New Oticon hearing aids coming soon?

Yesterday my audi told me that the Oticon rep had requested a personal meeting with him next week. The audi said that that might indicate that Oticon was about to release new HAs. I checked, and the current Oticon Intents were released in February of 2024. This would seem to me to be a very short time interval between new product releases. Has anyone heard anything about new Oticons?

This is of interest to me because I am in the middle of a trial of Phonak Infinio Spheres. I trialed the Intents, and they were a slight improvement on my current Mores, but not enough to justify the out-of-pocket expense of buying them.

My audi has been unable to get trial Spheres from Phonak, so I bought them outright in December in order to take advantage of an insurance benefit in calendar year 2024, with the proviso that I could return them for a full refund within 45 days. Now I have been switched to a new insurance plan, and I was pleased to be told that I could get another insurance benefit in 2025.

The Spheres are a major improvement in speech-in-speech-noise, as I expected them to be, but they sound unnatural to me. When I put on my Oticon Mores I feel like the world sounds normal again. The best of both worlds would be the natural sound of the Oticons with the background noise reduction of the Spheres.

I am hoping that new Oticons would give me that. I’m wondering if Oticon is speeding up their product release cycle in order to keep up with Phonak’s speech-in-noise breakthrough.

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Might be an upgrade to the AI Intent platform, but there’s definitely also latitude for an upgrade to the Own and the Power aids too.

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GN is also releasing a new model soon as well, should be interesting to see what their products are offering this year.

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My money would be on one of these over a newer ric product. But I also don’t bet for reasons…

WH

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I guess it will be Intent with different forms - custom and miniBTE

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Yes I think so! And maybe some new accessories! Easy LE Adapter?

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Was there any good news?

No, they are so lazy.

tenkan… where did you hear that GN was releasing a new HA??

GN are due for a release, those Nexia are old hats with nothing to offer much over the Omnia they replaced, but it was a LinkedIn post.

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ok thx for reply… I’m actually trying out the nexia’s now but told audi I didn’t think I’d buy them because they’ve been out a long time… wish there was more info on possible new ones coming out

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False alarm. My Audi had the meeting with the Oticon rep and the rep said there was no new Oticon product scheduled to be released anytime soon.

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Of course, they are soooo lazy…

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But Phonak can do it Phonak Adds New Custom Hearing Aids to Infinio Portfolio | The Hearing Review

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No sign of updating the Xceed?

Shame on you Oticon!

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Oticon are asking for attendees for an online conference, so yes it’s a smallish upgrade to the Own and downstream RIC products.

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