Is that cheating?

In LA, where our bread and butter is talking on the phone in our cars* we are awestruck withe the new California law that you have to use a hands free device. It sounds simple enough, but we are just freaked out.

I can't hear people because we are both on speaker.

But one thing I noticed - people too cheap or lazy or whatever to buy a hands free device.

This might be a shocker...holding a phone near your face and using speaker is still illegal. "Hands free" means no hands, sans hands. The problem isn't that you put the phone to your head, it's that you hold it. So holding a phone just under your mouth is also not good.
*unlike on Pepperidge Farm, where bread is there bread and butter.