Review on 📱 The Ultimate iPhone Mount: Cobra Electronics iRAD 500 iRadar Detection System (Discontinued) by Conrad Greene

I drove about 6000 miles on it in 3 months. This saved me a few times but is still very annoying due to poor application programming. The app does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to reduce false alarms and the mute button on the device needs to be pressed about every 4 seconds to keep it silent (when a signal is detected). This detector is essentially a set of Bluetooth sensors for your phone, so it's only as good as the software that comes with it. It loses much of its usefulness when not connected to an iPhone, as the only indicators on the device are the speaker and a red/blue LED to show if Bluetooth is connected. The included 12v adapter has a very stiff spring, enough to shut itself off if you hit a big bump. The only way to notice this is to see if the little LED is lit. It's pretty impractical for something this important. Here is an overview of the current iRadar app (as of 09/17/2013. I've had it for 3 months now, I haven't seen an update and I don't expect it anytime soon). coming soon): There are two main screens: a map and a dashboard. The city/highway function doesn't seem to do anything and can only be toggled via the app, which is quite difficult while driving. When a signal is detected, the application can report it to a database that other users can access. For some reason the Laser, VG2 and POP signals are not sent to the database. When something is detected, it will appear in the app with a signal type displayed and two buttons: Live Police and Not Safe. Clicking the 'Live Police' button creates an entry in the database and clicking 'Not Safe' creates a 'Low Threat Area' in the database (Note: this in no way reduces false positives). The "Not Secure" button doesn't do anything until the beep stops, and then only works for about a second after that, making it virtually useless. You can always report a live police or speed trap. All user-entered entries in the database expire after a few days, so the whole system isn't very useful unless there are a lot of people with iRadar detectors around. The database also has verified records. Cobra, although they're almost never real cops. These tend to be good places for the police to hide, even if there are no police there. Any of these inputs and any signal detected will result in a very loud beep. So yes, it's fairly effective at telling you where to be careful, but mostly because it beeps every two miles or so (for one reason or another). If you're using GPS, it knows how fast you're moving, so it would be nice if it turned off when you're not accelerating, but it doesn't. If you're stuck in traffic next to a signal, real or false, you practically have to turn it off to make it stop beeping.