Category: Escort

Escort Redline 360c North America & International Firmware Updates

Redline 360c

Recently Escort released updates for the Redline 360c, including both the International and North American versions. Here’s the info about the updates:

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Drive Smarter adds Apple CarPlay Support

Drive Smarter CarPlay, K band alert 3 dots

Escort’s Drive Smarter app recent received an update that adds support for Apple CarPlay. With this latest update, you can now use your vehicle’s display for not only turn-by-turn navigation, but also to display your radar detector’s radar and laser alerts, cloud alerts shared with other drivers, and red light camera & speed camera alerts. …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.vortexradar.com/2023/11/drive-smarter-adds-carplay-support/

Uniden R9: Long Range Test Results

Uniden R9 and RD Test app

Today and I went out to the red barn test course to see how the upcoming Uniden R9 fares against other custom installed (CI) detectors. I was mainly just wanting to confirm that it can perform on par with other high end detectors since even there’s a lot of important things to compare between them, obviously …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.vortexradar.com/2023/06/uniden-r9-long-range-test-results/

Escort Max 360 Mk II Introduced

Escort Max 360 Mk II

Escort has just released the successor to the original Max 360 ($499) and it’s called the Max 360 Mk II ($599). It’s essentially a Max 360c Mk II ($699), just without the WiFi, and it improves upon the original Max 360 by offering longer range, better blind spot monitoring (BSM) filtering, improved photo radar detection, …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.vortexradar.com/2023/03/escort-max-360-mkii-introduced/

Escort MaxCam 360c firmware 1.8

Escort MaxCam 360c

Escort has just released firmware 1.8 for the MaxCam 360c which fixes a power-related bug and improves the arrow behavior. Read the official release notes here. Purchase your Escort MaxCam 360c here.

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.vortexradar.com/2023/02/escort-maxcam-360c-fw-18/

Escort Max 360c MkII Announced

Escort Max 360c Mk II

Escort has just announced the second generation Escort Max 360c MkII radar detector ($699). This is essentially an upgraded Max 360c featuring some welcome improvements including longer range, fewer false alerts, and 5 GHz WiFi.

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.vortexradar.com/2022/09/escort-max-360c-mkii-announced/

Uniden R8 vs. Escort Redline 360c vs. Valentine 1 Gen2: Best High End Radar Detector of 2022?

Uniden R8, Escort Redline 360c, V1 Gen2 alerting to 34.7 ahead

What’s the best radar detector for 2022? The best three are the Uniden R8, Escort Redline 360c, & the Valentine 1 Gen2. They are the best performing radar detectors with good false alert filtering plus directional arrows to help locate the threats around you. I’m a fan of all three. These detectors also have some …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.vortexradar.com/2022/07/uniden-r8-escort-redline-360c-v1-gen2-best-radar-detector-2022/

Escort MaxCam 360c firmware 1.7

Escort MaxCam 360c

Escort has just released firmware 1.7 for the MaxCam 360c which adds some new features, fixes several bugs, and improves compatibility with the Drive Smarter app. Read the official release notes here. Purchase a MaxCam 360c here.

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.vortexradar.com/2022/06/escort-maxcam-360c-fw-17/

Uniden R8 Long Range Testing

The Uniden R8 (purchase here) improves upon the performance of the already strong Uniden R7 by adding a new dual LNA design as well as an upgraded condenser lens in front of the horn. I’ve been really curious to see how much better the R8 performs and so I headed back to my usual red …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.vortexradar.com/2022/03/uniden-r8-long-range-testing/

Escort MaxCam 360c Long Range Testing

Yesterday I went out to do some testing with the new MaxCam 360c. Escort says it performs better than the Max 360c, but not quite as good as the Redline 360c, so I was curious to test and verify. Additionally I was curious if we finally have a radar detector / dashcam combo unit that, …

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Permanent link to this article: https://www.vortexradar.com/2021/09/escort-maxcam-360c-long-range-testing/

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