Phone Volume - Speaker Phone Volume

Hi, just got an iphone - I like the phone, but the earpiece volume and speaker phone volume makes carrying on a simple phone conversation difficult.
I have adjusted the volume on the side AND in the setting it is slide all of the way to the right....
Am I out of volume options?
Any help would be great - thanks!!!!
Paul Engstrom

Boy, what can you say about difference of opinion?
Anyway, I must personally disagree a bit with both davistld01 and Nick Buraglio. I guess my problem with their testimony is that it's delivered like a tire iron, and I think the issue is slightly more complex...
First, I agree that I would like more headroom in the gain of both the earpiece and, much more so, the speakerphone. But the devil is in the details...
Having had both a Treo 650, and most recently a 700p (still have it), I found the speaker volume of Palm Treo's quite wanting. But Palm Treo owners have had the benefit of the extremely popular 3rd party app, "VolumeCare". This nips the problem in the bud... And there was a brief period when I upgraded to the 700p that VolumeCare hadn't been updated, and the reintroduction of standard volume was a rude awakening... iPhone I find similar, except the speaker sound is a bit more 'tinny'. But, unlike Treo whose speaker is on the device back, iPhone's is on the bottom. This helps, because you can hold it with your hand such that the sound is directed (by your hand) forward. It makes a big diff, and is not awkward IMO, but natural. This may be exhibited by the commentary about using the speakerphone on a table, which essentially accomplishes the same thing.
And on the earpiece, I find it pretty similar to most mobile phones. That is, the effective volume depends greatly (maybe a bit more than most) on how you align it with your ear canal. If off by just a bit, gain drops off significantly. And if I'm in a noisy restaurant, say, I can press a bit against my ear and get ample sound volume.
So, two final observations... First, again I would like to see more headroom in gain. Second, it seems that the available iPod speaker volume is very good IMO. So it appears that there's ample gain available. It just seems that it's too limited. This makes me think that the deficit can be corrected with an operating firmware update.

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