Any Reviews on Kim Komando's Dash Cam - I'm looking to buy.

russ331 said:
Whatever you choose, please don't spend $250 on a camera that hasn't been properly reviewed.
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I was thinking the same thing. This is a camera I believe none of us has seen before and while it appears to have a good feature set and probably uses an Ambarella AL7 chip, there is no indication of what quality or focal length lens it has, or what aperture and FOV it covers. There is also no indication of what capacity battery it has along with other important specifications of interest to dash cam buyers that good vendors usually list and this can be a red flag. There are all too many cheaply produced, highly overpriced dash cams on the market being offered to poorly informed buyers.

Edit: Looking further at the many overpriced products being marketed on this web site under the "Kim Komando" moniker, this "Komando Dash Cam" seems a poor bet compared to other available options.
 
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reverend said:
Is Kim Komando a porn star?
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No, she is "America's Digital Goddess" (according to her web site). She has a TV show and is a syndicated tech columnist. Her 'advise' is 'useful' mostly to totally uninformed digital technology users.

In my mind her physical appearance is her only claim to fame.

http://www.komando.com/
 
@DT MI beat me to the explanatory post but it may be amusing to some that Komando is her real name (Russian-Ukrainian) She had a background selling mainframe computers and wrote a column about computers for the Arizona Business Gazette. This led to her call-in talk show on computers which later branched out to other consumer electronics after she gained popularity and computers had become ubiquitous. At one time, when people were fairly new to the use of personal computers her on-air advice was actually quite useful to some.

Edit: DT MI mentions that Komado has a TV show but she's primarily been a long time radio talk show personality. Her syndicated show is broadcast on over 450 stations.
 
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Dashmellow said:
...DT MI mentions that Komado has a TV show but she's primarily been a long time radio talk show personality. Her syndicated show is broadcast on over 450 stations.
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Oops, my bad. I'm personally not a fan of hers. I've seen her on TV and just assumed she had her own show. Does not appear that's the case. She is entertaining but, for the most part, not a lot of in depth content - at least from what I've observed.
 
I have a sample of this model, video quality is ok, still needs some sorting though

It sells in some markets branded as Polaroid
 
DT MI said:
Oops, my bad. I'm personally not a fan of hers. I've seen her on TV and just assumed she had her own show. Does not appear that's the case. She is entertaining but, for the most part, not a lot of in depth content - at least from what I've observed.
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Some time ago, I caught parts of her show a few times on a local station while lying in bed at 6 am on Saturday mornings. The show didn't exactly light my fire but she offered some common sense advice to listeners about whatever the malware was that was circulating at the time. Then she went and ruined it all by endorsing a particular AV product. :(
 
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Her show aired here maybe 5 years ago. Newbie-level advice was good, nothing much above that though.

There are many well known, well reviewed, and highly thought of cams at that price. I'd recommend you stay with one of them or find more info on that one before buying.

Phil
 
Thanks for all the interesting feed back. The Komando website was quick to send me a link to the user manual and that shows the camera to be a 4SK888. Now I can compare to others Thanks again for the help.
http://www.getdashcam.com/products2/
 
One of the clearest and longest user manuals I've ever seen (48 pages!) Has some rather advanced features. One is a "driver fatigue" warning, but it only warns on the half-hour and by then I'd be snoozing. Falling asleep gets easier the older you get :rolleyes: It will 'lock' up to 10 files, but when you add another one it overwrites the old 'locked' file which I think isn't a good idea- locked files should never be overwritten without manual input of some sort :mad: And French-speaking people will not like their section of the manual which is 180 degrees inverted :confused: Didn't see anything regards hardware or CMOS specs, but it did say the largest card usable was 32GB. If it's video performance and reliability is up to snuff this might be a good cam for the money.

Phil
 
the challenge with the lock files if you let them build up it can then stop the camera working, or stop lock files happening
 
Yes, but nothing saved becomes lost when that happens. If you let a card fill up then that is a user-fault which no manufacturer can fix :rolleyes:

I would be more than very angry if a file I thought was secure got overwritten without my commanding that. I was almost that mad when my first dashcam stopped recording without any indication of trouble, but at least I did not need those files.

Phil
 
it's a difficult situation as you need to cater more to uneducated users than you do the educated ones, I've seen people that drive around with lock files from months prior that don't copy them off, there's a finite amount of memory available and some houseekeeping has to happen
 
jokiin said:
it's a difficult situation as you need to cater more to uneducated users than you do the educated ones, I've seen people that drive around with lock files from months prior that don't copy them off, there's a finite amount of memory available and some houseekeeping has to happen
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A friend of mine's Dad was having trouble with his computer (a Macintosh). It turned out that he'd been dragging items to the trash for months but didn't know you need to empty the trash now and again.
 
Dashmellow said:
A friend of mine's Dad was having trouble with his computer (a Macintosh). It turned out that he'd been dragging items to the trash for months but didn't know you need to empty the trash now and again.
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I worked in IT previously and we had around 300 users on exchange email, a couple of the most senior management had multiple folders created within their deleted items folders, fortunately not a system I had to have anything to do with but for the guy that looked after email it was always a headache
 
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