11 Nov 2008 by Chris     5 Comments    Posted under: News/Media/Sport

Mini Coyote Speed Camera Detector

The Mini Coyote Speed Camera Detector (which was written about in The Times) is now available from Amazon UK for £199.

Click on the link below to go directly to the correct page at Amazon where you can read more and where you can buy the mini speed camera detector.

COYOTE – Coyote Mini Speed Camera Detector

Please note that the information above is correct at the time of writing but price and availability do sometimes change at Amazon.

UPDATE: See important note below.

5 Comments + Add Comment

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  Tom Thorpe 19 November 2008 at 9:41 am

  You need to make clear that anyone buying a Mini coyote from Amazon will Not have any UK camera database, it will only have France and this is currently only available from Novus Systems.

  As stated on the Novus GPS Website:

  You can buy a Mini Coyote from other sites. but Please be aware that not all these sites sell the UK Edition. They may well be selling the French Edition and if you get one of these you will find the unit will not update.
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  Chris 19 November 2008 at 10:44 am

  Thanks Tom, good tip. Full details at the Novus GPS website
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  Coyote UK 22 November 2008 at 12:37 pm

  Hi,

  Just to clarify: the mini Coyote is made by Coyote Systems. Novus provides the fixed camera database and is one of the on-line retailer.
  For those who bought the French version, the http://www.coyotesystems.co.uk site now proposes to convert your French mini Coyote to a UK version:
  Chech the link for details:
  http://www.coyotesystems.co.uk/index.php?app=content&event=page&name=convert
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  Angela 2 March 2009 at 9:46 am

  I have been using one for three months in France at the time of writing. The gaget is useful and does as advertised. It finds satellites easily and I had it sitting under the cowl in front of my speedometer. In that position I had no problems with reception. HOWEVER… visibility of text is difficult. The messages are impossible to read if you are driving because the text is too small. The alert message – giving your speed and the speed limit are larger so you can make these out. But just give up if the sun is shining on the Coyote as you will see nothing. Many users do a modification and remove a dark black film covering the LCD screen but that only goes so far, as the LCD is protected by dark smoked plastic. Why on earth the designer thought that transparent black plastic would be a good idea is beyond me.

  Overall the unit functions well. As proof of concept it succeeds. But more design iterations are needed before the hardware reaches an acceptable standard. I would expect to have an OLED screen viewable in full sunlight as a matter of course.

  So given all the above I feel the cost of £200 is exhorbitant; I have a full funtioning computer (albeit a netbook) that I bought for less! And there is no-way the hardware is worth the asking price.

  I note the UK Coyote site fails to list the number of users. That is a problem because the only way this unit has advanatage over its competitors is that it provides real time mobile radar indications – and without a large userbase of active motorists that information will not reliably be signalled back to the Coyote database.

  So… nice idea, shame about the implementation.
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  GPS Fan 24 May 2010 at 11:28 am

  Thanks for clearing up the confusion on the database issue, I’m glad I read this before buying. Prices are down now too, Amazon are offering them for £150.

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