Nextbase IQ

Nigel said:
And most incidents are similar, your insurance pays out and you have still had the incident, dashcam or not, so you still pay increased insurance costs next year. Dashcams can save a lot of inconvenience, arguing about who's fault it was, but you have still had the incident and the AI had no effect on the result.

Theft from or of the car is a bit different, because you can maybe get the police to deal with the thieves if you have their faces on camera, and thus prevent it happening again, so for people who have a theft problem, it may be worthwhile. But you still end up claiming on your insurance, or paying yourself.

None of this AI seems to help with getting dangerous drivers removed from the roads, or with helping you drive more safely, and when you show the police the recording showing all the other driver's speeds, they are not going to trust the measurements, they will get it forensically analysed anyway.

One negative is that you will no longer have any excuse for editing the video, or choosing which section you show the police, they will view the original as stored by Nextbase, including interior footage, and rear if available, and presumably they have the right to view any other footage Nextbase have stored, with or without your permission if someone has been injured/killed, even if it was recorded by an iQ camera in another vehicle!
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Well that's it, it's useless in a sense for a lot of people. Mine was a rare occurrence but a bit of an increase premium was on the cards, going to swap to another insurer next year because I wasn't at fault so should be ok price wise.

Spot on with everything else, just seems like a hard sell with this Nextbase camera unless there's really a game changer. Not holding out hope on that one LoL
 
Found 3 x 30 second clips from the 4k version.
UTube channel. Mighty Gadget.
1 x night, 2 x daylight.
 
I can only find 1 daytime example and the road surface looks perfect and no sun
 
Decking said:
Found 3 x 30 second clips from the 4k version.
UTube channel. Mighty Gadget.
1 x night, 2 x daylight.
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Despite his reflections and dirty windshield, it looks pretty bad at night. Street lights are blown out and just isn't bright enough.

Oh boy. If this is true then do we have a doozy on our hands...
 
Indeed, no dashcam should sell without a CPL filter, CUZ chance are you will need it.
But maybe in a few weeks Nextbase will sell you a nice Leica branded CPL for the price of 50 dollars.
 
They designed the 380 with no CPL facility and facing the sun the footage was washed out, just a white/yellow haze

Too sophisticated, too expensive, too conspicuous

My prediction is the magazines will test it in their car parks, stationary, no vibration, or on very smooth roads, and not facing the sun, so CPL unimportant, then it will come top in a group test

I look forward to the 'real' reviews here

I've got nothing against Nextbase but as above, their design team don't appear to have a clue
 
Designers, even the ones abiding to Danish design, can very quickly totally drop the ball.
 
ozguy said:
sometimes I wonder who the hell they have designing this stuff. "Ohh we have A.I technology" BUT sorry no CPL filter which should be STANDARD on all dashcams. 😎
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"Don't worry, AI will fix it."
 
Kremmen said:
They designed the 380 with no CPL facility and facing the sun the footage was washed out, just a white/yellow haze

Too sophisticated, too expensive, too conspicuous

My prediction is the magazines will test it in their car parks, stationary, no vibration, or on very smooth roads, and not facing the sun, so CPL unimportant, then it will come top in a group test

I look forward to the 'real' reviews here

I've got nothing against Nextbase but as above, their design team don't appear to have a clue
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Of course not, like a lot of YouTube reviews and blogs out there, it's paid review bulls hit. Keep your mouth shut and we'll keep sending you review units.

Of course, then the disappointed customers flood in, wondering why their 1000 dollar dashcam doesn't work the way they wanted it to. When it butchers the basics. F uck me dead *facepalm*
 
Certainly all I’ve seen so far is glossy marketing stuff, “the real sell”. And a couple of very sketchy 30 sec, poor quality uploads. But as Nextbase contributions on this forum have totally dried up, it will be interesting to see what happens as sales take off.
 
Decking said:
Certainly all I’ve seen so far is glossy marketing stuff, “the real sell”. And a couple of very sketchy 30 sec, poor quality uploads. But as Nextbase contributions on this forum have totally dried up, it will be interesting to see what happens as sales take off.
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Have to wonder if sales will take off at those prices though lol
 
Depending on when you are told about all the extra monthly payments. Possibly not until you’ve opened the box. I might pop down to my local Halfords and see how they’re selling it.
 
The Nextbase presence here, seem to taper off with the last series and the problems with them.
And it is for sure normal that if you do not like to hear the truth, you will do what you can to avoid that.

It is of course also hard to listen to, when your hands are tied and there is nothing you can do.
 
Decking said:
Depending on when you are told about all the extra monthly payments. Possibly not until you’ve opened the box. I might pop down to my local Halfords and see how they’re selling it.
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Ask how much interest they've got and how much they've sold at your local. Should be interesting
 
It will be interesting to hear whether the Halfords staff know much about what they're selling. I might go test them on that just for fun!
 
Just took a look around the locals, and no one carry these new models,,,,,, yet.

I would be interested in hearing what Halfords have to say / show.
 
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