While you can use it with a lot of their builds, the ones that integrate directly with it gain a lot more features. The iRadar app is an ingenious little addition to the iRAD. Range is pretty standard, if anything it is on the low end, but this is more than made up for with the app. There is no in built Bluetooth, which I feel would have been a nice touch, instead connection to the iRadar is through a cable that comes with the iRAD 900. IVT filtering is here, to see the difference between genuine signals and automatic doors and the like. On hardware bonus features there is the usuals, VG-1 mode, that detects detector detectors, automatically switching itself off when it detects it. There is also an auto mute mode that might be worth looking into. With the app, all you ned to do is press the screen, a far safer option. That issue is somewhat mitigated with the iRAD, due to the phone integration, but for most of there line you need to lean over to the windshield to use the mute button, something a smart cable would have remedied. Another oversight from Cobra as a whole is the lack of smart cable. there are a number of third party options on the market. Both work, but one works a little better. The mounting bracket is the usual sticky vacuum cups that Cobra have been using in all their builds, but it also uses a click system rather than a magnetic lock, and I prefer the magnets. I don’t think a hard knock will damage this at all. I prefer a touch of heft to my electronics, and while I know that for the most part this is a psyche trick, it is still a real comfort. ![]() So even if you have no phone this is still an option. There is more than enough there to go on, seen as in order to course correct all you have to know is if there is a signal out there. More an on/off that a complicated array of band types and strengths. The display is subtle, meshing with the body perfectly, and the information is far simpler than any other build. A simple line light on top and that’s it. The simple design is leagues ahead of anything else even Cobra have produced. Here we have a compact, but sturdy, build. Some firms make fugly builds, still using older big LED displays that puts me in the mind of a clock radio. Especially with the Cobra builds, as they are all lovely looking radar detectors. The look of the build might not be as important as the actual utility of the build, but I feel it deserves its own paragraph. Cobra iRAD Radar Detector Legality and PricingĬobra iRAD Radar Detector Design and Build Quality. ![]() Cobra iRAD Radar Detector Design and Build Quality.There is certainly a benefit to that kind of software, even today, but the advent of phone apps that integrate directly with the hardware is making the on board software be worth less and less. Good software was the king around five years back, and the sorting algorithms, and the ability to differentiate between real signals and false ones was paramount to not wanting to smash your radar detector just to get it to shut up. It makes sense, I men radar is radar no matter the decade, but it begs the question, Why are so many firms charging several hundred dollars for hardware that is so cheap to produce. Some firms have miniaturized it, but for the most part the actual hardware is the same that was sold back in the late eighties. One of the more interesting things I have learned is that the core tech has remained largely unchanged in the last several decades. ![]() I think I have gotten to test out around 30 of these radar detectors over the last few months, and had a great time doing so. It’s tiny as well, a touch bigger than the DSP 9200BT, which markets itself as a cordless multi function build. Removing the screen was a stroke of genius, it integrates with your phone, and the amazing iRadar app, giving you the info you need, in addition to all the bonuses that come with said app. Congratulations you just imagined the Cobra iRAD 900. One that looks to the future in all ways that matter, and is cheaper than pretty much every other build on the market. Imagine with me, a build that eschews standard design philosophy. And I really do think we have left the best for last. We are here now at the final Cobra build review.
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