Did you ever get any response to your question if anyone knows when and if IPhones will be hearing aid compatible?

Thanks

Did you ever get any response to your question about “News on M3/M4 compatibilitywith the Iphone?

Has anyone ever tried the cell phone for HI made by CLARITY? I found it online for $185 and you take it to your provider and they insert a SIM card. I hate to spend that kind of money without being able to try it first! I do have CLARITY’s amplified land line phone and it’s great (to 50db) so I can hear w/o my aids.

I purposely put the date since it’s impossible to know how old posts are otherwise. I’ve been wearing aids since I’m 42 and am 70 now … sometimes I think the old analogs were less troublesome!

Thanks all for sharing.
Ann

PowerMac G5, iBook G4, AppleTV, 80 GB video iPod, 8 GB iPhone Mac OS X (10.4.10)

When I went looking into getting a cell phone in the first place not a single staff member at many cell phone stores and even on the phone with many others knew a thing about if a phone had any sort of compatability. Mabey it would be nice not to draw all that extra attention to myself for once! Mabey in the future I can pick up a phone and put it to my ear just like thr razr I have.

First let me be clear that the old Motorola Startac design does not let you get the phone anywhere near close to your hearing aids as some of the new rated models do. So with the Startac and others with poor Mx/Tx ratings you are left with using a neckloop (or the equivalent) if you are wearing hearing aids.

That said, the old Startac in my testing has by far the strongest, clearest, highest quality audio of any new designs I have tested. (I tested almost every model now offered by Verizon using CDMA.) The price and the sophistication of the cell phones are not a very good predictor of their audio quality and loudness.

One of the best (probably the best) of the Verizon phones for both loudness, clarity and connectivity is the Samsung Gleam SCH-U700. Its a middle-priced phone with fairly good features but has great audio in the mic mode, the telecoil handheld mode and in neckloop mode. (Not wild about its keyboard.) It is rated M4 and has no T rating. Still it test very well in the telecoil mode with my Phonak Savias. The audio still falls a little short of the Startac’s but it’s RF transmission doesn’t clobber hearing aid as the Startac does when you hold it to your hearing aided ear.

The Samsung Knack SCH U-310 is a lower priced phone with an output just as strong as the Gleam’s but it’s not as uncolored or clean sounding and it’s connectivity is not rated as high as the Gleam’s. It’s advantages though are its simplicity, its low price, a good keyboard and a M4/T4 rating.

Warmest Regards leslie

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.

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.