Our only problem when testing iRadar Atom was determining what exactly was supposed to be different in performance between this model and its predecessor. During our testing across several states, we received expected alerts-generally soon before seeing police cars on the sides of the road-and found the settings impressively easy to toggle wirelessly directly from the iPhone. Alerts take the form of a large on-screen letter or letters with your current speed and a signal strength indicator hinting at distance from the radar source, and you’re given the option to hit a button to manually confirm a police sighting, helping the iRadar-using community. Called the “AURA database,” the map also incorporates user-submitted reports of photo enforcement, going beyond radar and laser details.Ĭity and highway filters can be turned on for each of the radar bands to reduce false positives, and the app can serve as a speedometer, compass, and car battery monitor when you’re not consulting the map or receiving an alert. Cobra leverages cellular Internet connectivity-with your permission-to automatically share your (anonymized) alerts with other iRadar users, creating a police enforcement detection map similar to the user-generated reports on Google’s recently-acquired Waze.
IRadar continues to benefit from improvements to the free app. Cobra’s app notably offers voice alerts as an alternative to tones, but the tones are jarring, and could really benefit from further options. Beyond visual signals, the unit beeps and speaks to let you know that it’s on, paired with a device, and offering alerts. Cobra includes only one light, a tiny red dot on its glossy front-facing side, to indicate power. A three-position switch on Atom’s left side activates power and toggles the volume up or down, while a top-centered button can mute all audio output from a pill-shaped top speaker. No specific Bluetooth version is noted by Cobra, but supported iPhones and iPods date back to the iPhone 4 and fourth-gen iPod touch. The way iRadar Atom achieves some of its small size is by offloading almost every control and display option onto the screen of a Bluetooth-connected iOS device. Cobra says that it’s the company’s smallest radar, laser, and camera detector, which we’d believe. It goes without saying that iRadar Atom can be installed anywhere that its predecessors could go, and since it’s smaller, it could fit in tighter spaces as well. Once again, Cobra packs in various mounting tools such as a metal and suction cup windshield mount, a metal and Velcro “dual lock,” and adhesive Velcro pads to let you place it in the interior front of your car-specifically parallel to the road surface.
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