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It’s not a negative feature and is a matter of habit, but I’d still prefer a physical button

Swipe gesture to turn the powerbank on or off.

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Leather imitation with textured plastic: some might find it cheap, I find it rather good as it makes the device less slippery and free of fingerprints.they are not super-bright as with many other products Good and detailed specifications from the manufacturer: real capacity (~65% of the advertised one) and operating temperatures are explained.Turns off automatically after 15 seconds of no power consumption.

Lightweight compared to Li-Ion competition with equal capacity.

Small dimensions compared to Li-Ion competition with equal capacity.

a gel instead of a liquid (Li-Ion) – less risk of a leakage and chemical reaction, leading to fire

Real Li-Po (Lithium-Polymer) core from Sanyo, e.g.

Vantrue changed the design of the suction mount and solved the problem in newer releases of the cam.įor pictures and specs please refer to standard reviews on the Internet.Īll in all, a very good combination: big in capacity, compact in size and lightweight.Ĥ.5 of 5 stars (long-term experience pending) Good This is a known problem and there are many complaints on Amazon.

The ball joint of the suction mount wore out from the sun heat and became loose, not firmly holding the camera in place any more.

export one frame every 15s as a JPEG) directly from the camera The workaround solution is to generate video previews (e.g. This makes it impossible to transfer 128GB of videos in a reasonable time (the microSDXC card itself can do 80Mbytes/s).

Slow USB transfer speed (10-12 MBytes/s).

Mini USB used instead of Micro USB: absolutely not critical for the functionality, it’s just the older standard and you cannot use your smartphone cable.

During the operation the dashcam gets noticeably warm around the LCD screen, but nothing critical.

Regular firmware updates from the manufacturer.

Mini USB socket is integrated into the suction cup mount – sleek solution!.

Up to 256GB microSDXC card supported and gets formatted without any issues.

Night vision (IR lights) on the rear camera.

Rubber-like surface which leaves no fingerprints.

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Dual camera (simultaneous Full HD recording).

In reality the dashcam is smaller than on pictures – a tiny package indeed.

Front and rear cam result in a combined FOV (Field of View) of 310 degrees.

Anyway, the communication with Vantrue on this is ongoing at the moment.

by utilizing H.265 instead of H.264 or reducing the framerate), but those are firmware (or – in the worst case – hardware) options which probably cannot be done without a hardware revision. Other options include reducing the video size (e.g. The problem with the latter option is that some Amazon reviews suggest that although the card would work for recordings, the USB mass storage mode would not work with this size, which is a show stopper for me. In order to include all weekly videos into the analysis and not lose the earliest ones due to loop recording (overwriting), I either need to conduct the analysis more frequently than once a week – which I don’t want to do – or obtain a bigger microSD card. 64GB of storage are good for merely ~5 hours of such video. After all we are talking FullHD/30fps at 12Mbps – this takes ~452MB per camera for 5 minutes of recording. around 8 hours of recordings per week which I also quickly analyze in order to check whether something happened while parking) the storage is insufficient. After a couple of months of usage it turned out that for my use case (e.g. With this bigger card most of the problems described below are solved, the card works perfectly. After Vantrue confirmed that they had tested a 128 GB SD card, I purchased one.

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The latest firmware update improved the picture quality and added support for 256 GB SD cards. As always, for pictures and specs please refer to standard reviews on the Internet.Īll in all a very small and well-designed dual-camera dashcam with rich functionality.