[nabs-l] Are you listening to music?

[Joseph Hudson]

Hello Sophie at all, what I recommend doing, would be getting one of the icons from your hearing aid place, this can next to the hearing aids via wireless connection, and to connect to your phone, Via a Bluetooth connection. My dad has one end you have to press the button that is on the icon, this can hang around your neck and you don't have to worry about falling with your phone in your pocket or your ICOM. If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask and I will try to help my bes 
On Aug 2, 2014, at 4:01 PM, Sophie Trist via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Gerardo, I wear a hearing aid, but I don't wear headphones with my iPhone all the time. What I do is I turn the volume down reeeeeeeeeally low and hold it right to my ear. Having a phone pressed into your face is a more commonplace sight out in public than wearing earphones. I think certain hearing aids can connect to the iPhone via bluetooth, but I'm not sure how this works.
> 
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> HI listers
> The subject line says it all; it's the question I've gotten when in the
> store or wherever I'm with my family, they ask. The reason is because as
> most of you on here, I wear hearing aids due to a 70% hearing loss; I've
> got an IPhone, and always have atop my hearing aids the earbuds for the
> hands free piece, in case I get a call, I only have to press the button
> on the hands free and away I anser! I have each earbud atop each hearing
> aid if you understand what I mean because my hearing aids are those that
> go behind the ear. So my question is, do I really look Martian by always
> having these earbuds atop my hearing aids? My Mom says I do, but my Dad
> says that nowadays everyone has earbuds on all the time, thus appreciate
> any ideas. If indeed it isn't well-seen to always have earbuds on, then
> what other ideas do you guys who wear hearing aids have to offer? What
> I'm wanting is when I get a call, not waste time getting the phone out
> of my pocket, have to put the phone up to my hearing aids to hear what
> the caller id info says etc, thus I thought that maybe with the earbuds
> on the aids, would be the solution? Thanks for ideas.
> 
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