Trapster = Battery Drain

So I had an opportunity to download try out free app Trapster. This little app provides real time notifications about "reported" speed traps, red light cameras and known police hangouts along the roads. It is updated by users and so your mileage may vary. While the app appeared to work okay it is one heck of a battery drainer. My iPhone was fully charged and within an hour it had drained my battery. So word to the wise, make sure you have it connected to power in your vehicle before leaving this thing running. It does a pretty good job but you will want to change the notification interval to 15 secs most likely. The default is 5 secs. I was in an area that had three known spots where police hang out (close together and within the half mile radius setting I choose) and the voice was constantly telling me "Police hang out here, Police hang out here, Police hang out here..." and repeat. Very annoying!



Trapster is available for multiple devices like RIM BlackBerry and several GPS Navigation units (Garmin, TomTom etc.) visit their website for more information: http://www.trapster.com/