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Most phones won't have a problem maintaining pairings with two devices, but those who also use fitness trackers, smartwatches, and other Bluetooth accessories may run into issues getting the Atom to communicate with their phone.

The iRadar pairs with your phone via Bluetooth and your phone probably also connects to your car's hands-free calling system via Bluetooth as well. It will function without your phone, but without the app telling it what to do, there is decidedly less finesse to how it handles false alarms. There's no display aside from the red/blue LED. Aside from volume and mute, the Atom has no physical controls. The iRadar Atom's reliance on the smartphone app is both its biggest strength and a potential weakness. The app can overlay audio controls onto its map interface to allow quick play, pause, and skip, give rudimentary point to point directions, and give a bird's eye view of the traffic on the road. When the app disconnects from the hardware, it marks the GPS location of your parking spot to help you get back to your vehicle later.

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These alerts sound via the iRadar's speaker as you approach their GPS location just like locally detected alerts - for example, 'red light camera ahead' or 'hazardous area ahead' - keeping the driver informed without taking their eyes off of the road.Īdditionally, the iRadar app has a few functions that increase its helpfulness when on the road and when not.

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Much like how peer-reported traffic info in an app like Waze gives drivers information about jams that are miles up the road, the network of Cobra AURA reports gives drivers information about speed traps well outside of the limits of the detector's range. When a driver gets a radar alert, he or she is also able to confirm Live Police presence by tapping a large button in the app, which uploads the location of the alert to the AURA database to be shared automatically to other Cobra users. You can disable voice prompts and be alerted only with beeps.Īlso built into the app is Cobra's AURA database of peer-reported hazard warnings, speed trap alerts, camera alerts, and more. For example, if you're getting a lot of X band alerts in an area where you know the police typically use the K and Ka bands, you can simply disable all X band alerts for a more quiet ride. Screenshot by Antuan Goodwin/CNETĪrmed with the information about the type of alerts (band, frequency, strength, more) that you're getting, the app allows the driver to customize the behavior of the iRadar detector. The iRadar app serves as the display and control panel for the Atom hardware.

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When you get a false alarm, the software will remember the GPS position, radar band, and frequency, and eventually learn to ignore subsequent alerts of that type.

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That's where the Cobra iRadar app comes to the rescue.Īfter installing the app on your iOS device or Android phone and pairing the phone with the Atom via Bluetooth, the driver allows the driver to teach the detector hardware the difference between false alarms (speed-limit signs) and true threats (police clocking speed on the other side of the hill). With each alert, the iRadar would speak aloud the type of radar that it was detecting ('Ka band' or 'K band') and then beep, varying the volume and intensity based on the strength of detection, until I was out of range or tapped the Mute button.Īll of that beeping could get annoying. It would beep for pretty much everything. It beeped for grocery stores' automatic doors before I was on the same block. Early on in my testing, the detector would beep 'radar equipped' for speed limit signs up to a quarter-mile down the road. The iRadar Atom is sensitive perhaps too sensitive, but you've got some control over that.

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