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Here's my initial review of the new Blueskysea B1W dashcam which was supplied by Estore009 at no cost to me. I always do my best to give honest and accurate information regardless. Rather than duplicating unboxing pics I'll link to those already posted here below.
My first impression was its size- about the diameter of my thumb and the length of my longest finger- this thing is small and discreet. The owners manual is very well written in English and easily understood. Initial testing was done here at my Desk using a 2A Belkin PS to supply the 5VDC this cam uses through the usual Micro-USB port. A used Transcend 400X 64GB card formatted FAT32 functioned perfectly from the start. Later I'll try an old Samsung EVO 32GB for compatibility testing. In powering up it booted correctly with the default settings and it appeared to be recording based on the blinking red LED, which is bright and easy to see. I powered it down and checked the vid and all looked good so I went outside to the minivan for the install, which I'll cover more thoroughly in another post. Needless to say, installation of a cam this small was a breeze and should be equally easy for anyone to do. One thing I did notice is that the cam slides on and off the mount rather easily; I'd feel a lot better were that a little more secure.
After I got it mounted I went to the Menu on the Android app for doing the settings. I'm a newbie to Andriod and to my new tablet. but the App layout and design made it easy. This is a good app design which is important since it is the sole interface with this cam. After playing with the settings I put them all to default except audio which I turned off. I'll test that later when I try pit the Parking Mode. It was getting dark so I concluded things for the day there after unplugging the cam. This morning I plugged it in and headed off to work. The blinking red LED seen in my mirror was nice and steady. On getting back home earlier than expected I pulled the card and came in to view it on my laptop as it has a bigger screen. The MPEG4 files played fine in Windows app and in VLC player. One oddity I noticed was that between each vid file there is a pic file- not sure what is going on there. Several random files played well and one is here for your viewing below. Since I had the G-sensor on by default, there were several files in that folder. I was surprised the crappy roads here only activated it once while driving (and that included several rough railroad crossings), yet every time I opened a door it caught that and recorded the event. This is far better performance than i had expected and IMHO exactly how a G-sensor should behave. Perfect.
The vid quality in daytime is good for this Sony IMX323 sensor and for a budget-level cam. It's better than my G1W-S does but not as good as my WR-1 which use the same sensor. Nighttime is where this secsor excels but this cam's vids won't disappoint you. So far I'm really liking this cam and I think BlueSkySea has done well in creating a simple, easy-to-use economy dashcam for the masses. I'll update this thread below later.
Phil
Unboxing pics and review by Paul Liddon: https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/threa...1080p-wi-fi-dashcam-review.31743/#post-376739
My vid from this morning's drive:
My first impression was its size- about the diameter of my thumb and the length of my longest finger- this thing is small and discreet. The owners manual is very well written in English and easily understood. Initial testing was done here at my Desk using a 2A Belkin PS to supply the 5VDC this cam uses through the usual Micro-USB port. A used Transcend 400X 64GB card formatted FAT32 functioned perfectly from the start. Later I'll try an old Samsung EVO 32GB for compatibility testing. In powering up it booted correctly with the default settings and it appeared to be recording based on the blinking red LED, which is bright and easy to see. I powered it down and checked the vid and all looked good so I went outside to the minivan for the install, which I'll cover more thoroughly in another post. Needless to say, installation of a cam this small was a breeze and should be equally easy for anyone to do. One thing I did notice is that the cam slides on and off the mount rather easily; I'd feel a lot better were that a little more secure.
After I got it mounted I went to the Menu on the Android app for doing the settings. I'm a newbie to Andriod and to my new tablet. but the App layout and design made it easy. This is a good app design which is important since it is the sole interface with this cam. After playing with the settings I put them all to default except audio which I turned off. I'll test that later when I try pit the Parking Mode. It was getting dark so I concluded things for the day there after unplugging the cam. This morning I plugged it in and headed off to work. The blinking red LED seen in my mirror was nice and steady. On getting back home earlier than expected I pulled the card and came in to view it on my laptop as it has a bigger screen. The MPEG4 files played fine in Windows app and in VLC player. One oddity I noticed was that between each vid file there is a pic file- not sure what is going on there. Several random files played well and one is here for your viewing below. Since I had the G-sensor on by default, there were several files in that folder. I was surprised the crappy roads here only activated it once while driving (and that included several rough railroad crossings), yet every time I opened a door it caught that and recorded the event. This is far better performance than i had expected and IMHO exactly how a G-sensor should behave. Perfect.
The vid quality in daytime is good for this Sony IMX323 sensor and for a budget-level cam. It's better than my G1W-S does but not as good as my WR-1 which use the same sensor. Nighttime is where this secsor excels but this cam's vids won't disappoint you. So far I'm really liking this cam and I think BlueSkySea has done well in creating a simple, easy-to-use economy dashcam for the masses. I'll update this thread below later.
Phil
Unboxing pics and review by Paul Liddon: https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/threa...1080p-wi-fi-dashcam-review.31743/#post-376739
My vid from this morning's drive: