By coincidence, I had an appointment with my hearing aid specialist at Costco today, and based on her previous recommendation and my own research was planning to order the Philips 9040. Yesterday I read about Philips’ announcement of the 9050, so when I saw the HAS (or should that be HIS?) this afternoon I asked her if she knew when the 9050 was likely to be available at Costco. She was completely unaware of the 9050, but said this was typical, they normally only hear about new products a few days before Costco announces they are carrying them. She also said there could be up to a month delay after Costco announces new products before they actually become available in the stores, depending how quickly the hearing aid company makes training available, prints product literature, ships the product, etc. That’s worst case, she said new products normally ship somewhat faster than that.
FWIW, we agreed that she’d hold off ordering the 9040 for a few weeks to see if the 9050 becomes available…