And this is why I went with AB for my daughter. Why would I want to pay thosands of dollars out of pocket for a cosmetic upgrade? The processing stratagies haven't changed, the technology is exactly the same....why do I want them releasing things that are useless, just to get some more money.
In fact, Cochlear users are still using ACE and SPEAK, which were the very first softwares used in the 80's. They have made ZERO upgrades to the speech processing aspects, in all these years, but the N5 sure is pretty!!
That's why I went for AB. It's about technology. (Clearvoice is supposed to be coming out next year. It is still compatable with the Harmomy, so no price upgrade, just better hearing!!!)