Sonic Innovations Reports Strong 2008 Sales Growth

Sonic Innovations announced strong sales growth for its fiscal year while acknowledging the recession’s impact on the industry with a sharp drop-off in fourth-quarter sales.

NXP Semiconductor to Deliver Low-Power Wireless Chips for Phonak Bluetooth Hearing-Aid Platform

NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, said it will develop a single-chip, ultra-low-power radio for use in hearing systems developed in collaboration with Phonak.

Phonak Audeo YES Hearing Aids Provide Wireless Connection to MP3 and Bluetooth Devices

Phonak has long touted its Audeo hearing aids as having cool designs for cool, young, and hip users. But the features it’s recently added go beyond style by delivering wireless connectivity that younger, plugged-in consumers demand.

America Hears Expands, Upgrades its Unique ‘Clicks-and-Mortar’ Hearing-Aid Business

Many people know that America Hears, Inc., is the only company to design, develop, manufacture and market a full line of premium digital hearing aids directly to consumers over the Internet–including even the programming kit they need to adjust their hearing aids themselves. Less well known is that the company has its own complementary retail sales operation in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Oticon Offers Bluetooth Connectivity to Broader Market with Epoq V Product Line Expansion

Oticon has expanded its Epoq hearing-aid product line with Epoq V, delivering Bluetooth connectivity and other benefits to a broader market by offering a wider range of price and performance levels for the year-old product family. Epoq V that boasts the same wireless connectivity found in premium Epoq XW and mid-priced Epoq W.

Siemens Vibe Hearing Aid Fits in Crest of Ear

Hearing-aid users who do not like putting the entire instrument within their ear canal and who don’t like to put them behind the ear either now have another option. They can put them in the crest of their outer ear. Siemens Hearing Instruments’ new Vibe hearing aid sits within the ear but outside the ear canal, with a tiny tube extending into the ear canal to deliver the sound.

Sonic Innovations Lauds Vertical Integration Strategy

Hearing-aid company sticks to knitting, goes back to basics. For a transcript of the recent conference call with securities analysts, click here

Oticon Gets It ‘Rite’ With The Next Wave Of High-Function, High-Fashion Behind-The-Ear Hearing-Aids

Oticon will show its new Delta “Receiver-in-the-Ear” hearing aids featuring the RITE architecture at the American Academy of Audiology annual conference in Minneapolis this week. Like the thin-tube designs, the new RITE aids are comfortable and practically invisible, but by placing the speaker deep within the ear next to the eardrum, they also have the acoustical advantage completely-in-the-canal (CIC) aids.