My Escort Live impressions and review

[PMoth]

I actually don't mind the app the way it displays the map. Maybe we'll get an update in due time.

[RedLineLIVE]

The only complaint so far with the App - other than not many users yet - is the map does not go in the direction of travel(as far as I know) so sometimes kind of confusing when I look down at it.

That's one of the things you can't do with the OS supplied UIMapView class on the iPhone/iOS. As a result, if you want "track up" map orientation on the iPhone anyway then the developer can't use the built-in OS supplied map API. So fixing that will basically require either that Escort license someone else's map/navigation SDK or for Apple to improve the UIMapView stuff in the OS. (I wish Apple would just ditch Google Maps and replace it with something else. Kind of stupid to rely on your competitor's service in your OS. Then again, I wish they'd do lots of things that they haven't done.)

[kappaz]

(I wish Apple would just ditch Google Maps and replace it with something else. Kind of stupid to rely on your competitor's service in your OS. Then again, I wish they'd do lots of things that they haven't done.)

All signs are pointing in that direction...

Apple acquired mind-blowing 3D mapping company C3 Technologies, looking to take iOS Maps to the next level | 9to5Mac | Apple Intelligence

[Johnny1099]

I have been using the Live Cord for a couple weeks. It has a connection issue with my 9500ix causing power interuptions. The green light stays on at the power outlet, but the detector turns on and off. The regular cord works fine and has never been an issue.

Escort has arranged an exchange.

Any one know how to make the iPhone app show KPH, verse MPH?

Thanks

[OpenRoad]

I read a flurry of posts on the Escort forum where there seems to be an issue with the software on Android. While this sort of thing is expected on a new system, I would not complain (especially since I am also a software developer). I'm looking forward to two things:
1) Hardwire kit
2) Rev 2 software

I suspect the wait will not be very long.

[EscortRadar]

I have been using the Live Cord for a couple weeks. It has a connection issue with my 9500ix causing power interuptions. The green light stays on at the power outlet, but the detector turns on and off. The regular cord works fine and has never been an issue.

Escort has arranged an exchange.

Any one know how to make the iPhone app show KPH, verse MPH?

Thanks

I'm sorry to hear that your cord was defective.

The app uses your phone's "country" setting to determing whether to show KPH or MPH.

[brookglenfarm]

I have had my Escort live smart cord for android since 1/4/12 and have driven over 1500 miles from Dallas, Tx to Oklahoma City, Ok and everywhere between.

My biggest problem is that turn by turn Navigation is not intergrated in to Escort Live. Its a pain in the ass and a safety hazard having to switch back and forth between apps.

I would also like to see on the map my heading in the upward position at all times and not north. on KA warnings I would like to see an option to mark a target as a moving target.

when you get an Ka alert and see its a cop driving on the highway that alert is automatically updated to the network but that cops not going to be in the same place in 2 seconds from now. So that alert is no good.

I have also noticed that the app drains the battery faster then it can recharge its self. So even with a full battery and pluged in to the car charger I can't run the app for more then a few hours and then the phone shuts off due to the low battery.

Also in 10 days of using the app I have used 125.8 Mb of data.<<<< I guess not much you can due about that last one.

[brookglenfarm]

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[WDG]

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Damn! I forgot to study AGAIN!

[North Alabama]

What everybody should do is contact Escort and tell them to provide the service for free! Then after everybody is hooked-up to Escort Live and it is up and running with a lot of users. Then maybe it will work to some degree, other wise, I think it is going to flop because normal folks do not have the money to spend on Escort Live!