![]() ![]() The Nexar provides a one-year warranty just in case.Sales of dash cams are soaring in the UK – helped by car insurance companies beginning to offer significant premium discounts for drivers who use themĭashboard cameras are becoming more and more popular in the UK, as everyone from new drivers to taxi and Uber drivers use them to record their journey. The cameras also ran fairly cool, and should hold up decently in hot and cold weather conditions. There’s a battery on board which powers the Nexar Pro for a good 5 – 10 seconds after the power is pulled. Night interior captures are very good, better than it might seem in this capture.ĭespite their 720p resolution, I’d call the Nexar Pro’s front captures more than workable, and the interior captures as good as I’ve seen. The back of the rearview mirror is well inside the focal range and hence appears, well, out of focus. Note that details are better defined at the distance of the front seats. Thanks to the massive array of infrared lights surrounding the interior camera lens, night interior captures look very good. However, lighten them up and there’s plenty of detail visible. The Nexar Pro’s exterior night captures drift to the red/orange, and are dark by default. On the plus side, headlight flare is handled extremely well. The street lights in my neighborhood have an orange tint, but not this orange. In other words, detail is captured, it’s just not apparent at the default rendering.Ĭolor is nicely saturated, but skewed slightly towards the red end of the spectrum. However, while you may not be able to discern a ton of detail in the capture below, brightening the image cures that. Night exterior captures on the other hand, are merely average. This is an excellent daytime interior capture. IDG facilities manager Luis Ibarra vaguely worried about my driving as I head for the indoor parking garage. This looks like a roughly 140 degree field of view as well.Īs noted, most interior cameras capture at 720p, and the Nexar Pro’s interior captures are among the best I’ve seen. Interior day captures, shown below, feature good color, more than adequate detail, and coverage of nearly the entire interior. Though there’s some slight fisheye, the Nexar Pro’s exterior day captures are quite good. There is, however, a bit of fisheye evident from what appears to be a 140 degree field of view lens, as you can see in the capture below. But the captures below show the camera set to GMT (our local Pacific time, plus 7 hours) before its link with the phone set the proper time zone.Įxterior day captures showed good color saturation and decent detail, while direct bright light was also handled well, not blowing out the entire image. The camera captures video out of the box without user intervention or the app. An app update finally allowed proper connection (better). During initial testing I was unable to successfully connect with two separate Android phones, including an up-to-date Pixel 4 (worse). The Nexar Pro is a phone-centric dash cam with all settings and views being accessible from that adjunct-for better or worse. Nexar includes a 32GB card at the $169 base price, but you can save quite a bit of money if you upgrade or replace your micro SD card from another source. As the presence of a slot indicates, that internal memory is actually standard, removable micro SD cards. Note: Nexar refers to “internal memory” on the Pro’s product page, and allows you to upgrade Apple-style at similarly boosted prices. Other than the ports for the various attachments, the Pro features only the lens body, indicator lights for power and Wi-Fi, and an micro SD card slot. The power cord connects to the GPS module, which in turn connects to the main camera via another short mini-USB cable. The Nexar Pro ships with a auxiliary port USB adapter plus a Type-A to mini-USB cable for powering the unit. Nexar’s Pro features two separate cameras, though you might get the idea that they’re joined from this photo. With a longer cable, you could likely use it as a rearview camera. You tether it to the main camera using a short micro-USB cable. The interior camera relies on a small, semi-permanent sticky mount rather than a suction mount. A whopping ten infrared lights surround the lens of the interior camera, which creates very bright interior night captures. ![]()
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