Comments on: iPhone and M3/M4 hearing-aid compatibility?

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:24:56 +0000

OK first off let me say that i am in the profound range 97% loss. Talking on phone with t coil or not is a bust. I uise a neck loop and it at least lets me hear words tho i cannot understand them. In addition I have paired with my iPhone a service by Hamilton Web Captel that allows me to use my iPhone in telephone and web mode at same time to have conversations where the other partys conversation is printed in text on my cell monitor screen. Using neckloop I have NO problems with reception or volume esp w the iphone cause it is the one phone that can do cell and web at same time. Give hamilton a try. You will be amazed. Also use PHONETAG.com to pay for a service that translates all of your voice mail for you and sends them to you as text. I dont even ans my phone now. I just wait for the voice mail text msg and call them back usint my Hamilton connection w my iPhone. There are solutions if you reallyl want to find them. I have and it is a great boon to my business. I am a self employed computer consultant and other management consulting This is my 30th year in business. Yes we can do this folks. Good luck to you. I praise all who persevere and accomplisy by saying I can do this!! (excuse my poor typing)

Warmest Regards leslie

By: Steve Perkins

Steve Perkins — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:47:47 +0000

I’m in the same boat, folks. BTE hearing aids, got the iPhone ‘cuz I CAN hear better on it than any others I tried, using my Tcoil setting, though I didn’t try ALL the other cell phone options.

FYI: I have Bang & Olafsen earbuds (about five years old now), with them IN and my HAs OUT and plugged into the iPhone I can hear music and incoming calls rather well EVEN in my noisy gym. But fie to the guy who tries to talk to me at that very moment.

That’s not the solution to what we need: cell rings, click something, put to ear, communicate (like the rest of the world).

I know one thing for certain, the more people sound off and speak up about this, the more action we’ll get. Strength in numbers. Power to the vocal, nada to the silent. Spread the word.

I should stop fuming and find out which desk at the FCC is receptive and/or responsible for the hearing aid compatible cell phone mandate. He/she needs to hear all this loud and clear.

I’ll let you know.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:44:49 +0000

I am hearing impaired and would love to be able to use my Iphone as a hearing assistance device. By that I mean use the mic in the iphone to pick up ambient sound and play it simultaneously into the ear buds one would use with an iphone. Does anyone know if this is possible? Please e-mail me with this information at info@wntk.com
Thanks,
Bob

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 03:26:26 +0000

My 11 year old son wears hearing aids and having trouble with cellphones. However, we have the t-coil headphones on order and waiting to see how they will work. The connection can be either 2.5mm or 3.5mm with a ear hook that sits next to the hearing aid to connect the tcoil… (no feedback because the phone isn’t near the aid). I think the cord has a built in mic, but if not, he would just have to speak in the phone. Anyway, this would work for the iphone since it has a 3.5 mm jack.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:52:11 +0000

Chiming in. Wear OTE aids. Have telecoil. Will travel. Can’t discover what the M/T ratings on iPhone are. All the gadgets we need (and expense) to just function! (Vent). So bottom line for me: any cell phone, one Bluetooth earpiece, the other ear for real world input. Sounds like a plan, but then there’s always where do I stash the HA I take out on the fly? ….. Ugh.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:49:01 +0000

As we all know, i phone isn’t compatible with our hearing aids, because it’s an apple product and They didn’t comply with FCC rules.

http://www.insanelygreatmac.com/news.php?id=7702
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1125819&tstart=135

if you really want i phone, considering getting bluetooth compatible with hearing aid, or something of that kind. I would imagine that iphone 2 will come out equipped with the feature sorely needed.

By: joanne toth

joanne toth — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:13:52 +0000

the jitterbug is the best cell phone for hearing aid users

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By: Regina Kelly

Regina Kelly — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:43:02 +0000

I have digital in the ear hearing aids and had the worst time finding a phone that was load enough and didn’t give a lot of feedback. The LG CU400 fit the bill. It’s extrememly loud which is good because I can even use it without my aids sometimes. But, I want a iPhone and like everyone else, I’m trying to find out if it is compatiable with the tcoil and how loud it is. If it isn’t loud, it’s not going to work for me. I have a very hard time hearing on the phone especially in traffic and in the store and other noisy places. Hope they have one at the store set up for me to try so I can see how loud and how much feedback it produces. That would be sweet. I’d like to have one.

By: Lorraine Wernow

Lorraine Wernow — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:11:34 +0000

I have a cochlear Implant and use the LG8300 phone thru Verizon. It has m4/t4 hearing aid/cochlear implant capability and works great. However I am interested in using email and aol.com chat also and am considering switching to a phone that has all these features. I was hoping the Iphone would be the phone to use but do not see any specifications for M4/T4 listed for it. Please advise. Lorraine

By: Scott Reynolds

Scott Reynolds — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:05:12 +0000

My wife has one analog (no telecoil) and one digital (with telecoil). She’s very happy with her RAZR V3i, which has a telecoil mode.

I’m still trying to find information on whether the iPhone has a telecoil mode. At this point I suspect the best we can expect is that it doesn’t interfere excessively, else this feature would have been more widely publicized.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:25:44 +0000

I have been wearing hearing aid’s most of my life and until a few years back struggled with this issue. My job requires that I have access to a cell phone at all times. I tried different carriers, loop sets (a devise that you put around your neck that works with the T switch, and multiple phones…but remained frusterated.

I discovered a few years back that Sprint was the way to go. I can use nearly any phone in their line up without issue. I am currently using a Razr phone with perfect clarity.

Like many of you I am a huge Apple fan and was dissapointed to find that their is an interference issue with the iPhone. If the iPhone was on the Sprint network….we would not have this problem.

By: Gregg

Gregg — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:18:57 +0000

What about captions on the videos from the iTunes video store? I would love to get an appleTV but not if I can’t watch anything captioned.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:08:53 +0000

Any news on M3/M4 compatibility with the iPhone?

By: Steve Jackson

Steve Jackson — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:34:59 +0000

I use an Artone Bluetooth neckloop which I wear under my shirt. As it has a blinking blue light, I wear it upside down to not distract people. It works well with my Nokia 6600, with the exception that the Artone frequently powers down and if I don’t call turns off. If it turns off and a call comes in, I have to answer in microphone mode as it takes too long to reconnect. The Nokia works well in M mode as long as I’m not in M/T-coil mode which of course I would be. Then I hear digital buzzing and popping.

A good high audio quality, low power consumption Bluetooth connection along with a M4 rating would be all I need. (that and a next generation bluetooth loopset.)

By: Janet Miller

Janet Miller — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:05:33 +0000

Hi, Since next year we are going to be required to use hands free phones while driving, I am wondering what is being done for people like me. I wear over the ear hearing aids in both ears, plus I wear glasses. So, you see my ears are full. I thought speaker phone, but its hard to hear if other noises are interfering. I would like to know if there is something for all of us hearing impareds will be able to use. HELP. Thanks Janet Miller

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 12 May 2007 00:13:08 +0000

He probably did mean M3/M4. These are the only two ratings a device can have for the microphone (M) mode. But you are also right that a phone can have a telecoil (T) rating for coupling. So a phone might be M3/T3 or M3/T4, for example.

By: David

David — Tue, 08 May 2007 01:18:56 +0000

Jason: Did you mean M3/T4 instead of the M3/M4 rating in the title? Hearing aids usually have a M rating for the microphone and a T rating for the telecoil.

Cheers

David

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By: Chris Ryan

Chris Ryan — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:43:01 +0000

Two Phones that work well with Hearing Aids:

Motorola MOTOKRZR K1m Fire
LG VX8300

I have tested these phones with my hearing aids. (Analog Hearing aids)

– Chris

By: John

John — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:10:20 +0000

I’ve had great luck using bluetooth earpieces - no feedback issues at all. Plus that way it doesn’t matter what phone you have.

By: Örjan Larsson

Örjan Larsson — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:47:37 +0000

Hello

Myself am having trouble with GSM phones, they sometimes can disturb my CI (cochlea implant) with an high “tice-tac” signal. The same that can disturb some TV etc, if you have your GSM phone near.

My solution to that is to use an normal wired handsfree. Put the minispeaker from the handsfree near your telecoil, and set the CI or hearing aid in Telecoil mode. Because the speaker inside the handsfree is an coil of sort, it does work in T-mode. Works great for me, and is easy to test if it might work for U 2.