i use the jawbone icon for my cellphone it has that built in noise technology, this is like my 6th bt mic and the ones that all my friends and clients prefer. I always use it, especially when i walk the dog(i talk to clients this way sometimes) and of course when you're outside gust of wind will blow through, this mic is able to cancel it all out (the other ones couldn't, various jabra, samsung, platronics). I've never tried it for skype, i did use a basic lapel mic for teamspeak/ventrillo when i was leading raids in a mmo for 7 years and being that i was the one that talked for 4 hrs straight every night (cuz i told everyone what to do and stuff), everyone found my lapel mic to work well over other "gaming" headsets with a built in mic, all i can offer.