Every phone call you make with just the mic near your mouth and the speaker near your ear, you are whispering into the ear of the person you are calling.
If the person who answers with the mic near their mouth and the speaker near their ear is doing the same thing. It’s like having a conversational 69 where both of you are placing your mouths next to each other’s ears.
It sounds sexual and sensual if you are talking to someone you might be interested in … but it gets a bit awkward if you imagine doing this with a random stranger you would never usually want to get close to.
Depends on the phone, but some of them, the audio is horrible through the regular speaker for calls, but better via the bigger one. Just not necessarily enough better for everyone.
Mind you, most of the people that do that are just twits, but hard of hearing people might need to use the phone that way to be able to communicate effectively, regardless of phone quality.