I can hear people I call but when I speak, intermittently, people can't hear me

I can hear people I call, but intermittently, by which I mean sometimes or on and off they can't hear me speak. I have tested the mike by recording a voice message and there is nothing wrong with the mike. I took the first blackberry back and I could not get it to malfunction in the shop but they gave me a new one anyway.
New phone, same problem, I am talking and people say "I can't hear you" and then the sound comes back. It is impossible to hold a phone conversation. I hate this rubbish phone with all this fancy stuff BUT IT'S USELESS AS A BASIC PHONE BECAUSE I CAN'T HAVE A PHONE CONVERSATION.
Two new "phones" but same problem.
Must be a design problem with Blackberry Curve 8520 "Smartphone"... yeah, right, as smart as a brick.
And I am stuck in a 2 year contract with Orange.
Any ideas, anyone, other than a hammer?

I had the exact same problem!! People intermittently couldn't hear me on a call, but I could hear them fine! Went into Apple and explained the situation, said I had full signal, I used a case so it couldn't be a signal issue, said it wasn't my face touching the mute button, which I know people have been having problems with, I checked whilst on the call and that wasn't it...the lady on the genius bar looked at me like I was a nutter, I think she thought I was just trying to get a new phone...but I'd only had it 3 weeks....the phone was in pristine condition no scratches, no nothing! Anyway she tried to explain to me in the most patronising way that it wouldn't be a hardware problem, that it was something to do with the software?!? So then she wanted to test it and obviously the problem wouldn't happen, the phone worked fine and she said take it away, if the problem persists come back in two weeks....well I went crazy and said that this is ridiculous the principle point of this phone is for making and receiving calls and it is no use to me if it can't do that!! She agreed and still said take it home and come back when it happens! I refused and said it was ridiculous, I love Apple and they really do look after their customers but I was angry that I couldn't prove...anyway she then begrudgingly went and got a new handset, this one has been perfect so far...so best thing to do is go into the apple store and just persist and they should give in, I'd really like to know what the problem is, If it was me, a software or hardware problem...if anyone finds out!!

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