Njection Mobile: iPhone Speed Trap app for you would-be Schumachers
Did you pretend to be sick to get out of school, con your friends into joining you for a day out of town, and decide to take your best friend’s father’s Ferarri 250 GT out for a joy ride? If you did, it might have been nice to have the iPhone’s new Njection Mobile app. According to the Njection site, the app will notify you of upcoming speed traps, red lights with cameras, and other speed detection devices. Here is a list of features for the app:
• Speech notification of Speed Traps giving the type of trap and distance
• Search for speed traps local to you or around the world
• The only speed trap program that displays maps with full gesture support, just like the iPhone’s built in maps program.
• Map is viewable in Landscape or Portrait
• No screen lock so you can use it along as you want
• Data can be added on each trap about when the area is monitored
• Use of a native Microsoft Virtual Earth implementation to provide one of the best mapping experiences on the iPhone
• The Active Intelligence Selection System (AISS) that alerts you to the most relevant speed trap based on your speed, direction of travel, and current time
• Submit and verify speed traps directly from the iPhone
• iPhone 3G strongly suggested for alert mode
• Njection.com does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties unlike other speed trap programs. Read the Privacy Policy.
• Many more features still in the works.
It’s so nice to see a company out there that is indirectly condoning unsafe driving and 4-wheeled tomfoolery. Still, one has to wonder, if you get caught or cited for driving like the Little Old Lady from Pasadena, can you get a refund on the app? Our guess would be no. Drive safe, peoples. And remember not to check BGR while you’re driving. That’s bad.
This application reminds me of most things I don’t like.
Whoever made this application should go piss in a light socket… Twice.
pedro, you obviously drive a ferrari
save ferris!
and this app seems like it will not work because how can the data be good?
I don’t understand how the app can possibly know where a speed trap is. Speed traps are simply police vehicles with radar guns that are mobile Read “mobile” as, can move anywhere at anytime. So, if a speed trap is at one location and is not meeting his daily quota, he decides to move to new location. How could the application possibly know this?
nice beuller reference
When I drive around my area, I know where most speed traps are located. And there are websites that are pretty accurate. It won’t get them all, but it can at least let you know where you have to be a little more careful. I like to call it “Responsible Speeding”
This would be great if it actually worked as advertised.
‘Did you pretend to be sick to get out of school, con your friends into joining you for a day out of town, and decide to take your best friend’s father’s Ferarri 250 GT out for a joy ride?’
Love it!
Users can submit and verify speed traps from their iphones. There are some speed trap locations that are used on a more consistent basis, at least here in Miami I can name a few.
There is a speed trap section of the site that syncs with the iphone. You can add and rate speed traps there.
it’s all based on the network effect.
Insert “Star Wars Theme” here.
I am starting to wonder about you BG. Everyone knows this is a copy of “Trapster” (http://www.trapster.com/) which has been available on the iphone for a while, covered in the NYT (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/trapster/?scp=1&sq=trapster&st=cse) and of course here is the kicker. Its FREE. I have used Trapster many times in the heart land of all revenue driven trapping areas namely Washington DC and the verdict is it works very well. Actually on a BB it works even better as you can run it in conjunction with your voice GPS app like Telenav so they work in tandem. Anyway I just don’t think it is right for somebody as connected as yourself to only review the “pay for play” product when there is a better proven product out there for free and since both products use “social networking” type feedback to discover, rate and rank their traps which one do you think is going to contain more data. The one you have to pay $9.00 for or the one that is FREE. I leave that answer for your readers to figure out.
@Andrew B
And of course you actually bought Njection Mobile and reviewed them side by side. Such an objective statement. Check out the article on iphoneatlas.com today for a evenhanded review.
What’s the matter Andrew? Got an app of your own that isn’t getting any exposure? That comment is so blatant in promoting that trapster app.
It can feel lonely out there blogging and not taking anyone remark or answer back even if you recognize folks are calling.) I always suppose of notices like hand clapping, even if they are poor.