Awful product - Avoid Like The Plague!

Update 5/12/2015 - Ive just had my FOURTH EasyTek die. This one in less than a week. No useful info from Siemens.

The 4.21.2015 update didnt help at all. Still a battery killer. 41% in a recent check.

Im on my 3rd device. Very unreliable.

The 4 loud beeps when Bluetooth connects and disconnects is really annoying especially since every time you use Siri you get 4 beeps. Siris beep. And the 4 more beeps. Their ux person must have worked on old 8-bit video games!

1) Absolutely the biggest battery killer I’ve ever seen for an iPhone app. If I lightly use it I’ll get most of the way through the day on a charge. If I use it for any period of time I’ll need to charge the iPhone 2x a day. The Usage panel shows that EasyTek uses 1/3 to 3/4 of the battery between charges.

2) Bluetooth isn’t terribly reliable. Sometime it will connect, sometimes it won’t. I find that I’m manually reconnecting 2x a day.

3) Bluetooth isn’t terribly flexible. Switching connection between phone and laptop (for a VoIP app) isn’t reliable and often requires lots of fiddling.

4) Connect and disconnect tones are pretty annoyingly implemented. Especially when you try to use it with Siri. You get the easyTek tones and the Siri tones.

5) Battery indicators are nearly useless for both the instruments and the easyTek. Week old batteries show full and then go to zero instantly. The easyTek battery indicator doesn’t have enough granularity to catch that a charge is going to be needed soon.

6) I’ve had to use the pinhole to reset the easyTek. It went from working to frozen. None of the lights lit, none of the buttons worked and it wouldn’t charge.

7) I’d expect more battery life from the device itself. I’ve had days where I’ve had to charge it mid-day.

In summary, for $5,000 hearing aids and from a company like Siemens I’d expect a much more polished product.

** iPhone 6, latest OS.

xvplx about easyTek