Pogo Alert

 

 

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So, where do I start? I've been a loyal customer of Origin for well over 10 years and have owned a Bluei and a B2 and loved them both, the love affair is now firmly over after using the Alert + for a couple of months.

So here is my list of some of my complaints against the Pogo Alert Plus:

It takes at least 5 minutes after I switch it on and start driving for it to
acquire an adequate GPS signa (every time). Sometimes it takes 15 minutes plus depending
on where I'm driving. 99% of the time the B2 took about 10-15 seconds to
boot and acquire a lock in the same car. This point alone renders the Alert
Plus practically pointless and as someone who has made a career of testing I
can't believe it got to a production state with this fundamental defect. I
phoned up and complained about this a few weeks ago and was very surprised
to get a nonchalant response of "that's just how it is!

When you mute the unit you have to touch a tiny part of the screen, often
more than once. It's distracting and hard to find the right bit of the
screen, especially as it's so far away as the mounting options are a total
nonsense! The B2 had a real button you could find by touch. This new muting
option is a huge step back.

The mounting options are dire at best. You can't have a decent powered mount
setup and subtle, especially with the mount you get in the box. It's very
very very hard to make it stick to the windscreen and after about 2 weeks of
use it just refuses point blank to stick to my Audi's windscreen no matter
what. It total junk. Firstly I don't want a suction cup system, it looks
very naf, it doesn't stick, it doesn't work on enough of an angle to be used
in much other that a Landrover Defender with a vertical screen. I've tried
mounting it in other places without the cup and losing the laser but I still
can't find a way to make it work. I've looked at pics of the dash front
mount and that looks like cheap junk with the same flaws too, and for £100
you've got to be kidding. I could go on on the mounting system but you get
the point, it just doesn't work!

There is no external option that I can see for a GPS antenna so I have to
mount it where it can see the sky, and not really on the dash front or
anywhere lower. I want the setup to be subtle, the unit would be so much
better of it had a B2 sized colour touch screen with a couple of real
buttons below. Ditch the internal battery and make it really thin and much
more versatile to mount, like the B2. The B2 wasn't perfect but was 90% of
the way there with its mount save for the silly magnets. I assume a better
external antenna would aid acquisition so why isn't it an option?

I could go on but I'm running out of steam typing.

In all it's close, and with a few mods it could be good, but the flaws it has are fundamental flaws and make the product practially worthless, unless you need a £200+ paper weight!

Nice bit of kit, no doubt worth buying. Just remember these are best getting professionally fitted, otherwise it has to be powered from the 12v cigarette lighter and switched on & off manually!

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