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Anyone on here seen this twitter post from Phonak

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Darn good thing.
My rechargeable batteries save on garbage. But they are barely good enough on light days for the hours I use my . Other days? forgetaboutit.

The link indicates it’s a possible expansion to the lumity range again. So doubt they will release of a new range from phonak until maybe later in the year

In reply to @raylock1

I wouldn’t expect a new one until 2025. They still haven’t brought out their custom (rechageable?).

It’s going to be a 312 .
Can’t wait for the SP . :+1:

Interesting! Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but it looks like the silhouettes are slightly smaller than the current devices. If disposable batteries take up less space than the rechargeable components, that makes sense. In that case, it would make sense that only the Slim and Life (if that’s the larger brown Audeo) were excluded, because those are the ones where it seems impractical. But if the large all the way on the left is the Naida UP, isn’t that one already battery-only? The first two BTE silhouettes look smaller than that one, but larger than the the standard Sky/Naida (which then has its own smaller silhouette).

Looks like audiologists were notified last week that a replaceable battery version is coming to the Lumity. That is great news to me! I was worried they were going to leave that stuff out of future models like many of the mobile devices these days. Better late than never! I’m not sure if I’ll upgrade to the new Lumity now or keep waiting in hopes that the next chip will have LE audio.

In reply to @DeafAntifa

I agree! One of my TWO pairs of Phonak Lumity Life rechargeables is already starting to slide down the scale in battery life. I charge it up faithfully every night - even wiggle the “bean” to make sure it’s seated proper in the induction charging base.

But now I’m starting to get low battery beeps after about 10 hours of use, and yesterday, I had to have my husband pause our TV show while I swapped in the OTHER pair of rechargeable Life aids. I’d only been wearing the near-dead pair for 12 or so hours? NOT ACCEPTABLE.

For the millionth time, I just want a viable choice! Not everyone who wears rechargeables (our only choice for most new aids coming out) has dexterity issues. Many of us actually have LONG days of 16 or more hours, and we like to travel, so we may need up to 24 hours of reliable battery in our aids. It can’t be done with rechargeables! And even if it was a full day’s worth, I’d get SIX times that with size 13 batteries in my Phonak Marvel aids.

I pine away for a battery Lumity Life … anyone out there at Phonak reading this or listening to us?

I thought of you and a few others on here when I read this. It makes no difference for me, but I’m glad you guys will (hopefully) soon be getting something that makes your lives so much easier!

Thank you SO much for your empathy CombatWombat! I wish we’d get this kind of reaching out and connection from Phonak, but … it is what it is … until the day they start losing business to other makers who offer state-of-the-art hearing aids that run on little ol’ batteries. :slight_smile:

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