All the factors mentioned above, including markedly decreased sales, patent litigation, employee layoffs, encryption everywhere, and Uniden's most recent response (or lack thereof) in coming out with promised features, doesn't look good at all.
I was unaware of the layoff situation until read the last few comments. This may indeed be the beginning (and perhaps farther along) of the end of what has been a fairly solid company.
Who really knows about the dongle issue or why firmware updates have not come out. For all we know, maybe Uniden has not paid the "dongle" people or "firmware updater" engineers, or whatever. There very well may be more to this story than we are being told.
It would not at all surprise me if we don't read next that a well-known Uniden representative on this RRDB has decided to call it quits. Who really knows what is going on there at Uniden. But it doesn't smell good from my vantage point. At this point, even if the Wi-Fi and analyze features show up in the next week or two, I probably have purchased my last Uniden scanner. Hard to have much confidence in them anymore. It's really too bad, but perhaps they are victims of economic times and ever-advancing technology.
As someone posted above, how many of us have bought a Uniden product other than a scanner recently. I certainly have not. I hope all my comments are proven wrong, but it doesn't look good.
Steve AA6IO
