Why should this happen? Its not done this before.

I did however have it flashed last week.

thanks

You mean the speaker?, you're probably hitting it on the screen with your ear by accident

Yea happens to me too, very annoying.

well thats a bit crap if so.

Unfortunately I cant reflash it myself to see whether its picked up the issue from something else. Dont know why. Have tried repeatedly and following the instructions in wiki.

Think I am going to hold out for one of the new phones like the HTC supersonic or legend, send this back to Nokia for reinstallation and flog it. Its a poor excuse for a phone anyway but switching onto handsfreee by holding it to my ear really is the bottom line! It could be so much more but 4 months down the line its not improving.

My phone did the same thingthe first time I used it, but I couldn't turn it off... I was dialing the number and listened for a ring, got nothing so looked at the screen but then it went to speaker phone.

It almost seemed like it was a "smart" function where the phone detects it's away from the face so auto switches to speaker phone...

Problem was that I couldn't turn it off, pressing the speaker button does nothing, this has happened twice now but not recently.