Its been a long time since posting. V1 versus Passport MAX ??

[CodyOebel]

Ok, Being a V1 owner and having directly purchased 3 V1's and then purchased 4 others for family members who wanted one who weren't too good with the computer I have contributed to a total of 7 V1's over half a decade or more.

I'm back to the decision to be made again. Last V1 around. I purchased at the time the new 9500ix instead of a V1. Wow what a puke\vomit lazy laggy responding peice of crap. I absolutely loved it's GPS features, and being a cisco guy I liked being able to console into the unit and customize it's settings with a computer as I love that type of thing. I really liked the ability of it's LIVE feature, but being a hobbyist c++ programmer I understand they have a ways to go before they fine tune in their live.

Now V1 has had Savvy. It's reply to GPS enabled devices is the Murphy's law sales pitch, and it's a nice counter to people who dont comprehend what Escort is trying to do. I did not like RedLine as V1 defeated in my opinion it's inconsistency of reporting IO shots. RedLine from what I have gained from researching is no longer having this issue. Then there is V1's ramp up. Absolutely perfection in this topic. What can someone say V1 has it's **** down and it works, quite well I might add.

Now ..... Max was tossed in my face the other day from a friend who always loved to bash my V1 love and pride with his RedLine unit who now owns a Passport Max with Live. We did a road trip once, and the RedLine alerted nearly 22 seconds early as V1 stayed silent, boy I never heard the end of that one and still I dont. (You remember that time the RL alrerted 22 seconds ahead of your V1) gets old lol. I had to sell my V1 fighting financial issues.

Now I want some LEO protection again, and I just miss hearing the beeps as I consider an RD as a personally hobby device not reason to break the law.

This passport max detected a KAshot from 7 miles out on hwy 16. It reminded me of old V1 days. Driving thorugh the city the live alerted perfectly from some other LIVE user here in San Antonio, and sure enough the LEO was real as it was marked on the galaxy s3 phone. I have been pretty damn impressed with this.


Also the toilet with RF transceiver used in V1's counter to gps technologies was just exagerant I would remove that. It's looking like a desperate attempt to soil escorts LIVE and I have never ONCE had a good experience with escort products except driving in my buddies car a few days ago watching this thing in action. It's a clear winner, and with software fine tuning it even better it hasn't reached it's max potential imo.

So how is V1 going to counter this? It doesn't need to lock out false alerts Savvy is in my opinion not all that great or intelligent and a bit cumbersome (Analog). V1 needs to step it up a bit. Did MV ever renew his patent on the arrows? God forbid Escort use them in these latest detectors of theirs, or else V1 will get the nail in the coffin.

I want to see something FRESH with V1. Why hell
Change the chassis to a different finish or something ... just something lol.

[Buckdarma]

I think you have the true winner till the MAX can be made to be what it was promised to be. Yes the v1 could do with a littel bit of freshening huh?

[V-1 3.872]

As i know,Mike Valentine did in fact renew his patent on the arrows.I do think also he needs to catch up a little on somethings but i believe he's always working on something new for us V-1 users as he puts all his time into one unit.

[zappy]

As i know,Mike Valentine did in fact renew his patent on the arrows.I do think also he needs to catch up a little on somethings but i believe he's always working on something new for us V-1 users as he puts all his time into one unit.

How did he "renew" his patent? That literally takes an act of Congress to extend a patent. Patents exist for a certain period of time for a reason.

[Buckdarma]

As i know,Mike Valentine did in fact renew his patent on the arrows.I do think also he needs to catch up a little on somethings but i believe he's always working on something new for us V-1 users as he puts all his time into one unit.

How did he "renew" his patent? That literally takes an act of Congress to extend a patent. Patents exist for a certain period of time for a reason.

He could only renew it if there was a significant upgrade to the original one which won't be happening because it is so basic a patent.

[PointerCone]

I want to see something FRESH with V1. Why hell
Change the chassis to a different finish or something ... just something lol.

Well, given the fact that the Connection (IOS or Droid) really allows one to customize their V1 (with Savvy too) and make is a "new rocket", I'd stick with what you know. I still like the arrows as well and for me that's a BIG PLUS!!! There's too many unknowns at this time with the Max.....

[PointerCone]

I want to see something FRESH with V1. Why hell
Change the chassis to a different finish or something ... just something lol.

Well, given the fact that the Connection (IOS or Droid) really allows one to customize their V1 (with Savvy too) and make is a "new rocket", I'd stick with what you know. I still like the arrows as well and for me that's a BIG PLUS!!! There's too many unknowns at this time with the Max.....

[CodyOebel]

Guys ... I sent back the last escort RD .. the 9500ix, and then purchased my 3rd Valentine One as stated in the first post.
I ordered MAX , configured the software for detector tools to run as administrator, with winxp sp3 mode emulation.
Updated max to 1.4, and been driving with the unit for a week. I'm going to be honest here. Being a V1 junkie for some time
it kills me to say this, but this Max thus far has me sold. I love the payment options, and delayed charging escort does as well as
how fast they shipped me the product. I'm buying a new Samsung Galaxy S4 this friday, and my EL cord comes in any day now.
So this far, I have been running purely on the detector, and it's ability to sniff out bogey's. I miss the arrows greatly that's a feature we all love with V1. However, this max has snapped some I\O KA shots around huge bends that reminded me of my first V1 experiences. It's so damn quiet that when it goes off I nearly break my neck hitting the breaks it scares the hell out of me.
I'm still within trial period. I've had some 4 mile detections that were crazy off axis with Max so far. 4 miles is the most ranged detection I've got out of it, but I haven't really hit those long highway stretches on a long road trip to really see what it can do.
Without using live, or encountering the bugs with EL. So far Max is a real winner guys. I'm getting plentiful range to slow down
and be at SPL with Max. However I am a stubborn brick headed German so I will give it more time during this trial period to see if I find anything I really dont like about Max but right now I'm all pro's and no cons. At this point I am deciding on keeping Max. Lets see if something causes that to change!

-Cody