| Steve B. 2005-07-12, 11:08 pm |
| Bill M said:
> I have a Nokia cell phone that opens into a keyboard. I have a neck loop I
> can use with my t-coils. Using the neck loop and the t-coils the sound
> quality is better than life. Loud, crystal clear. But the neck loop is a
> bother, so usually I use the loudspeaker. My wife has a Sidekick 2 (
> tmobile ) and it has a good speaker system.
>
> Some cell phones drive hearing aids nuts with computer noise. Some cell
> phones do this only part of the time. If you test one, and there is no
> problem, at another time there may be a problem.
I'll talk about Australia, where I live, but I know something similar
applies overseas as well. There are two types of mobile phone network, GSM
and CDMA, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. Mobile phone 'computer
noise' comes from GSM phones, and will be heard in analogue HA's on any
setting, but only on the telecoil setting with digital hearing aids. So you
can hold a GSM phone up to your ear if you wear digital aids but not
analogue ones, and even then, you can only use the mic. and not the t-coil.
If you have a Nokia phone that supports one of their neck-loops, you can get
the phone far enough away from your ear to use the t-coil setting.
CDMA phones have no 'computer noise' to speak of, (if I listen really close
sometimes I can hear a bit with my CDMA phone), so you can hold the phone up
to your ear with the hearing aid set to either mic. or t-coil, (and use a
neck-loop if you wish).
Most of the major phone manufacturers make both GSM and CDMA phones. In
Australia at least, I don't see any point in a HA user having a GSM phone.
I suggest you get a Nokia CDMA phone and get a neck-loop.
And get your other HA fixed.
HTH,
Steve = : ^ )
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