I think that the simplest thing to say in reply is that no one should buy an expensive set of hearing aids without going to the manufacturer’s website and very carefully investigating any statements that the manufacturer makes about compatibility and function of the HA’s with any particular brand and model of smartphone. That is the only information that one should trust. HCP’s are not always up on everything they should be (my audi got wrong what the charging lights mean on the ReSound charging case, for instance).
For example, ReSound seems to put most of its emphasis on iPhone compatibility and direct streaming. Android seems like a second banana to them. On the ReSound website, they have a list of iPhones that have been tested and their compatibility status with MFI, etc. (but then Apple goes and updates the OS!). That’s the sort of thing one should be looking for on the manufacturer’s website. User reviews and claims anywhere are ancillary to that. Hopefully someday ReSound and any other OEM’s who use ASHA will have similar checked-and-approved lists for Android phones. These companies owe it to their customers to “certify” phones when they’re charging as much as $6K to $7K for a set of HA’s, especially with all the accessories.
Anyone who makes their purchase mainly based on what they’ve read on the Hearing Tracker website (a secondary source of information that is not standing by the warranty, etc.) is going about things in a rather foolish way.
So in the future if any post of mine has not included all the apparently necessary performance disclaimers about an OS or a smartphone, etc., relative to an HA, I will just link any response back to this post…
BTW, not to be too snotty () but I myself did do the sort of research and thinking that I’m saying each and every person buying HA’s owes it to themselves to do. Back in August 2018, I read ReSound’s statement that ASHA would be in the Quattro’s and they would work with a FUTURE version of Android. So I said to myself, “Wait a minute! Google has already released Android Pie! What if they mean Android Q?! Could be!” So I bought my Quattro’s realizing, given Samsung’s long-standing policy of only offering its phone owners TWO Android updates, that it was highly likely my Galaxy Note 8 would not work with my Quattro’s but SOME phone running a future version of Android would. So anyone anticipating the future needs to allow for that sort of uncertainty. I did. GN Hearing and Google announce Android streaming partnership - #28 by jim_lewis