Motorola E815 / E816 Hollywood

While recording video, making voice memos, and using the phone while on speakerphone unless I'm right in front of the phone the mic isn't picking up sound well. You can't hear people from a few feet away clearly at all if they aren't right in front of the phone during a video, and if the phone is more than 3 feet away from me for the speakerphone people can't hear me that well. Is anyone else having this problem? I've read that some people say that the mic is very good, but for me the mic is very bad.