Slightly odd one, relatively inexpensive large tablet with hearing aid compatibility and wireless charging?

[Werewolf]

Hi

I'm in need of a tablet, mainly for audio books but it's got to be relatively large screen for someone with poor eyesight and it's got to have compatibility with the "oticon" hearing aid app. Wireless charging would be very nice to avoid fiddling with connections.
I know Ipads have the hearing aid option by default, but they're too expensive for what is wanted and the app is available for Android, I was looking at the Kindle Fire tablets which seemed ideal, until I realised the Kindle app store doesn't seem to have this app available.

Currently it's looking like possibly a Galaxy Tab with generic wireless charge adaptor might be best, but I'm not sure and still looking

It's for a friend who is heading into hospital for probably 5 day, so they can listen to some audio books whilst inside, and potentially for future hospital visits, and use in the garden etc (he normally uses an echo show at home for audio books)

 

[w1lliam]

My mum uses the oticon app with her pixel.

I've also installed the app on a tab a7 lite.

Make a backup of the app and transfer to the kindle. Install it and it should work. I don't have a kindle on hand to test.

Hope some of this is helpful.

 

[Hawk Tuah]

Very few tablets have wireless charging.

 

[jrwagh333]

Hi

I'm in need of a tablet, mainly for audio books but it's got to be relatively large screen for someone with poor eyesight and it's got to have compatibility with the "oticon" hearing aid app. Wireless charging would be very nice to avoid fiddling with connections.
I know Ipads have the hearing aid option by default, but they're too expensive for what is wanted and the app is available for Android, I was looking at the Kindle Fire tablets which seemed ideal, until I realised the Kindle app store doesn't seem to have this app available.

Currently it's looking like possibly a Galaxy Tab with generic wireless charge adaptor might be best, but I'm not sure and still looking

It's for a friend who is heading into hospital for probably 5 day, so they can listen to some audio books whilst inside, and potentially for future hospital visits, and use in the garden etc (he normally uses an echo show at home for audio books)

If it's mainly for audio books could they not use a large mobile phone with visual impaired settings on?

My Android can really blow up all the icons and text to be seen more easily

 

[Werewolf]

Cheers for the replies

I hadn't thought of a standard android phone, I've had a word and tried it the large icons with my phone and that seems to be ok so we're going to look at a cheap mobile for him (he doesn't normally use one), which makes things easier.
What I'm thinking now is something like a cheap nokia or samsung phone with a third party wireless charging adaptor (they seem to be a fiver for a usb 3 one).

 

[jpaul]

can you get a charging dock which would reduce problems of orienting/aligning usb-c plug ?

and it's got to have compatibility with the "oticon" hearing aid app

have you checked galaxy tab can stream appropriate BT protocol to hearing aids ? since it's not a phone, hands free protocol may not be available;
you can end up , like my parent with tv, where bluetooth protocol it has is incompatible and you have to buy an additional ££ device.

 

[Werewolf]

After a fair bit of discussion and testing we've decided that he can manage potentially with some normal headphones, I basically got him to try about half a dozen different pairs* (typically it was the cheapest set I'd bought for my grand nephew to use that worked best), after he reminded me that he used to be able to manage to use an old pair for light gaming, the the need to connect to the hearing aids has dropped in priority.

What we've done is ordered a relatively cheap nokia phone, if it works directly with his hearing aids that's great, if not he'll use it with the spare headphones he found were reasonable (the other option was the manufacturers adaptor unit, but that had the "disabled use tax"** applied at £180).
I'm going to order one of the "USB C to wireless charging" adaptors and stick it on the case to give it a slow, but hopefully easy to use charging option, and may end up spending a few minutes in the shed making a stand that incorporates a charging pad, so the phone fits on snugly (so he can just drop the phone on the stand and it'll always line up).

It's turned out to be more faff than I was genuinely expecting, especially as the hearing aid manufacturer doesn't keep a list of all the phones that work directly (they've got a partial list), and he wasn't willing to pay for something like an iphone to guarantee it worked, especially given he'll only ever use it in the hospital.


*Ranging in style from a my normal ones, to some gaming ones and he used to use that had the pads rotted off now (5+ years of not being used).

**Pretty much anything for purely disabled usage tends to be far more expensive than you'd expect, given you can get a complete phone for ~£50 (and bluetooth IO adaptors for headphones for £20) what is effectively a device that bridges between two blue tooth standards should not really have an RRP of £180.

 

[jpaul]

the link I put in other hearing aid thread could still give a Android tablet option,

Stream audio over Bluetooth Hands-Free (HFP) | Bluetooth Streamer Pro

This mobile app for iOS and Android makes it possible to stream ANY audio over Bluetooth Hands-Free Protocol (HFP). Ex: car Bluetooth allows phone calls but not streaming music.

bluetoothstreamerpro.com

Does your vehicle have Bluetooth for making phone calls (hands-free), but it won’t let you stream your music and audio files??? Mine does, and I searched high and low for a solution. The best option I found was to buy an expensive piece of hardware to perform the A2DP Bluetooth profile my car stereo was missing. That hardware finally allowed me to stream the audio and feed it into the auxiliary port. That is a great option if you want to spend $100+ on the hardware, but I thought there had to be a better way… If that doesn’t sound appealing to you, there is finally an affordable option…the Bluetooth Streamer Pro app!!! This app makes the car stereo (or any device that supports Bluetooth Hands-Free Protocol, HFP) think it is on a phone call and stream the music/audio that way!!!

if my relations had a sony tv with full android maybe it would run on there - they had had tv adaptor unit for previous resound aids, but (obviously) won't work with new phonak (paradises) they have.
I had previously considered that getting a new tv with hearing aid support would be more economic than adapter, tv has had it's four score years.