Origin B2 Radar Detector
Discussion
DustyC said:
I Believe you can set the warning distance up to a maximum of 2Kms
I want one of these because it:
- states the current road speed limit
- states the current road you are travelling on (eg B1234)
as well as all the other things that the road angel does.
Unforutnately, it only displays the road you are on when on 'warning mode'. I thought it would display this info all the time, which I thought would be useful to identify the road you'd just enjoyed having a hoon down... but alas, this isn't the case. Still bloody useful though.
I also like the fact that, as already mentioned, not only does it warn you of the impending 'speed measurement device' (or whatever), like the competition, it also tells you the prevailing limit. I am just praying that they've got this information correct in their central DB though!
At one spot the M56 runs parallel to another road, with a 30 mph limit and camera.
Its quite strange at first to be driving along the motorway at 70 (honest officer)and then the bloody thing says Gatso 30
The danger really is depending on it rather than looking out all the time, especially when you borrow a car or use your bike instead.
Its quite strange at first to be driving along the motorway at 70 (honest officer)and then the bloody thing says Gatso 30
The danger really is depending on it rather than looking out all the time, especially when you borrow a car or use your bike instead.
A new version of the B2 was released a couple of weeks ago (called the solo). It has the GPS receiver built into the cradle rather than a seperate unit, (the head unit is the same). I understand that both versions will continue to be available for those that want to position the GPS elsewhere and it's the same price.
Gonna place my order next week.
Gonna place my order next week.
Davel said:
At one spot the M56 runs parallel to another road, with a 30 mph limit and camera.
Its quite strange at first to be driving along the motorway at 70 (honest officer)and then the bloody thing says Gatso 30
The danger really is depending on it rather than looking out all the time, especially when you borrow a car or use your bike instead.
There is a feature on it where Origin have recongised this problem, so have a 'motorway' mode, where the unit senses your direction of travel and ignores all the fatso, etc, on roads parallel to the m'way you are on. When you leave the m'way, you disable this option so normal service is resumed. very clever an no flase alarms. (you do need to turn this feature on for it work though!)
andykent said:
A new version of the B2 was released a couple of weeks ago (called the solo). It has the GPS receiver built into the cradle rather than a seperate unit, (the head unit is the same). I understand that both versions will continue to be available for those that want to position the GPS elsewhere and it's the same price.
Gonna place my order next week.
Sounds good, any web links?
Found it
www.mncgroup.co.uk/products/radar-detectors/origin-b2/
Whats the advantage of having a built in GPS antenna?
I have 2 cars. Does this mean transfering between the two will now be easier with this model?
Im not sure which to get now!
www.mncgroup.co.uk/products/radar-detectors/origin-b2/
Whats the advantage of having a built in GPS antenna?
I have 2 cars. Does this mean transfering between the two will now be easier with this model?
Im not sure which to get now!
then again they also have this on their site too
www.mncgroup.co.uk/products/neighbourhood-prayer-watch/
WTF!!!!!
www.mncgroup.co.uk/products/neighbourhood-prayer-watch/
WTF!!!!!
Cimaguy said:
Does anyone still use these?
18 year thread bump - must be one of the oldest we've had in a while.As for the B2, i doubt it. It's been discontinued for a fair while now and the databases won't have been updated for years. I used to run one during the mid-late '00's but stopped once Origin Tech merged with another tech company who changed how they managed the database / alert updates. Plus the new company got really spammy with regular emails trying to flog new products from their affiliates, whilst rarely updating the database, and about a year later they were swallowed up by the Road Angel Group in 2012.
At that point Road Angel encouraged people to move to one of their own new products (like Pogo) if they wanted accurate / regular database updates or offered fixed yearly subscriptions for a very basic / irregular database update that was backward compatible for the B2.
From what i can find online, Road Angel itself was acquired by another tech business in 2016 at which point only Road Angel branded subscription services / database updates were available, meaning the B2 won't have been updated since before then at best.
Edited by AlexRS2782 on Monday 8th August 02:07
hamzamian said:
I used to have a B2 and was recently looking for a modern alternative. Can't really seem to find one though. Anyone have any suggestions?
Save your money.The last one I saw demonstrated before I retired allowed you to take a video of the car you believed might be speeding, you then hit the activate button, and before your expensive machine gave out any warnings your speed had been logged as well as date and time, lots of weather information and the GPS position.
Actually on checking you do already have something similar but with the added number plate recognition.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-9...
hamzamian said:
I used to have a B2 and was recently looking for a modern alternative. Can't really seem to find one though. Anyone have any suggestions?
This is fairly good. Especially for average speed zones as it lets you know what your average speed actually is. However it’s not so good with updates. Or mobile sites….https://www.halfords.com/technology/speed-camera-d...
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