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Not a legal move at all. Its a technical move.

The internal speaker on our phones actually does not have a standard API for developers to access, which means every phone does it in a different way.

How many apps do you know of that use the internal speaker at all? Remember, Windows Mobile / Pocket PC was originally designed to be a PDA/Handheld Computer, and only became a phone OS later. The original specifications for hardware included a loudspeaker, but in order to make it a phone, hardware manufacturers needed to add a second internal speaker for phone calls, that worked separately from the rest of the system sound.

It can be accessed by software, however each manufacturer did it differently so there is no standard... If Skype were to support the earpiece of an HTC Touch Pro, it would not work on a Samsung Omnia, and vice versa.

There have been versions of some VOIP software written with special support for popular handsets, but in general most applications just don't even bother trying to support it at all.