Hello
@Nigel Chow,
I appreciate your approach of asking feedback from experienced users. I am more than a year on this forum, but bought a dashcam only 2 months ago and I have following comments / queries / suggestions:
1. As it is a streaming camera, I guess there isn't any screen! Is there?
2. Without a screen, the camera can be made quite invisible - I like Mobius form-factor. Or even smaller?
3. I have read horror stories of slow transfer rates - I hope this will go away with advancements in network capabilities. But what is your comment?
4. Parked near one's home, if the car battery is powering the dashcam, I guess, it can keep connected to a system in the home through home wifi and give alarm if something happens to the car!
5. Even elsewhere, I guess that the camera will remain in touch with owner's smart-phone. But will it keep sending the clips all the time? This will fill the memory of the smart-phone? Or the App in smartphone will do the loop recording (using same space, over and over)?
6. I love the IRVM mounted dashcam more, as it is not easily visible from outside and inside. However, will the distance of the camera-lens from the wind-screen cause any optical / image problem as against the usual position where camera-lens is very close to the windscreen (mounted on the glass itself)?
7. Each of the camera unit (front & rear) may have two cameras (looking in opposite direction) to cover inside & outside. I am suggesting this, because, without a screen, you have margin to add some extra hardware.
I don't know much about the modern gadgets like smartphones, but hope that this feedback may be of some help.
Ravi_M