[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Fri13:
No, it is case of logic ad technology what should rule here, not democracy.

1. Normal, logical and sane function is that IF you have a hands-free (what comes with phone and can be used to listen music) you use the mic what is in those and never the phone microphone in speaker mode.

2. If you use hands-free, it is expected that they work as they are designed to work. That you can have your phone in your pocket, purse or anywhere else than in your hand or near your mouth. You can even cover the whole phone with sand if wanted because the speech is recorded trough microphone in hands-free. If user did not now need and test hands-free with Aurora, there comes a time when someone connects those and EXPECT THEM TO WORK.

3. Headset are designed and meant only for LISTENING sound. Not to record anything or be used on call. Yes, perfect situation would be that WHEN plugged headphone and you get a call, that you can use the microphone by holding the phone on your cheek like usually and you would hear the speech from headphone so you do not need to eject the plug from phone. But better situation would be that the jack is forgotten and the phone works normally.

4. Using this currently twisted version by forcing the use of phone microphone in speaker mode causes that call quality is bad even when not having any headphone or hands-free plugged to phone. So EVERYONE suffers from bad quality.

5. Those who use headphone and wants to have microphone forced to be used in speaker mode, they should enable that feature, it should not be default. As default, logical and sane exception is that hands-free work as they are designed to work, give a hands-free situation no matter where the phone is and give better speech quality when microphone is near your mouth. Right now hands-free and headphone users both need to pick their phone from pocket or purse and start talking to it like it would be handholded microphone. So right now headphone users just have turned their phones as wireded microphone with speakers.

6. When disabling the microphone forced speaker mode and enabling the echo cancelation, the call quality improves by everyone. The phone turns back to good phone instead a phone with barrel effect, even with those who does not have cable jack connected and those who use hands-free.

7. It does not matter what the majority wants here, as their demand is illogical and causes everyone suffer from bad call quality and they even itself are forced to hold phone in their hands. And why? Because they are too lazy to un-plug the jack from phone when call comes or too lazy to use hands-free what is technology what was designed to be used in situations what they want, like listening music and when call comes, answering to it just by pressing button in the mic and after call continued listening music.

8. And even if wanted to go argument of "Democracy", those who demands microphone being forced in speaker mode are minority here as every phone owner got hands-free with it. They want that majority are forced to suffer from same problems as they do because they chose to forget the correct technology and even that majority would use correctly hands-free technology instead wrong technology for wrong purposes. That when minority (or illogical group) is loudest one, does not make them right, especially when it is question of technology being abused and forced to be configured wrong way as it suppose to be used.

There is one situation what would make sense in specific way and it is with bluetooth hands-free and bluetooth headphone.

When a call comes and bluetooth devices are connected, the call is directed to device where the call is answered. Example. When call comes and person answer to it by pressing bluetooth hands-free button, call is directed to that device, and that microphone on that device is being used to record speech.

But when bluetooth hands-free is connected and user answers to call from phone, the phone microphone and ear speaker are used to make the call, not the bluetooth hands-free.

And if the bluetooth device is just a headphone (without a mic), then there isn't a answer button and user needs to take the phone in their hand anyways to answer the call. BUT. they should be possible to configure phone so that when that specific headphone is connected, the call could go automatically in speaker mode where sound is sended to headphone but phone microphone is used (as it is only one). But even then, it is logical and sane as that user in that case needs to pick up the phone to answer the call (as it is not hands-free where the call button is in it), it is needed to press "Speaker" button after taking call and after that the sound is transferred to bluetooth headphone and phone is in speaker mode so no one else can hear other party talking.

The reason why we have cable hands-free by default set so when its jack is connected to phone its microphone is used, is because it is a cable. And because it is a hands-free what means that the user can not touch the phone, it even is logical to assume the phone can be anywhere else than front of the user mouth and it is not going to be taken in hand so other end would hear speech.

Fact just is, those who wants to use just cable headphone and make calls, they need to unplug the jack before doing so. They anyway need to take that phone to their hands to answer to call. They don't have external microphone to be used because they use just device what is meant for playing sound, not to make calls.

The default settings need to be changed. So that by default those who use hands-free as it is suppose to be used and those who use it needs to have a hands-free, can do it logical and excepted way.

And then those who want to use headphone as they are not meant to be used, should configure their device to work un-excepted and illogical way as they want them to work.