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Does anyone have any info on upcoming Widex releases?

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Also some features are taken straight from Signia (parent company owns both). As predicted they are slowly sharing more and more components and software features.
Their approach is a load of BS, and is useless with Signias.

In reply to @P_L

In the video, maybe there isn’t any mention, but on Widex web page there is a mention of . Sadly, as for now, it is being supported only on some Android phones. Apple is being quiet about LE Audio and support and their phones only use or Bluetooth Classic for streaming to the hearing aids.

I suspect they’re not using a great deal with the ’s as AI and noise reduction like we’re used to with Starkey, Phonak, Oticon etc really messes up the sound profile and that’s not a route widex have ever gone down.
I do know re blu tooth, that the hearing aids now act as microphones so that when you make a call on a phone, you can do it hands free. None of their HA’s have done this before but the tech support guy I spoke to earlier did confirm these ones will be able to.

Also battery life is between 18 and 20 hours now, not the 36 or so from the smartrics. I presume because the chip is hogging more power.
The form factor and shell is also not the same as the smarRICs, they’re more akin to the prior generation with different mic covers. Which means there are gonna be people who bought the SmartRICs who are going to be very very angry. I certainly would be.

Why would smartRIC owners be so angry? Just because it shows that the direction which Widex did take with the smartRIC turns out to be not that great?

I’ve had the smartRIC 440 on trial and turned it down, because the speech recognition wasn’t good enough and I was missing the button on the ’s to change programs and volume. On the other side it’s music reproduction, battery life and design are great.

I think they’d be angry because Widex launched it almost exactly a year ago as their next flagship hearing aid. AT the time, many of us wondered why they’d done that because there were so few changes in it. People who bought those hearing aids thinking they were the latest thing, Widex having not come out with much previously, are now going to find their SmartRICS have been completely outdone with this new platform. BTW the Allure have a button on them as far as I’m aware.

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I am somewhat selfishly happy that the smart and moments will be driven down in price on the used market (Ebay). I wanted to purchase a pair as a backup to the Phonak Infinio Sphere and use the pure sound program on them for music, specifically. That would be a more reliable replacement to my Evokes that are not worth sending in for repair.

In reply to @Ed14

@Ed14 said:

Just because it shows that the direction which Widex did take with the smartRIC turns out to be not that great?

Exactly as @Xonic83 says, it wasn’t even a new platform even tho they tried to say so, as least their saying the Allure has a “all new chip” but I suspect it’s just a bit more marketing hype.

In reply to @Dave_Morgan

I’m not sure what type of hearing loss you have, but one thing to consider is that with the SmartRICs, you can’t really finely adjust the Pure program. It fits some hearing loss but not others. I mention this because when I used it, I wanted to tune that Pure program up for in music use. So you might actually be better trying the Allures out to have more control.

In reply to @tenkan

Na they never said it was a new platform, in fact that’s one thing they did said. Basically if it aint broke don’t fix it. What they raved about was the new L shaped design and the longer battery. Well l shaped design people found uncomfortable and hated the lack of a button. As for the battery, I think they’re probably still using the longer battery, but its charge life has been swallowed up by this new W1 chip in the Allure.

No they didn’t use the word “platform” but “all new” bah bah, it’s was just reskined, this “new” chip will have with capability after a firmware update right? As for the battery life I think this is why it’s important for disposal battery options.

Widex Moment Sheer, PureSound program
[fig4FittingRange] Here’s the fitting range recommended for Puresound. It looks like you’re a good candidate to use it. To quote Widex, “…there may be situations where the more processed sound via Universal may useful,” so try it and see if you like it and in what situations. I’m not in the fitting range but I’m getting new Widex aids next week and am looking forward to seeing if it works for me–probably in quiet environments at best.

Widex PureSound™ and Widex ZeroDelay™ Technology | Widex Pro5

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Description of screen: there is with fitting range for PureSound candidates. Patient who want to use PureSound shoud have hearing loss no more than 40 up to 2000 Hz and then no more than ~52 for 3 kHz, 58 for 4 kHz and 70 db for 6 to 8 kHz.

Seems PureSound is not for everyone…

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In reply to @Mustafa

I spilled some water on my Evokes. My fault. They lasted 8 years without too many issues but aren’t worth putting $400 /each to send out for repair (going rate for out of warranty repair in big expensive cities in the US) when I get can a newer model on Ebay for that same price…

I didn’t. I really only had issues with the receivers (but luckily those are cheaper to replace).

Any idea as to if/when there will be a disposable battery version? Sheer, Smart Ric, and now this. There must be Moment disposable battery version users who are waiting to upgrade.

Is the 52 band tech new or just marketing?

I imagine there won’t be a disposable battery version now, that’s not the way hearing aids are going these days. Maybe they will upgrade their ’s and currently they do have disposable batteries but I doubt very much on their .

That 52 band is probably just 26 bands multiplied by 2. between 20 and 24 are quite common on most rIC ’s now.

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