Skip to content
HearingTracker
Log in

Rechargeable battery life: Phonak Paradise vs. ReSound One

This topic is closed.

16 replies2.1k viewsLast reply

Link to this topic
Edited

Interesting. The Resound ONE advertises a battery life of 30 hours and 25 streaming (they use LE Bluetooth). Phonak’s total rechargeable battery life is: 24 hours. There’s no mention of how much streaming life it has. But I imagine with regular Bluetooth, the drop is significant.

A friend of mine who works at Resound says that after 5 years, the Resound would decrease to 25 hours total battery life.

The Phonak website says the hearing aid has been tested to last five years. Not sure what that means as I assume even at five years, there’d be 19 hours of battery life (without streaming).

I wonder if this is due to Phonak using a smaller and/or less optimized battery. Or if their use of classic Bluetooth plays into this. But the figures given by Phonak do not include streaming, at least to my knowledge.

I know the Resound ONE rechargeable makes it larger than the version that uses a size 13 battery. Not sure if the Phonak rechargeable is larger than their size 13 battery version.

A comparison in size could be made with the Resound ONE and Costco Kirkland 10 (which only comes in rechargeable) as this version of Costco’s hearing aid is based on Phonak Paradise I believe).

Anyone notice a difference?

9 people in this conversation4 min readJump to latest

I haven’t compared the KS10 to the Jabra (Costco equivalent of the ReSound One, but the Philips HearLink offers 24 hours of battery life (no mention of streaming time) and is shorter and narrower than the Jabra/ReSound One.

That may be true for you, but I evaluate aids on a variety of factors. We are just adding to the overall body of experiential knowledge about the various aids on the market.

Edited

Well it sound like the op evaluated them based on battery longevity because that was what he was compairing. To me I don’t really worry about battery longevity unless a certain aid is way off. But I can understand it being more of a concern with rechargeable batteries which I don’t use. But still it’s which aid I hear best with is my top priority and a couple of hours difference one way or another for the battery has never been a deciding factor at least for me. I rarely let batteries get to the point where my aids give me a warning. Again I can see it being more of a concern with rechargeable aids. But I’ve never rejected aids based on power consumption.

My Philips 9030s (rechargeable) give me about 17 hours, including a few hours of TV streaming and relatively little telephone or music streaming. I’ve seen reader reports that the KS-10’s only provide closer to 12 hours of charge, while the Jabras seem to last longer. Of course the degree of hearing loss and the volume settings will affect the length of the charge, along with the amount of streaming. If there is a significant difference between brands this will be a major factor in what I choose to buy, even if it is secondary to the overall quality of the aids. I have had it with replacing batteries, so this is an important issue for me in evaluating rechargeable alternatives.

Battery life over quality of the aids. Interesting. I also never found changing the batteries to be a big hassle. Can pretty much do it every couple of weeks with my eyes closed. But to each his own

Edited

Develop some fine motor skill issues then come back and tell us how you feel about changing batteries.

Rechargeables also have the benefit of removing a point of failure - busted battery doors. And I’ve commented in other threads how rechargeables aren’t impacted by perspiration like zinc air batteries since rechargeables have no air holes to get clogged with sweat, which kills a zinc air until it dries out.

I think that is hear best with but I think we’re kind of nit picking at this point. Without getting carried away with this, in the 40 years I’ve been wearing aids I have broken one battery door. And it took my audiologist about 10 seconds to snap in a new one. That’s one battery door in 40 years

Not sure about the Phonaks, but most of the Resound Quattro we’ve fitted have been back several times under warranty as the batteries expire.

Now this seems to be a particular problem for people who suffer with perspiration, so maybe the batteries are easily shorted when sweat is capillaried through the casing.

I trialed the just released Phonak Audeo P90-R; Cros P-R. The battery life was just twelve hours with very little bluetooth use. I found this to be unacceptable for my use.

In reply to @foursmiths

I recently got new rechargeable Phonak Audeo Paradise aids. I use a in one ear.

The CROS meant that Bluetooth was always on. So I only got 12-13 hours on a charge. That just wasn’t acceptable to me. After 2 weeks I sent them back to get aids with replaceable batteries instead of rechargeable. I now can rely on them to hear at any time.

I really love the aids, and I’m happy I can pop in new batteries as needed. Rechargeables are just not ready for use with CROS aids.

I use the Phonak’s and find that if I use the streaming audio from the TV I get less total usage time.

What is extremely limiting is using the connected to my Samsung Note to listen to audiobooks. Doing this I cus the total useful battery time back by at least four hours.

Related discussions