Labradar just released a firmware update and bluetooth apps for Android and IOS devices. I have not had a chance to try them out yet. Just a heads up for those who didn't get the memo.

They also are selling the units for $50 off right now.

Thanks for the heads up!

Is buying one direct the best deal, etc.?

I bought mine from Midway a few months ago. They have free shipping right now on orders over $99.

I updated mine on Saturday morning (as I was planning on chronographing a load anyway). The firmware update was pretty simple to do and I was able to connect my phone to my LR easily enough. It works pretty slick in the limited testing I did. You can change the unit settings on the LR from your phone, or you can have your phone display different units from your LR. Have your LR display meters, m/s, grams, and joules while your phone displays yards, fps, grains, and ft*lbs, etc... You can view previous shot strings and even arm and disarm the radar right from your phone. I like it!

Of course, when I got to the range I realized I'd left the tripod home so the actual live testing of it was a no-go.

There is a video here if you want visual instructions on how to update the firmware.

There were problems at the indoor range where I volunteer with LabRadars. It turned out a phone call to the company got the owner a menu link to a software change that solved that problem.

I updated mine last week. It connects just fine and able to arm/disarm from the phone behind the gun is WAY nicer than having to get up and arm and get back in the gun for sure. The app itself is a bit clunky but I only got it for the arm/disarm feature and it does that well.

I concur with the comments above. Makes life good not having to jack with the buttons on the unit. It would be really nice if you could rename strings so you didn't need to keep track of which was what. Took me a while to figure out how to create a new string with the plus button and that the unit can't be armed if you are trying to do things like add strings - classic UBD, user brain damage. Also with the Labradar app on the phone it won't let my hearing aid app connect to my hearing aids at any time. Removed the app and all is well but I need to call and find out what is going on so I don't need to haul my ipad to the range. Also would like to have available one screen for each string that shows - high/low/mean/SD/extreme spread.

What a joy these toys are. Anyone in the Houston area want a free Oehler 35P?

While renaming a shot string would be a neat feature to have, it's lower on my list. I'd rather have the ability to add to a previous shot string. While I didn't do it too often, it was nice to be able to load test different loads in a round-robin fashion.

By-the-way, if anyone of you haven't updated in the past day or two LabRadar has published another minor firmware update. It's now at version 1.2.2 that's supposed to fix a few minor bugs in the previous release.

Is the IOS app available yet?

Yes that is what I am using. A simple search in the app store would have been faster than asking here.

I did get the email from Labradar but noticed they said Android was ready and IOS was a few days out and when I searched the App Store yesterday nothing was found so when I saw this thread I I thought I would ask!

Thanks Ill do another search!

No worries man all in good fun. It came right up when I searched for it so you should be all set.