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by ianburrell 3178 days ago
Phone numbers are also entered into contacts and other places with the number pad keyboard. The numpad keyboard works better on bigger screens than the full dial pad since it occupies bottom of screen.

Replacing the dial pad with the numpad keyboard would solve the problem and not require custom layout. It would also be more consistent across applications that do calls instead of having a special dial pad for the phone app.