About Phonak
“We believe in changing lives and creating a world where life is on for everyone”.
Phonak has been developing hearing aids for over 70 years and is always at the forefront of research and developing innovative technology. They are recognized as a market leader and while their office is based in Switzerland, they are represented in over 100 countries.
Phonak are passionate about creating hearing solutions that change people’s lives so they can thrive socially and emotionally. They continuously strive to challenge the limits of technology to help overcome difficult hearing situations.
Technology and hearing aids
Phonak technology such as AutoSense OS and direct Bluetooth connectivity has allowed people to re-connect to the world to a new level. The latest chip technology offers twice the processing power while reducing battery consumption up to 30%.
Phonak’s latest hearing aid is everything combined into one marvellous piece of technology- The Marvel Platform.
The Marvel range is Phonak’s latest Platform in the Receiver in the canal style of hearing aids. The Marvel focuses on what you expect from a first-class hearing aid; a clear and rich sound experience. Combined with modern technology, it is a multifunctional hearing aid that conveys love at first sound.
Marvel pushes the boundaries of hearing technology to create a solution that delivers excellent sound quality. It offers better speech intelligibility in background noise. This reduces listening effort in noise. It’s easy to use and features all the latest Phonak technology.
Marvel streams all audio content seamlessly from iPhone, Android smartphone and countless Bluetooth enabled devices to both ears in stereo quality. Marvel hearing aids are rechargeable. It empowers all hearing aid users to benefit from real-time voice-to-text transcription of phone calls and remote support via smart apps.
What makes Marvel even more marvellous?
AutoSense OS 3.0
The newest generation of the proprietary Phonak technology recognizes and automatically adapts to precisely match more listening situations than ever before¹. It provides you with:
- Top rated streamed sound quality2
- Recognizes and automatically adapts to precisely match more listening situations than even before¹
- World’s first hearing aid that classifies streamed signals
Bluetooth connectivity to smartphones (iOS and Android) or other Bluetooth® enabled devices.
Connectivity and Phonak remote app
Marvel connects directly to smartphones, TVs and a variety of everyday electronics acting as wireless earphones improving clarity of speech with these devices.
Unlike any other hearing aid available, Marvel can connect directly to either your iOS or Android smartphone or other Bluetooth® enabled devices to stream any kind of audio. It enables true hands-free phone calls and even audible phone notifications can be set to hear through the hearing aids. Marvel delivers stereo sound quality streaming for music, videos, e-books, podcasts and more.
The my Phonak remote app allows your smartphone to adjust the settings on your hearing aids such as the volume and background noise adjustments.
Connectivity and Phonak remote app
A rechargeable option with a lithium ion battery is available; so no need to worry about changing batteries. Enjoy a full days of hearing on 2 hours of charge.
Roger Direct
The break-through technology in Marvel hearing aids feature RogerDirect™. This allows the Roger microphones to stream directly to Marvel hearing aids without having to attach an external receiver. With this unique innovation, you can fully participate in conversations even in very noisy environments such as restaurants, meetings at work and school activities.
The Marvel has been named a CES 2019 Innovation Award Honoree in the Accessibility category. The breakthrough Marvel technology with its universal Bluetooth® connectivity is the world’s first to fully support binaural direct streaming from Android™, iPhone® and billions of other devices. The CES Innovation Awards, is the world’s leading consumer technology awards program.
The Marvel comes in 4 technology levels discussed below:
AutoSense OSTM 3.0: is Phonak’s latest version of automatic programme selection. Hearing aids constantly analyse the environment and automatically adapt. It sets the hearing aid to the most suitable programme to give you maximum speech intelligibility in each situation. All this at speeds that are unnoticeable to the user. This latest version is included in the Marvel platform. The premium hearing aids has the greatest number of programmes the hearing aid can adapt to.
The Virto Belong are Phonaks latest custom range of hearing aids that fit in the ear. They vary in size depending on the needs of the wearer.
Phonak Virto B are the world’s first hearing aids with Biometric Calibration and are precisely calibrated to each individual ear anatomy for better hearing performance.
The Virto B uses the AutoSense OS™ operating system. It automatically senses the environment and adapts its amplification of speech and background noise reduction in real time to give a seamless listening experience from one environment to another.
They come in range of 4 technology levels below
Virto B-Titanium is the smallest Phonak custom hearing aid. It is made from medical grade titanium. It is super discreet, durable and light weight. They are essentially invisible and come in 2 technology levels.
There are other Phonak hearing aids available such as the Phonak Naida B and Bolero Marvel B. The Phonak Naida B is a super power hearing that is suitable for people with severe hearing loss. The Phonak Bolero Marvel is a behind the ear style of hearing aid. Please contact us if you would like more information about these hearing aids.