The Saphe brand of speed camera detectors are particularly compact and unobtrusive, which means you can easily position them in a convenient place. The Saphe Drive Mini Speed Camera Detector is palm-sized and provides a safe and reliable way to get real-time information on road accidents, speed cameras and obstacles that could obstruct your journey. Slightly chunkier than the Saphe One+, it’s still tiny, measuring in at 6cm x 2 x 3.5. It’s also a fraction heavier due to the extra tech inside. Unlike other speed camera detectors here, Waze also hooks into One.Network to provide roadwork updates, it displays pothole warnings, and can even allow you to access music streaming services through the app. As a big bonus, it’s also compatible with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. You can change the time before you’re alerted on the accident and congestion alerts, but the speed camera ones remain fixed.

The Saphe Drive Mini does the same thing as the Saphe One+ but adds a small portrait colour LCD screen between the two reporting buttons. The phone wasn’t doing anything else, no music streaming, wasn’t being used for maps; it was just sitting in the central armrest. You can use the Saphe Link app to give you either on-screen alerts to upcoming cameras or show you a map of your location as you drive. I’ve never used either, as the whole point in the Drive Mini is to do without needing to use your phone – well, for me it is anyway. If you spot a speed camera, press the blue button on the right, with a camera icon. Simply, this warns others behind you that they should probably slow down.The device switches on automatically when it senses motion, so usually, getting into your car is enough to wake it up, or closing your door will do it. Are you also tired of speeding fines? Most of us have probably received a speeding fine at some point in our lives. A brief moment of inattention and flash – a speeding fine arrives in your mailbox. You could have spent that money on something better. If you break the speed limit at very high speed, you may also face a suspension of your license. In this article, we give you three tips to avoid speeding fines. Instead of having to whip out your smartphone to log the encounter with that errant speed camera you use the Saphe Drive Mini. This then pings out an alert to other Saphe users and slowly but surely that rouge speed camera is ‘Saphe-ed’ out of existence thanks to the digitally enabled Saphe community. It can’t be helped as your phone is the one doing the monitoring of your location and sending the alerts through to the Saphe One+.

I never used the Saphe Link app to give me on-screen phone alerts, so I can’t vouch for how well it works. In terms of alerts on the One+, you get a flashing LED of different colours; blue is speed cameras, red is for an accident or danger ahead, while yellow flashes if there’s congestion or an accident. If you spot an accident, press the red button on the left, with a picture of a warning triangle. This lets others know that there could be a nasty pile-up or a lengthy jam waiting to happen. Thus, they’re now aware that they should probably reroute their journeys elsewhere. The short version, if you want it for established fixed cameras get it. However if you want it for mobile cameras and very new installations Saphe just do not have the critical mass of users in the UK and the chances of notification are slim to non, therefore Waze is the better choice.

If you have the resources to buy a brand new car, you can be sure it will be equipped with the latest infotainment features such as voice command, gesture control, etc. And your brand new car will also have built-in Sat Nav that will notify you of the correct speeding zones and even speed camera detection. However, an OEM speed camera detector is most often an optional extra reserved for top-spec models. Usually at an exorbitant extra cost of course. Suffice to say, if you want built-in speed camera detection in your brand new car, it will always be an eye-watering expensive optional extra. Why pay all that extra money when you can buy speed camera detection technology for the fraction of the price and is also technically superior? And what if you are one of the many people who do not have the available means to buy a new car yet desire to beat those speed camera blues, thus negating the accumulation of fines and penalty points? Remember that miniature screen in the middle? Not only is it sharp, but it’s also rather bright. This is good news, seeing that we can read its prompts clearly even under direct sunlight. As you’re driving along, reports from other users will proactively appear on this display. It keeps you informed if you’re about to drive into a speed camera or an accident. It’s a speedy thing, which updates every second.