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as the above poster mentioned... slither announced a comeback after being gone for a long time... he's the one that replicated the cube to work on other devices besides the touch. he said he was going to completely rework it a couple months ago, but he hasn't really said much since then so who knows if it'll ever happen. do a search for slither cube at xda...

stevedog, jquill... get a room lol
thanks for the entertainment though

to the op.. since you want to keep tf3d, get icontacts burt edition if u dont already have it and assign it to your homescreen soft key... in the settings, set it to open your favorites at launch.. then your 9 contacts or more will show up right there. this will save you a few more seconds and you wont have to sit around typing out people's names in the dialer. you could also assign it to the long hold of the answer key... Personally, i just press my send key and it brings up the dialer.. from there i press the contacts soft key and it takes me to the favorites of icontacts.. oh yeah, if you long press on a contact in icontacts, it will call them right away.
something tells me you want eyecandy AND quick functionality. You can't have it both ways... sacrifice one or the other... or learn to deal with a couple extra flicks or seconds... as long as you don't have a severe case of ADD, it shouldn't kill you.

oh and you could also get ftouchsl (the app that uses swipes to bring other programs up) and use it to launch icontacts favorites or any other contact app by swiping up... icontacts B.E. is probably one of the fastest tho.