Omnihear for phone calls?

I still take mine out for phone calls, mostly out of habit. The Omnihear amplifies whatever is around you, so if you hold the phone to your ear with it in, you get this weird doubled sound where you hear the caller both through the phone and picked up by the mic. Some people probably don’t mind it but I found it annoying enough that I just pop it out for calls. For face to face chats it’s actually where it shines, that’s the whole reason I keep using it. Phone calls over speaker work a little better than holding it to your ear, but I wouldn’t say it was built with calls in mind. It’s not a headset so there’s no audio streaming or anything like that. So yeah, plan on taking it out when the phone rings unless you want to experiment with how it sounds to you.

Phone calls are actually the one thing I don’t bother with mine for. I just prefer holding the phone to my regular ear since that’s what I’m used to, and the Omnihear stays in for everything else.

I keep mine in for calls but usually switch to speaker instead of holding it to my ear. That works better for me than trying to jam the phone against the amplified side.

I don’t have one but this is my main question too. Holding a phone up to an amplified ear sounds like a mess, so I’d want to know if people actually do it or just take it out. Sounds like it depends on the person from what I’m reading.

Phone calls are hit or miss for me. Sometimes it’s fine but other times the person on the other end sounds a bit muffled, so I end up pulling it out anyway. Depends on the day I guess.

Holding a phone to your ear with these in is not the disaster people make it out to be. I just use the normal earpiece and keep volume low, works fine. You will not have to take it out every time.

The earpiece thing isn’t really an issue for me. I just talk on the phone like normal and it’s fine, though I do turn the volume down a notch first. I don’t get the whole feedback problem people keep mentioning.

I use mine on speaker a lot and that works surprisingly well for me. The voice boost actually helps with the tinny phone speaker sound. Keeps my hands free too.

Phone calls are the one place these fall short for me. The voice comes through, but it sounds thin and a bit processed compared to just using my phone normally. I still take them out for anything longer than a quick call.

Phone calls are actually where mine surprised me, but not in a good way. I had a call with my sister a couple weeks back and she immediately asked what was different about my voice because apparently I was talking way louder than usual. Had no idea. I guess the earpiece was boosting her voice so much that I just naturally cranked my own volume up to match, and she got an earful. We laughed about it but it stuck with me.

So for me the problem isn’t whether the phone audio comes through. It does, and honestly pretty clear. The problem is that I stop hearing myself at a normal level and start shouting without realizing it. Never had that issue with regular earbuds or just holding the phone plain. Something about the way the device handles the call audio throws off my own sense of how loud I’m being.

Since then I’ve been pulling it out for anything longer than a quick call. Not because it doesn’t work, more because I don’t want to be that guy yelling into his phone in public without knowing it. For a two minute call to confirm an appointment or whatever, I’ll leave it in. Anything longer and it comes out.

Curious if anyone else has had people on the other end comment on their volume during calls. That part doesn’t seem to get mentioned much.