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Maybe I should be single, but this is my preferred way to speak on the phone when I'm not bothering anyone, and the enviornment is relatively quiet. It frees up my hands for a better range of motion if I'm doing anything else, and it removes my common accidental hang-up when my ear or face touches the display.
If the environment becomes noisy or people are around, I of course switch back to old-school DJ-gesture phone call mode.
Why are you holding it up to your face? I use speaker too if I'm busy and my hands are full but i put it down on a table. This has no advantage, you still have to hold it
I sometimes move around in my house while talking, since I'm a nervous guy when it comes to phone calls. Having the phone at chest or waist level makes it a lot quicker to change hands or even use lower arms or elbows to hold things or open doors or whatever. It's just less constraining, even if it's marginal.
If the phone is too far from your face, they can't hear you as well. You don't have to talk as loud to be heard when on speaker phone. Besides, I have a hard time hearing when I don't use it, and I can clearly hear them when it's on and near my face. They hear me better and I hear them better; definitely an advantage.
This is literal insanity
Part of what got me started was a bad microphone on my phone, but I realized it had advantages when you're alone. Honestly, talking on the phone in public at all isn't great. Everyone can hear your side of the conversation, and while it's much better than eating pizza, people ought to avoid calls in public whenever possible. Whenever I'm around others, I keep the calls short, and when I'm alone and do take longer calls, I eat that pizza. Judge pizza eaters when you see them, but don't feel shame for doing it when alone. While you're at it, don't let people having loud, vibrant phone conversations off the hook.
You know what is hands free? Headphones.