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More information on mobile phones
Enquiry:Can you suggest any mobile phone brand and model for Cochlear implant users (information about the manufacturers and references)? Does anyone with a cochlear implant have any preferences for using a particular mobile phone, and why?
Reply: Lots of people would like to know the answer to that question but unfortunately there is no easy answer. The manufacturers’ have pages on their websites which give advice about mobile phones, but they do not give the names of good mobiles. If you look at the pages on Sounding Board about using a mobile phone, you will find direct links to those pages. Sounding Board pages about mobile phones.
Sounding Board also gives clear information about how you can use processors from Advanced Bionics, Cochlear and Med-el with a mobile phone.
One of the key issues you have to consider is how you are going to connect the mobile phone to the implant. One of the most successful methods is through Bluetooth . Providing your mobile phone has Bluetooth, you can use it with a Bluetooth headset with integral inductive earhook. Again there are more details of this on Sounding Board. Some people prefer to listen to the phone in the normal way. For example the Harmony has an in the ear microphone which picks up the signal from the mobile phone when held to the ear in the normal way.
You might want to look at this site from Nokia which gives information about the best Nokia phones to use with a hearing aid or telecoil. The higher the number, the better the phone for that situation.
We have had a number of enquiries about this in the past so you might want to look at previous replies and comments from other users. Here are some links:
Posted on January 15, 2010 18:06
Comments
Our son, who is 10 and has always had difficulty with using mobiles, recently spoke to my husband on my new mobile (to one ear, not hands free), and there was a huge difference - he understood everything, didn't ask him to repeat, and chatted away quite happily. Afterwards he was very excited and said that it was the best phone he had ever used, and that he wanted one when he got a mobile. He got a second implant over the summer, and has been better on the hands-free landline at home than ever before, but the phone was held to his original implant only, so I don't think having bilaterals was much of a factor, if any. He hasn't tried many phones, though, so perhaps mobiles are just better than they used to be ... Anyhow, my phone is an LG KP500 - might be worth trying one out in the shop. Relatively inexpensive (arount £70 as I remember). His implants are Cochlear Freedoms. Hope this helps, Rosie
Posted by Rosie Glen on February 1, 2010 12:08
You could have a Samsung E1120. I understand it perfectly with my cochlear implant but I have difficulty with using the landline phone.
Posted by Patrick Edwards on February 28, 2010 08:45
Having bought a Doro 410, I solved my mobile phone problem, but was unable to use the cordless phones we had at home. Trusting to the "HA Compatible" tab in an Argos catalogue, we bought a set of BT Freestyle 750. Knowing how difficult cordless phones can be, I was absolutely amazed with their performance. They are absolutely interference free with my Freedom's telecoil, the best sound I have ever had from a phone.
Posted by David Walton on April 27, 2010 21:02
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