Advantages: Gives voice alerts rather than bleeping, shuts up if you are driving below the speed limit, tells you the reported speed of the road, records and monitors your speed limit, you can record your own high risk zones Disadvantages: Database is not up to date, laser detect is questionable
...the S4r-neo or the optional Snooper S100 RLD unit for around an extra £100.
I do a fair amount of driving in my work and my personal life, and have, for some time been getting more and more paranoid over the increasing number of fixed and mobile speed cameras around. Between my house and my daughter’s boyfriends, there are no less than 5 cameras, a slight slip and that’s 15 points on your licence and an instant ban.
Now I am not manic driver by ... ...magical in convincing me the Snooper manufacturers knew what they were about, having been in the business a long-time. This was apparently the machine to go for. I returned to work to churn over my options and rushed back to the shop at 5pm to buy. For someone who thought nothing about chucking away £8K on a new car, I spent more time considering my options for a Snooper. They are not cheap and I wanted something that worked.
SO DID IT?
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sue.51 03.05.2004
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Advantages: Informative and Accurate enough to protect you most of the time Disadvantages: "most of the time" is not as good as "all of the time"
...A POSSIBLE SOLUTION
The SNOOPER S4 NEO is different from the 'traditional' RADAR/LASER Detector in that it (like 'Sat-NAV' guidance devices that give you directions) also uses 'GPS' Global Positioning Satellite technology to advise you of where a lot of the traps are. Then there is the fact that it also comes as standard with a LASER detection device built in to it. Some of the Traps it May be able to offer detection against can be listed as follows:
... ...buy an accessory device from SNOOPER that will also give you RADAR detection facilities!
# 'SPECs' Cameras - Fixed cameras on high towers that read your number plate a bit like a bar-code reader does. Look a bit like double revolving 'Gatling'-Style Machinegun muzzles. One takes your number plate down as you enter the stretch or road and another at a further known distance down the road. If it calculates that you have travelled the known distance ...
Whinger 19.09.2005 (20.09.2005)
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Advantages: Superb warnings of fixed locations Disadvantages: Vulnerable to mobile cameras without the extra S100RLD attachment
...look no further than the Snooper S4 Neo.
Before I go into the product itself I want to give some background of cameras as hopefully this will give better understanding of this product and how it compares if you’re thinking of buying.
The Camera teams use 3 main methods of detecting and measuring the speed of vehicles these being Radar, Digital and Laser. There are other monitoring techniques but beyond the scope of any detector. Below you will ... ...to see how well the Snooper works.
The unit works by using GPS, global positioning satellites, and knows exactly where you are to a matter of centimetres and direction of travel. When you buy the S4 you need to register it and download the camera locations from the snooper database, but it also gives you accident black spots, high risk zones (typical mobile locations) and even schools. There is a cost involved here, the first 6 months being free ...
rexon1 04.07.2004
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Advantages: Detects fixed camera locations and hand held laser. Disadvantages: Doesnt detect mobile cameras or hand held radar.
...with a laser gun the snooper will be able to detect "scatter" and therefore warn you before they target your car. Whatever you believe it has this extra feature. You may also set this to alert you to the presence of a school, where potentially there are children who may not know the dangers of crossing the road so it lets you slow down even if you dont know the area your driving through. It also lets users input their own locations. For example you ... ...hazard, you may press a button storing the location to warn you the next time you pass it. It is also very compact and will fit in your pocket easily when you leave the car which can be a disadvantage of some other brands. Another nice feature is that it tells you the speed you are travelling at according to satellite. I found my car speedo reads slightly under the actual speed of travel. I have found it useful when travelling on strange roads, however ...
il_cacciatore 17.10.2006 (06.01.2007)
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Advantages: It works...but Disadvantages: Little more to pay+does it work?
...faster,(ditto above)
Hence buying a SNOOPER S4,for which i paid £279 + £100 for the additional radar detector.
First up,to actually make this thing work you need to register online because it wont work otherwise(security so say) to register it costs!!!!!!
Now i paid about a hundred quid for 3yrs which includes updates for that period.So you have to be online(or do a lenghty phone session).
The downloading and updating is very simple and please ... ...its a real doddle,just plug in to your cigar lighter and go.
Does it work?
Yes,superb so far and living in Bournemouth it goes of often.
There is a pleasant ladies voice advising of upcoming speed cameras with the speed limit you should be travelling at..
There are NO false alarms as mainly it works by GPS satelites.
You can tell it to warn you at any distance you require and even to what side of the road the camera is on.
But as there are ...
dean693 29.12.2004
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