Originally Posted by
DigitallyChallenged I'm surprised Samsung doesn't have this as a basic feature but I will get shortcut dial. Thanks for taking the time to answer my question.
They had it in addition with dozens and dozens of cool little features but then they have been heavily criticized for all this "gimmicks" so they decided to toned down Touch Wiz and removed a lot of features that were very useful for some, like this one and a couple of others that I'm really missing from previous Touch Wiz version.
So you can see that there is no way to please everybody, there will be always complaints no matter what they do, and even worse, haters will always hate.