cjaffray

Thinking of getting one of these and found the S3 for £149.99, is it worth getting or is the S4 much better, or can anyone else recomment an alternative, ive done a search but not found much on the S3. Any help appreciated as im moving out of town soon and dont fancy having to get the bus.

Thanks

Chris

Jamo

iTrader: (23)

i have the s4, im very impressed! cant say anymore than that, its never given a false reading to date. dead easy to update, i paid £170 inc delivery for a s4, shop about theres plenty available. i got mine of ebay.

hth

jamo

WRX Jase

I'd be interested in any more on this too.

Need to keep this in mind though....

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=384079

Jamo

iTrader: (23)

apparantly snoopers are the only ones endorsed by the police?

I guess thats becasue as soon as you hit 80 mph, it says but it only does it once (i checked right upto 140, for evaluation purposes only of course )

cjaffray

S4 has much more features but as far as just alerting you when needed is the S3 good enough, £170 is a very good price as I have not seen it for under £329.99, Its a bit of a fun gaget too but does the voice get annoying after a while, can you change it to a tone.

Jamo

iTrader: (23)

dont know not played with it, ile have a look on the instructions later

HERES ONE ON EBAY

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...735577895&rd=1

cjaffray

Cheers might have a bid on that, didnt see it when I looked?

Jamo

iTrader: (23)

e-mail him and offer some £££ thats what i did, dont forget if he does it through ebay he gets charges for selling plus he gets definate cash, theres that many bloody hoaxes on ebay nowadays.

just looking for the box at the minute.

jamo

S11EPS

AFAI This proposed ban refers only to laser jammer type equipment, not GPS camera detectors. The GPS stuff only informs you of information already in the public domain.

cjaffray

Whats it like to put up with every day, does it bick up traffic lights etc or was that the realy old snoopers, do you find that if it does go off its mostly supposed to, is it quite small and can you stick it on your window, sorry for the 20 questions, its £150 for the S3 but if I can get the S4 for a bit more with subscription (although second hand) I think its worth it.

Jamo

iTrader: (23)

its never gone of unless it was supposed to, its small enough not to be upsetting to the eye, it does what it says on the box, and lets be fair thats what you want it to do. for gatsos and truvellos it gives you 300 yards warning which is plenty.

its also got a radar detector built in, which has never gone of yet so cant report on it? but you can add a srd100? which gives you 100% protection over all current radar/gatsos out there which is nice

dont know anything about the s3 so cant comment

WRX Jase

Agreed. Jammers are already illegal as I understand it. What will be made illeagal are non GPS based systems - i.e. those that forewarn you of an active site or mobile camera up ahead by detecting the signal etc

That's as I read the Times article anyhoo.......

"A Department for Transport document outlining the proposed ban states that it will “prohibit the carriage of devices that either actively inhibit the proper function of a speed camera or detect the presence of functioning speed cameras (as opposed to dummy housings)”.

Devices that use satellite-positioning systems to give drivers early warning of a speed camera will remain legal.

Ministers believe there is no problem with drivers simply being reminded of an approaching camera, which should be highly visible anyway under rules introduced two years ago.

The ban will instead focus on devices which tell drivers whether or not a yellow speed camera housing contains a live camera.

Many housings are dummies because police forces have only a limited number of cameras that they rotate in their enforcement sites. Drivers are able to speed past many camera housings because their detectors fail to bleep or flash, indicating that the housings are empty.

Ministers also want to prevent drivers from evading detection by police officers armed with speed guns. Most forces supplement their fixed cameras with “mobile enforcement” as an extra deterrent
"

cjaffray

Surely there is no such device that will alert the driver of an onconing camera but not let him know whether there is a camera in a housing, the device will do both wont it?