Radar Detector Brands and Links

Connect with other radar-detector users

RadarDetector.net is the best user-to-user help site we've found. It focuses on everything related to radar detectors and offers unvarnished (and sometimes uncensored) discussions that can be useful, but might not be for the faint of heart. The outlaw image of radar detectors is certainly alive and well here.

Red-light cameras by the numbers

More than 550 communities in the U.S. have installed speed/red-light cameras -- and the number is rising. Check out this up-to-date list from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety to find out if your community is one of them. New GPS-equipped radar detectors and other devices are designed to warn you about these cameras.

Dodge tickets with your smartphone or car GPS

Although they don't detect radar or laser, several anti-speed-trap apps are available for iPhone, Android and other smartphones. The free Cobra iRadar app warns you about speed/red-light cameras -- before they can snap your photo and mail you a ticket. It loads a database onto your phone with the GPS coordinates of "tens of thousands" of these cameras, Cobra says, and you get a warning whenever you approach one. If you like, you can pair the app with a special Cobra iRadar detector (*Est. $130).

The New York Times' Gadgetwise blogger Roy Furchgott says he runs the free Trapster app on his iPhone (it also works on other smartphones and Garmin and TomTom GPS units). Users make note of speed traps, red-light cameras, sobriety checkpoints and more, and Trapster gathers all of these GPS coordinates and turns them into alerts for other Trapster drivers.

Radar detector brands

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Beltronics

Blinder

Cobra

Escort

Laser Interceptor

Laser Veil

Valentine One

Whistler