Sidetone headset for iPhone

Greetings-
I am looking for a replacement of the Apple earbuds with mic that came with the phone. I tried a Klipsch headset, but it is a sound isolating headset that sounds great for music, but it is impossible to participate on a phone call with it, as you cannot hear yourself talking through the headset. It sounds just like putting your fingers in your ear and talking out loud. The original headset does not really have this problem because the headset was not really sound isolating, the earbuds do not block all the noise around you from entering your ear. I am interested in a third party headset as the earbuds from apple tend to hurt my ears after extended use.
I asked a genius at the store on Mich ave in Chicago and he said that the iphone does not support any sidetone (piping your voice when you talk through the headset back to you so you can hear yourself talk). My question is does anyone have / use a headset that has some sort of device inline that pumps your voice back through the headset (or any other suggestions about a good headset I can use with the phone that does not create a super awkward experience when trying to use the phone as a phone)?

I was hoping that some aftermarket product may be available that is an in-line device that will loop back the spoken sound from the mic back into the headset. This would not require the phone to support sidetone (no idea why Apple would not include sidetone in the device in the first place), but would be handled by another device.
I would have thought that Apple may have desired to include features that people who use the device for business need if they want to try to dislodge blackberry at all, but I guess I am wrong. Many people spend a great deal of time on the phone with a headset each and every day.

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