Whistler is an entirely different company than Uniden. They bought GRE, a company that made my first police radio. It was a slide rule dial VHF High monitor developed in the mid-60s and rebranded as the Radio Shack realistic Pro1... I think I bought it in 1969. It was made in Japan of course as President Nixon had not even opened trade with China yet.
GRE then continued on to make many multiple scanners that they designed and modified mostly rebranded as Radio shack, the most famous being the pro 96 the first digital handheld scanner that competed with the Uniden BC - 250 both introduced in 2003, some of the radios that Whistler offers today as their top-of-the-line scanners are basically the same technology as the pro 96. In my opinion modulation blew the doors off Uniden.
Whistler appears to be a much smaller company and although they added a keyboard to the psr-800 and made internal changes through former GRE engineers they have never actually develop their own scanner. Their base unit is the long-awaited PSR 900 that was never released by GRE and was released as the ws1095 by Whistler.
So not to take away from Uniden's unexcusable debacle I don't think it would have mattered when Uniden brought out those SDS radios. I don't think a delay would have made a difference. They were responding to whistlers dishonest and deceptive marketing ploy making everyone including their loyal followers who were sitting on the edge of their chair with money in their fists thinking that a scanner was in development and coming out in late 2018. I'm not sure a delay in the release of whistler's offering will make any difference. I think you can figure out pretty fast if you can stuff a LSM capable radio into the case of a psr-800 with a keyboard, not sure how important waiting to get it right matters. Who knows?
Sorry I don't follow this corporate loyalty insanity worshipping marketing individuals. I'm just looking for more bang for my buck, my loyalty rests with the green papers in my pocket with pictures of Dead Presidents and founding fathers on them. I would love Whistler to come out with a great LSM capable radio THAT WORKED RIGHT in the same encasing they inherited from GRE, I would just remove that bulky spare tire casing off of it and have a nice compact solid radio with a nice bright clear Easy-to-Read display.
