Price: $207.00
(as of Feb 04, 2025 00:54:57 UTC – Details)
B00Q72Z5PU, AMPLIFY YOUR LIFE! One of our top 5 sellers, the PockeTalker has a slim design that resembles a compact cell phone and allows users to listen to the world around them through their iPod/MP3 earphones or through their telecoil device. Amplifies the room you are in by up to 40dB. Compatible with neckloops. Purchase Includes: sound amplifier with microphone, PockeTalker HED021 Deluxe Headphones (LHSWS-HED021) & PockeTalker EAR013 Single Earbud (EAR 013) Year Supply of Batteries and a 5 year manufacturer warranty.
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Reviewer: Tye
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Provides excellent sound amplification for hearing impaired.
Review: Got this for my father-in-law who has very limited hearing from years as an explosive supervisor in mining. After years of it still works great and provides quality sound for his daily needs.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Works great for an older gentleman in an extended care facility
Review: This works great for an older gentleman in an extended care facility that was having problems withhis hearing aids. This is much more affordable, he finds it very easy to use. Someone accidently stepped on the ear buds and we havent found replacements that work quite as well. He likes it so much he has asked we order another one just in case the first one quits working.
Reviewer: lookingup
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Works quite well, head set and earpiece aren’t terribly comfy
Review: We ordered this for my husband’s stepmother who refuses to wear hearing aids. They had this exact model in the hospital and loaned it to her while she was there recently. She was thrilled with it and so excited to get her own device. However, now that she’s home and has had it awhile, she doesn’t enjoy wearing it because the earphones don’t stay put on the head and the earpiece is not comfortable. I don’t know what we can do about that. She also has trouble with the static nature of it in the earpiece. But it’s still a handy device considering how terribly hard of hearing she is. She can at least hear a conversation again. And we don’t have to shout.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Improved hearing
Review: Worked better than expected. Very light and easy to wear. Does a great job amplifying sound Happy so far
Reviewer: Addison
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great product
Review: My father is hard of hearing and wears hearing aids and now he uses these and it has been a game changer he can now hear conversations he was missing out on. I can see his confidence come back and not feeling left out and alone.
Reviewer: Seychellois
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good performance abysmal aesthetic
Review: I have moderate hearing loss related to age. The primary impacts are TV watching and conversation.I have Costco hearing aids for which I paid $2000.00. I have never been happy with them. They seem to do a better job improving my hearing of creaking floors and miscellaneous extraneous noises than helping with TV and conversation.The Pocket Talker has potential but its aesthetic is so poor that I would never take it out and about. It really needs to be given a design makeover to improve its appearance. A re-name would also be a good idea How about “iHear” or somethingI removed stars because DESIGN MATTERS. It sucks having hearing loss and it sucks even more when you have a poorly designed hearing aid.Pros:The amplification of TV audio is quite amazing when one places the microphone near the TV speakers. “Near” means within a foot or two. I am able to listen to TV at very low volume levels and still easily make out the spoken words. My Wife now complains the volume is too low for her to hear properly. Ha Ha. Last week it was way too loud for her. If one places the speaker at the unit about 8 feet away from the TV the sound quality is impacted by the natural reverb in the room and sound a bit like you are listening through a 6 foot pipe. One really needs to place the mic close to the TV for best performance.I assume the same wold be true for conversation, but any Baby Boomer with poor hearing and a shred of dignity would not be seen with this poorly designed device hanging around their neck or placed on a restaurant table. See consCons:Why on earth would they not install a stereo jack on this thing? The amplified sound would not, of course, be stereo but almost everyone has stereo buds or earphones so one is forced to buy a mono to stereo adapter in order to get inputs to both channels of your chosen listening device. The provided listening devices – mono head pads and buds are super cheap and a bit of a joke and will probably end up in the recycle bin.The mic needs to be close to the TV which means one has a cable from the amp box to the TV. In our case this crosses a floor and is quite inconvenient. A Bluetooth adapter would be preferable but would add cost – so perhaps as an option?My personal opinion is it would be a bit goofy to whip this out at a restaurant and place a wired mic in the middle of the table or to be wearing this thing on a lanyard. This might work for the 95 year old Grandma but for a 66 year old Boomer it is a huge turn off. A Bluetooth adapter might solve the goofy factor. This would allow the entire unit to be placed on the table using Bluetooth earbuds. Still a bit goofy but perhaps less so.The manufacturer needs to take a page out of Apple’s book and apply some design effort to this thing. It looks like a cheap transistor radio. It should look like a sleek black cube or some such. The form factor would be easy to redesign to give it a cool factor. There seems to be a bias among manufacturers, if your are older you could care less about design. This is a mistake IMO.Edit after about 2 months of use. I continue to be extremely pleased with the basic performance of the unit after two month of continuous use. The batteries have held up for more than 20 hours of on time so far. Impressive.HOWEVER – the design still sucks big time. The headphones and earphones are cheap junk as another reviewer mentioned. The dollars would be far better invested in design work and converting the mono jack to stereo so one could simply use existing ear phones or buds which almost everyone has these days.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: very helpful – Great product!
Review: Bought it for my 97 year old mother-in-law who has VERY poor hearing. I think the headphones helped so she didn’t get all the background noise that her hearing aids picked up but this until was easy for her to use and she could hear well enough to carry on a conversation and hear what was being said instead of just catching bits and pieces. My sister-in-law could even call on the phone or do Facetime and my mother-in-law could hear what was being said. When she passed away, we left it at the nursing home for someone else to use as well. Wish we had known about this earlier – it could have helped my dad as well. Great product.
Reviewer: Peter D.
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Works great!
Review: It works better than the hearing aids my parents have.
Reviewer: Raymond Chow
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Bought this hearing aid for my 91 year old mother. Rec’d in working condition. But after 1 week it makes white noise, cannot hear anything. My mother is very disappointed. What’s the problem?
Reviewer: Eilyn
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Good product. Amazed that the interference noise is greatly reduced and my mom is able to hear clearly. She is happy and I am glad too. Thank you
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