- UNSURPASSED RANGE & SENSITIVITY – Industry Leading Performance with Advanced False Alert Filtering is THE choice for drivers who demand the highest level of protection against speeding tickets.
- GPS TECHNOLOGY – Using GPS the R3 can remember and mute common false alerts (such as retail store automatic doors) along your regularly driven routes so you never have to listen to the same false alert twice.
- RED LIGHT AND SPEED CAMERA ALERTS – Preloaded Red Light and Speed Camera locations with Free Database and Firmware updates ensures your detector will never be out of date.
- MULTI-COLOR OLED DISPLAY – is easy-to-Read and allows for more useful information to be displayed at once. This improves your overall situational awareness.
- VOICE ALERTS – Voice warnings allow for hands-free operation and provide clear communication. Voice Alerts are programable to fit your driving style so you can keep your eyes on the road with no distractions.
- ADVANCED FALSE ALERT FILTERING – the R3 has advanced K/KA Band filtering offering the Least Amount of False Alerts from Blind Spot monitoring & Collision Avoidance systems in other vehicles.
- How can we help? Uniden Customer Support web site is designed to conveniently walk you through product setup and troubleshooting, Web site: https://uniden.com/pages/support-1 . Contact customer support at email: custsupport@uniden.com or phone: 1-800-297-1023.
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Jeffrey Frye –
I was looking for something with good range and price. I had just bought a new car and didn’t want to transfer my old radar detector since it was 10 years old but still reliable. I’ve had this Uniden model for about a month and seems to work great. I’ve gotten Ka alerts from about 3/4 of a mile away. I liked about this one that didn’t require an app subscription for additional alerts. Also could be updated on the computer for any red light cameras
MJ FEARN –
You want a decent radar detector, but limited on budget. Get the R3 it is fantastic! There is also an R3 SE firmware update available. The R3 with the SE update together make this a stunning radar detector which has superb performance and very minimal false alerting. The SE update in particular removes almost all BSM false alerts from other cars. The R3 also still has manual GPS lockouts for any fixed false alert locations. GPS updates are also available for the R3 (SE) so it can also be used pretty much anywhere in the world. So even if you go on holiday, you can take the R3 with you and have it know more about the local dangers than you would otherwise be able to know.
Wolf’s-Den –
Works like a charm. Many times it has saved me from a cop hiding. Long range, I picked up a cop over 1/2 a mile. Love it and definitely worth the money
natca1 –
I have owned radar detectors for many years and this one is by far the best one I have ever used. It’s just the right sensitivity and its alert are clear and easy to control. I highly recommend this one, and ESPECIALLY for the fact that its price is reasonable .
mrog –
So I have had a Passport 9500ix for as long as I can remember and this is the first non-Escort brand radar detector that I have owned. First, the build quality. It’s good, but it doesn’t feel as sturdy and rigid as my 9500ix. It’s lighter and the detector just feels a little bit “cheaper” than my old 9500ix. Even the power cord feels a bit less well built. Time will tell how it holds up. I still have original parts for my 9500ix and it is 7 plus years old.Controls – this is a very easy and intuitive layout with a lot of similar operation concepts as the 9500ix. For example, to auto mute and GPS tag a false alert for future reference, you double tap the mute button on the detector or the power cord. This is identical to the 9500ix. Navigating the menu and making changes are pretty straight forward.Features – There are a lot of features and customization options for this detector. I would say that if you are looking for something that you just plug and go, this is not the detector – at least not with its default settings out of the box. I would look at the Escort line of detectors like the Max 360 if you want a plug and go/auto-learn type of detector. But, if you are willing to take the time to learn how to tweak the settings, this detector in the long run, is a better option in my opinion.Performance – This detector has insane sensitivity! First the good, KA performance is off the charts. I recently picked up a KA band radar over 5 miles away. Granted i was on a bridge over water, straight line, but this detector crushes the KA performance of my 9500ix. Not. Even. Close. I also find the rear detection sensitivity to be better as well on the Uniden R3. Running this detector with Waze gives me great confidence in sniffing out KA band in any environment. Same for K band and X band although the gap isn’t quite as wide vs. the 9500ix on these two bands but still better. And herein lies the weaknesses of the R3.The Bad and the Ugly. In its stock factory settings, this unit falses constantly on K band in city/mixed driving. It’s about as bad as a V1 (I have a good friend who owns one and it reminds me of a V1). You will utilize the automute/GPS function constantly to lockout annoying false alarms around town until you have driven most of your daily routes. Be prepared to constantly teach it to auto mute those annoying K band false alarms. Same goes for X band, it picks up EVERYTHING. I ended up turning off X band altogether as there are no local or state law enforcement agencies that use X band radar for traffic control where I live.I also ended up running the detector in advanced mode with K band sensitivity dialed back to 80%. I changed another setting to run it in K band Narrow mode for additional filtering of false signals. Doing this made the detector much more quiet to false alarms while still giving great detection range on K band. It is much easier to occasionally auto mute those automatic doors now than the constant double tapping that I was doing before. Most law enforcement run KA in my area. There are a few local agencies that use K, but I can attest that even with these filtered settings my R3 is still better than my 9500ix on K band.The Ugly. Blind Spot Filtering. I came into this hoping to get much better performance versus my old 9500ix. It’s better at BSF than the 9500ix, but not by much. My old 9500ix would pickup mostly GM cars and Honda made cars BSF K band signals. When it did, it would usually peg the alarm and scare the living Jesus out of me for a moment thinking that I just got popped with Instand On radar. While the R3 isn’t this extreme, it’s still a chatty Cathy on the highway. The alerts tend to be for a couple of seconds with the signal meter staying low. It’s more like a hey I got something here but not like the sky is falling that my 9500ix was prone to do. I also would say that the weakest link for BSF is that it will false everytime if you are around a Honda/Acura automobile. Uniden needs to do a better job with BSF as both Radenso and Escort seem to have solved the Honday/Acura problem with their latest firmware updates.So there it is, my real world opinion. I’ve had detectors for decades and travel extensively on the road. The R3 is the most sensitive detector that I’ve ever laid eyes on. Easily beats my 9500ix and even bested my buddy’s Valentine V1. But with that sensitivity comes a price……you must customize the settings to reign in the K band false alerts or it will constantly go off around town in mixed driving. With that said, with factory settings, it’s still not as chatty as my buddy’s V1. There are other things you could do with the R3 to more severely restrict K band sensitivity, but it’s a fine line between performance and quiet. I’d also recommend running with X band turned off if you know for sure that it isn’t used for traffic control where you live. KA is superb, wouldn’t trade it for the world. I can’t comment on Laser as I haven’t encountered a situation yet where I live. It’s kind of less important to me though because to defeat Laser and have legitimate protection, you really need a jammer.So would I recommend it? Absolutely, but knowing that you have to make changes to tame the K band chattiness of the detector. There are so many options available in terms of customizing the R3. I’m hopeful that with the next firmware release, Uniden will catch up to the other manufacturers improvement with BSF – especially with Hondas!UPDATE!!! SO I’ve had this detector for almost two years now and here are some additional thoughts. I’ve had to replace suction mounts and the power cord because as mentioned in my initial review, they aren’t as sturdy as my old Escort 9500ix. Not a deal breaker but Uniden can do better.Second, the BSM filtering has gotten better with the K-Block feature in the latest firmware. With that said it’s still not as quiet as an Escort detector but completely good enough for interstate driving. The few falses that I get are momentary and easy to figure out.The R-3 is no longer the king of long range, that would go to the R-7, Valentine 1 Gen 2, or the Escort Redline and if I had to pick one of those I’d pick the R-7. Why? Because of the price/performance and the fact that you don’t have to run additional apps on your phone to harness all of the detector’s features. You still have to train it like the R-3, but once you do that’s it. With the V1 your windshield looks like a science fair project because you have to run apps (V1 Gen2) to take advantage of all of the detector’s features. Additionally someone needs to tell Escort that the price of their new Redline is just stupid. Totally not worth it when matched up against the R-7 or V1 Gen2.But back to the R-3 because for the money it is still an insanely good deal for the price and still has crazy good range. Yes it doesn’t have the range of the new big three or arrows like them, but it will still perform like a champ when you need it to do so and is still the best single antenna detector in my opinion.
Ryan –
Just to start this off I wanted to say that this is my first radar detector so I do not have any knowledge in comparison to other brands/models.With that being said, I have had a great experience in the 18 months I’ve owned this detector.It works very well, picking up both k & ka band for up to miles away on the freeways and a very generous distance during city driving. The laser feature also works very well and is a tone that quickly gets your attention.This device is also very user friendly/simple to use. I learned all of the features within the first week and let me tell you – the mute memory feature is a life saver with the constant K band interference you are bound to run into.I always have left my detector on Highway mode (I understand this is the most sensitive mode) and I can confidently say that this detector has saved me from multiple tickets (especially the sneaky speed vans/motorcycle cops in town).Also the build quality of this thing is no joke. Not a single button has began to wear out and everything feels just as solid as it did day 1. This is with it having been in my front windshield (exposed to both OR & AZ seasons) every day of ownership.It has fit well in multiple of my vehicles and the only draws I could possibly come up with is that occasionally I have to remount the suction cup due to changes in temperature overnight as well as some passengers having called it annoying (I’m sure they’d say the same about any radar detector). With that being said, I forget it’s there most of the time and it’s simply become a part of my alertness while driving.Great product with no issues thus far. I recommend this to all friends and family.
J –
Great for highway driving
Saved me lots of time and money in the year I’ve owned it, I will be purchasing another one for my other vehicle. the device is easy to use as well and can be hard wired which is a great option
Gary connor –
Do not buy for UK. Does not work without reprogramming.
I bought this knowing full well it wouldn’t work in the UK, which it doesn’t.. Well it does, it picks up X, K & KA bands very well but we’re talking traffic lights, automatic doors etc.. And the GPS database for speed cameras and red light cameras obviously doesn’t work because it’s loaded with the USA database.You can, however, visit and register to join RDforum and receive the correct update files and UK gps database from there for a small fee.All very easy to do.Its now perfect!
Ianjr –
Picks up gatso camera from quite a distance.
Seems to work on gatso cameras. That’s the fixed camera at side of the road. And does not go off if there’s no camera in the gatso. Not had chance to test on a mobile speed camera van. I’d say watch videos on you tube.
Brandon E. –
great detector, until the speaker breaks
i bought this detector and another off ebay for a family member, this detector was having speaker issues right out of the gate so i got refunded for it, now 6 months later the one from ebay is doing the same thing, i highly recommended buying a 10 pack of replacement speakers for these things because they love to blow and stop working(can be found on ebay search up 28mm 16ohm speaker), but seriously come on uniden i expect way better out of something i paid almost 600 dollars for, i ran a cheap whisper brand detector for years before i got this one and never had an issue with the speaker, looking online this seems to be a very common issue with these detectors, fix your detector uniden, there should be a recall for these
keith owen –
dose not work in the uk and no support from the seller do not buy
dose not work in the uk and no support from the seller do not buy you can’t get any support in the uk expensive plastic do not but