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These are the best countermeasure apps to run on your phone.

Top 10 Questions about Radar Detectors

Radar detectors are very useful tools to help drivers avoid speeding tickets. To help explain how they work and clear up some of the most common sources of confusion, let’s go over the top 10 most frequently asked questions people have about radar detectors. Top 10 Questions about Radar Detectors 1) Do radar detectors really …

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The Ultimate Speeding Ticket Countermeasure System: The Best Radar Detector and Laser Jammer

Are you looking for the very best speeding ticket protection available today? Update July 2018: This article is now out of date and the Stinger is no longer the best choice. See my updated guide to the Best Radar Detectors. There’s a lot of great choices out there for radar detectors and laser jammers, each with …

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Selecting a Dedicated Android Phone for YaV1

If you’re looking for an Android phone for YaV1, here’s what you need to know. First off, it’s pretty straightforward. Most any modern Android phone should work just fine with the app. What’s generally recommended to do is to get an inexpensive prepaid phone and simply never activate it. Your YaV1 phone does not need …

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ThreatLink: Escort Live crossed with Waze

There’s a new radar detector app available for Escort and Beltronics detectors called ThreatLink. It’s basically a cross between Escort Live and Waze and it can now take Waze alerts and display them onto your detector just like Live would do. Awesome. 🙂 Note: The app was eventually taken down because it used the Waze …

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Valentine One: iOS vs. Android

The V1 has a bluetooth module available for both iPhone and Android users. However, you don’t get the same experience on both platforms. The Android options are significantly better for several reasons. In this video I’m going to go over what the similarities and differences are and what Android offers that iPhone users don’t get …

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Escort Max360 Review: The Best Radar Detector if you want a Fully Loaded and Easy to use Radar Detector with Arrows

So the Max360 is Escort’s latest and greatest, newest radar detector with all the bells and whistles, including arrows! It takes their previous best selling radar detector, the Max2, and gives it a second antenna pointing backwards so that it can have arrows just like the V1, and now you have an automatic, plug-and-play, ease …

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