Radar Detectors

I’d been eyeing this unit for a couple of months now but did not want to pay the $130 price tag. For some reason the price dropped $50, not sure why this unit dropped in price so much…I got it for $80. Unit seems to work pretty well. I upgraded from a ESD-6700 that gave 3 years of good use b/f giving in to the Texas heat. The display is a lot easier to read in the day and the voice seems more refined (more lady like, too bad I can’t record my wife”s voice into the unit. She’s use to telling me how to drive). The weather radio feature is nice, but there is a lot of static. The casing of the unit seems much more solid that past Cobra detectors I’ve owned and it is twice as heavy as the ESD-6700. Although I’m still yet to encounter a police car I can say that after driving around Houston I don’t get any falsing. My ESD-6700 performed flawlessly for over 3 years and saved me many times. This unit seems to behave the same as that one. Other than that so far so good…

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I love this detector!

First and foremost, this detector works like a dream. It lets me know when there are police in the area, before they see me. Just as important, it doesn’t seem to give false alerts, which is pretty important to me. I find the voice alerts to be attention getting, but not annoying at all. Really a great detector.

But wait, there’s more. It also has a digital compass and a voice recorder. I’m a map-guy, so I love the compass feature. I didn’t think I would use the memo function all that often, but I am surprised how often I record a “to do” list, phone number or address. It really comes in handy.

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You never know when a cop is going to be lurking by in the woods, or behind an obstacle where you cannot see them with their radar on. All it takes is for you to be 5 mph over the speed limit and you would most likely get a near $100 ticket.

The Whistler DE1650 Radar Detector offers just as many features as the more expensive units but at the price of only $119 which is very good for such a high quality detector.

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I bought this radar detector a few months ago. I must admit that its looks had some influence on my purchase. It looks more like decoration on my dash than a radar detector. I could also tell that the display was large and easy to read in the store, and it said it detected virtually everything known to man. All of that combined with a low price made buy the LRD777 as soon as my awful Cobra detector broke.

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ESCORT markets this unit for having the following key features that set it apart from other detectors: (1) It has the ESCORT name [Big deal if it’s a poorly made device]; (2) it’s cordless [This is a good AND a bad feature about the Escort Solo. It’s good because it’s a snap to pull this bugger down when I get out of the car, but because it has such a great power consumption, I found the estimated battery life in the owner’s manual to be totally fallacious]. (3) The ESCORT SOLO has programmable features where you can set things like the DIM level, or VOLUME level, etc. and have them remain set regardless of power-on or power-off. [This feature is highly overrated. First, the method of programming features on the SOLO is counter-intuitive such that I ALWAYS had to go back to the manual to program something. Secondly, the unit allows you to set the volume by using the dual function POWER/VOLUME bottom. Well, I found this way to set the VOLUME rather awkward since many times when I was trying to set the VOLUME the unit thought I was trying to turn it off and instead of accomplishing what I wanted, the unit did what it wanted].

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This unit is hardly worth the estimated price of $330 (or the $210 retail price I paid for it). It performs much more

like a $50 detector . In highway mode the range is fair. A state trooper running high power X-band radar is picked up for a good distance, but locally the detector’s sensitivity to instant-on that hits traffic up ahead is fair to

poor. I’ve never gotten a radared speeding ticket with this unit (I was paced and ticketed once), but I find that the unit is not very durable at all. Technically, if it was durable, it would be a great detector, but it just does not last so I can’t justify recommending it to new detector buyers !

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I’ve had it for 1 year and 9 months, and it failed to operate at about 1 year and 7 months. The manufacturer agreed to fix the unit for $50.00 (which is about 25 percent of the original purchase price), and they did fix it; but just 2 months after being repaired it suffered another electronic failure. This unit was never dropped and fresh batteries were always used with it so undue carelessness can’t be blamed. If I were to spend $50 every two months to repair this unit, I would soon deplete any funds budgeted for gadgets like this. The unit also, though touted for its cordlessness, puts a heavy load on batteries, even if it’s used in full DIM mode. The gain achieved by having a

cordless unit is negligible when the workmanship of the unit is so poor. It’s more of a conversation piece that it’s cordless. I hear that other models made by ESCORT are good, but because this unit failed to be reliable for the long-term I would NEVER buy an Escort detector again. Since this one is now broken, I purchased a cheaper Radio Shack 22-1693 [which features the full radar band coverage, Laser detection and VG2 protection]; after a while I will probably review its performance as well. I hope it works better.

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