for the original call.
The number of actions needed to setup a call depend on which way you choose to do this.
Call tile on startpage > Keypad Icon > Enter number
People tile on startpage > Select person to call > Select number to call
Press and hold START > Press speak > say 'CALL Pete Mobile'  (speech functionality depends on localized availability)
As to your comments on contact information there are options available for keeping these offline. For instance you can use a Google account to copy the contacts to your  phone, then set the account to not sync contacts (and/or calendar) with Google and remove them from the online account. You can also choose to use a (private) Exchange server.
Also I assume you are aware that most if not all other smartphones like iOS, Android and Symbian devices will synchronize your contacts and/or calendar information to their cloudservice just like Windows Phone does with Windows Live.
While I can understand ones reservations to some extend it is a much more convenient way of synchronizing as it will not require you to have access to your PC and keep your contacts and calendars in sync 24/7 without required interaction in a secure enviroment.
Hope this helps,
Kosh
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