Answering calls with headphones that have no built-in mic?

From my experience...You can answer the call but the person on the other end wont hear you... I got a call while on a bike ride and listening to a podcast...answered the call and said hello hello like 5 times...they never heard me...so I unplugged the headphones and they then could hear me.

BTW....You do hear the ringer through the headphones.

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Hmmm. I've always been able to talk on the phone using regular headphones. This is 1st gen iPhone.

Hmmm. I've always been able to talk on the phone using regular headphones. This is 1st gen

With the 1.0 firmware, you can only use the Apple headset to talk on the phone with the headphone jack. (You can't, for example, use a car stereo like a speakerphone by plugging it in to the headphone jack.)

However, the 2.0 firmware apparently changes this. I just tested it, and the results were very different than the last time I received a call in the car.

Here's how I was set up:
Standard headphones (Samsung earbuds)
Hardware: 1st gen phone
Software: firmware 2.0

I called myself from another phone, and the call rang in my earphones. I answered with the slider on the phone's screen. I could hear the caller in my earphones. The caller could hear my voice picked up by the iPhone's internal mic.

This is really a cool solution for people who use their iPhones to listen to audio while driving, too, since it should essentially turn your car's stereo in to a speakerphone. I'll have to get someone to call me when I'm in the car this afternoon and try it out. 🙂