Seems Cobra is coming out with a concealed radar detector that transmits to your smart phone via Bluetooth and your phone in turn becomes the display for the detector. Brilliant idea! Worth a watch to see how it performs when it comes to market.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/20238...nd.html?tk=out

 

I will buy it and report. I go thru all kinds of traps from home to work daily

 

radar detectors are worthless now a days. To many cops using laser and there is no advance warning on that. Just my $.02. The PO put in an expensive Escort unit in mine and it hardly ever goes off. My old V1 was much better.

 

^^^ Laser Interceptor (a concealed jammer) is apparently the best to handle that side of things.

 

Quite a broad generalization, don't you think? Where I live my V1 pays for itself over and over quite frequently. Just because a lot of cops in your area may be using Laser doesn't mean that a good detector can't save you from the hundreds of thousands of radar guns still in use.

 

Not at all! I'm not trying to prove anything to anyone. I'm just saying my comments above are my $.02 from my experience. Even the jammers haven't proven to be very effective.

 

I didn't want to get the ci because I didn't think the extra $ was worth it over the ix. Well, I got two laser tickets in a day so I got the ci - haven't been hit with laser since (and that's ok!) the ci has been installed (about 2 years) so I don't know if it works.

A radar DOES save you money - maybe not the ci but the ix or V1 for sure. If a single cop has Ka on and your radar prevents you from getting a ticket it's already paid for itself.

Also, even though laser shifters/jammers are illegal in many states the penalty for that is often less than the penalty for a speeding ticket. For instance, in TX it's the same class of misdemeanor, but a speeding ticket is a moving violation (affects insurance) - therefore, it's worth having them installed because one's better off to get a laser shifter/jammer ticket than the speeding ticket you would have got had they not been installed. I recommend people look into their local laws as it might be worth it for you as well.

 

I can just see it now. the officer: "I caught you speeding and using your cell phone"

 

I really like the idea behind this

 

Looks like something I might like. I have had a V1 for 15 years.

 

Actually, making an all-encompassing statement based on the small sampling of one's own experience is exactly what a "broad generalization" is.

 

Valtentine 1 all the way! That thing has saved me many times! at least 12 - 15 boggies each way accross country twice! Not to mention all the other trips I've used it on...

 

Something new from V1.


http://www.valentine1.com/v1info/v1connection/