DaveK

This is the one with rechargable battery (so no wires) although it also has car charger connections. Motion sensor (so will switch itself on / off automatically if you are silly enough to leave it in your car), laser detection etc. More details are no doubt available on the Road Angel site.

I bought it new in December. Think the free subscription was for 6 months so runs out in May but will confirm this later if anybody is interested.

I simply don't like it - I much prefer the Origin Blue I previously had. I've only used it about 5 times and it seems rather pointless keeping it. Excellent condition but I suspect I don't have the original packaging.

I paid over £300 in December. The cheapest I've seen them for sale now is £270 from Halfords. I want £200 - plus postage if it's too far to collect.

John Boggiano

I had been thinking about getting one, Dave, as I've specced sat-nav in the GT3 and won't need my TomTom. I liked the idea of not having wires dangling about with this.

What is it about it that makes you dislike it?

DaveK

I'm not going to tell you that or you won't want to buy it!

OK - for one thing, I think the Origin was better featured :

1) It would only alert if I was speeding - Road Angel always alerts even if I'm within the speed limit
2) Origin had a motorway setting so that it would ignore cameras on roads surrounding motorways. Road Angel doesn't.
3) Origin showed you the direction of the speed camera (i.e. whether it was on the road you're on or whether it's on a side road). Road Angel doesn't.
4) It tends to alert due to "Safety camera van" (i.e. laser detection) even though it's clearly not true. To be fair - it doesn't have all that many false alerts - but it's enough that I ignore them and having laser detection was fairly pointless.

But, er...... it's really good and it's a bargain......

John Boggiano

Ha ha.

Actually, that's weird because I had a Road Angel Compact and, unless my memory is playing er... what's the word I'm looking for, it's on the tip of my tongue, er... oh it's... sorry, what was i saying, oh yes, unless my memory is playing tricks, you could configure it to do all of that stuff.
I also had an Origin (B2) which I hated - the buttons kept rattling which was the worst thing, but it also delighted in throwing out false laser alerts, usually when I had lots of opposite lock wound on and had better things to think about than to start looking for scameras. It got so bad that Paula would spot a roundabout coming and turn the thing off until we were out the other side.
Anyway, if you really can't do all that 'filtering' with it, then i don't want it after all.

DaveK

Damn - should have lied!

John Boggiano

Yup.

madmoog

Truth pays?

DaveK

Would it help if I said it makes your car faster?

dfinnegan

Perhaps some weight comparisons between this and Origin?