Origin b2

Been using Origin B2 unit for years and years. Refuse to upgrade until I really have too, it's that good. On my second unit. Original was fine but some light fingered gypsy decided to nick it. Changing subscription over to new one couldn't have been easier. Like another reviewer found out the laser attachment didn't work quick enough for me - though the cop did get me from some distance on the motorway.

I've had my Origin B2 for 7 years now and apart from a few niggles i'm very happy with it. Yes, the cradle is not the most secure and it does take a bit of time to lock onto the sats after updating but, if you want a device to inform you of the Gatsos and Truvelos then it works perfectly. I think the laser detector is a bit of a waste of time because it only alerts you once you've been caught...as i found out! I've since bought another 2 B2's, one for my wife and one for my daughter and neither has had any of the problems that some of the others have experienced. Perhaps we're just lucky!

Very poor unit failed within 2 months, unit replaced, failed again 19 months unit replaced now out of Warranty, next failure in the bin and it will be goodbye Origin, never to return to this household

Owned for 2.5 years At times slow to locate satellites but my big gripe is that within weeks of the warranty expiring the B2 started to fail. First the back light, then the speech followed by warning bleeps. It is almost as if it had a programmed shut-down. With the subscription it has been an expensive unit.

I have used all the leading camera detectors, this is just OK and not as good as the road angel and the micro pilot products, the quality of the hardware is very poor indeed, with the cradle failing very quickly (very weak pins).

It was a waste of money - where is the customer service department?

My Origin b2 speed camera detector has never picked up a mobile camera van, which was why I bought it! I was assured by the man in the shop on about 5 occasions that it would pick up mobile camera vans.

If there was good back up regarding this Origin b2 electrical connection loss

Maybe I would keep mine but they do not reply to emails and when they do they apologise cause there emails been down.

I bought 6 Origin B2 Solo units for myself and a group of work colleagues about a year ago. We had to return every single unit in the first batch within a month because of cradle connectivity faults. Of the replacement units, 4 had to go back again!! We are all still dogged with intermittent connection problems and a year on we are now starting to see software lockups and two of the units have developed problems with the control buttons. On our sample of 6 units the reliability is appalling, especially when you consider the £300 + price tag.

I'm really happy with my Origin b2 despite some niggles.

I'll get those out of the way first: the cradle connections are a bit dodgy. Cleaning helps for the power/laser/diffuser row of contacts, but the GPS antenna connector between the cradle and unit needs intermittent attention (the centre pin of the GPS connector on the unit can be re-centred with a fine needle to improve friction and reduce those.

Superbly accurate and comprehensive database. I do not reccommend hard wiring as the unit (or part of) will have to be returned or replaced at some stage. This is a remarkable unit when it is new and working properly. Sadly after a few months I needed a new comms lead then sometime after a new cradle - then after 12/15 months a new head unit. More recently a fuse blew and I replaced with only one available which was rated slightly higher. My stupid mistake - flames started to shoot out of cradle at 70mph. New cradle sent and worked for one day then another worked for an hour - which leads me to believe that my little inferno must have damaged the connector to GPS unit. Origin need to re-think connection methods and warn people not to use any other fuse than the rating supplied or add additional fused circuit to cradle to make it idiot proof for users like myself. I do not use laser detector on this unit but Valentine One after receiving three points trusting Road Angels offering - their unit much better made but grossly inaccurate database.