70mai Dash Cam M310, Dash Camera for Cars 1296P QHD, Smart Dash Cam Front Built in WiFi, 130° Wide-Angle FOV, WDR, Night Vision, iOS/Android Mobile App, Loop Recording, Parking Monitor, Time-Lapse

suggested by a friend who has 2 of them, very reasonably priced, physical installation was easy, directions for setup & operation were out of sync so be patient with that. have to remember to tap the button every time I park the vehicle as my outlet isn't switched. no close calls in traffic yet so no opportunity to play back, updates later.

The 70mai Dash Cam M310 was a breeze to install and set up, and the video quality is fantastic. The voice commands work flawlessly, making operation effortless.To simplify installation, I opted for a Type C Universal OBD Power Cable since my 12V supply wasn’t in the best location. This setup gave me the flexibility to power the dash cam either when the car starts or keep it running in parking mode—without the hassle of wiring through the fuse box.I was so impressed with this dash cam that I bought a second one to use as a rear camera! Since I had a 12V supply in the back of my SUV, it was much easier to install than running wires all the way to the front. The app even lets you connect both cams and rename them as "Front" and "Rear."The only downside is that to access the cam to view video through the app, you have to connect to the cams Wi-Fi hotspot—meaning I have to disconnect CarPlay to do so.Overall, it’s a fantastic dash cam for the price, and I highly recommend it!

So far it seems that the other reviews here are a tad bit inaccurate.. so far it works exactly as advertised, however it is a bit misleading as it does not come with an SD card, which considering the specific type needed for operation, would be pretty convenient if they included it with the device.It has not got hot during use, unless in direct sunlight, which is otherwise negligible anyways since the material and case seem to resist heat and allow for adequate airflow, thus leaving the device a reasonable temperature.The power requirements aren’t low enough to not drain your battery if it’s always plugged in, however they are low enough so that it can be left plugged into a portable battery stored in the cab.Seems like cloud storage is not too difficult to set up, it’s simple enough to change it’s settings on the fly via the phone app, and therefore shouldn’t be too challenging to extend a devices range so that it could constantly dump the footage and photos into a device which is far away, yet within the cameras line of sight, which would very well make this a formidable watchdog against break-ins or theft, since otherwise the footage would be stuck on the device, in the car which was just stolen and driven who knows where.So far I’m happy with the capabilities, and the potential, with the only two improvements being a clear notice that the device does not cone with an SD card, and an open source version which would allow more control over operational functions etc.

This is an affordable dash cam, it has its own app where it stores all the videos. You do need a card, so don’t forget to buy it. It has lasted me a long time about two years now, and has saved me from many “almost close calls” the video quality is good for the price and it doesn’t pick up on conversations. Easy instructions and installation

Every dash camera in the world has a limited memory. A bad dash camera might be able to store only 1 hour of video. A really nice camera might be able to store more than a few day of video. Only video-cameras in the far future can maybe store months or years of video footage.As such, even good dash cameras delete old videos to make room for new videos.Suppose you bus the camera, put the camera your car, and then you go drive around.What is the first thing, you will want to do after you've just had a car accident? Maybe write down a license plate number, call the police, etc. etc. but I mean what is the first thing you would want to do which involves THE CAMERA? Probably, tell the camera to stop deleting old videos. When you are in a car accident, you need to be able press a big red panic button to make sure recent video does not get deleted. That is not how this camera works.This dash camera will delete old video files forever and ever until you upload the video files.This camera is not customizable. This camera does what it wants to.People like you and me, cannot easily decide which videos get permanently saved.This camera has two memories:(1) memory for car accident videos(2) memory for boring video (no accidents)This dash cam (70Mai) automatically decides which videos are of you getting hit by someone else, and which are not. The camera is not super smart, so it often decides incorrectly whether you were just in a car accident or not.Here's one of many kickers: the car accident videos get deleted on a loop, just like the boring videos!If the memory runs out for the car accident video, then it will overwrite the oldest car accident with the newest.Essentially, the camera has two loops: one loop for probably important video loop; and one loop for probably boring video.The main things people will want to do with the camera are:(1) check if the camera is working/recording(2) make sure certain videos do, or do *NOT* get deleted(3) transfer videos from the camera to somewhere else.This dash cam is not designed to do that. The home page of the cellphone app has two buttons:(1) view album(2) take photo.Some features are more important than others. "Do not delete the video of the car accident I was in" is more important than taking a still picture (not a video).Right after a car accident, a still photo probably won't help as much as the video of the other person actually hitting your car.However, the button to take a still picture is the most prominent/easy-to-use button on the home screen of the cellphone app.The emergency video buffer cannot grow in size.It should start off as 0 hours of videos of car accidents.Over time, as you mark videos as "DO NOT DELETE" is should delete boring video to make room for the important video.Instead, this camera always reserves 13 gigabytes of memory for videos of car accidents.If all of your videos are boring, and the buffer of boring video is full, then your boring videos start get overwritten whether you are using the 13GB of memory for important videos or not.These engineers are lazy. They could easily make the memory for important/do not delete videos grow and shrink based on which videos were marked as "DO NOT DELETE."Instead, there is no DO NOT DELETE category at all. There is only a loop of "we think an accident occurred." The important video memory is always 13GB regardless of whether you need more memory, or less memory for important videosYou cannot use the camera without proving your email, which is weird. The camera should work and be able to talk to your cellphone, even if the camera, you, and your phone are disconnected from the rest of the internet. It is not as if the camera emails videos to you or anything like that. The email thing serves no purpose. The camera doesn't need your email. There is a password used so that random people cannot view your camera's video feed, but the password is not your email. When the cellphone app asks for your email, they are just fishing for unnecessary contact information so that they can send you junk mail.

The camera itself works well, clear video quality during the day and decent performance at night. Setup was fairly easy, and the suction mount holds up nicely on the windshield.However, I was disappointed to find that it didn’t come with an SD card, which wasn’t clearly mentioned in the product description. You can’t use it right out of the box without one, which was frustrating. For the price, I expected at least a basic card to get started.Overall, it’s a good product once you get it going, but just be aware you’ll need to buy an SD card separately.