SpacerThe versatile Thinkware M1 Motorsports Cam helps you capture all of your adrenaline-filled motorsports adventures. View Action Cam Gimbal Details Built-in WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity let you upload saved footage to your mobile phone using the Thinkware Link app, so you can easily view, edit, and share videos. your camera is metered, but guess what - if you have 300 minutes and the camera isn't actually sending you footage, you're staring at a progress wheel or empty connection, but it's taking your minutes away regardless. Problem one - to control the dashcam you connect to WiFi. Which ties up WiFi. Cleverly you can sign on to hotspts, sorry hotspots with it talking over bluetooth, but the system expensive advanced flagship models. Today's top dash cams come with 4K recording and built-in LTE cloud

The Thinkware U1000 was released in 2019, while the Q1000was launched this 2022 - so it's understandable that the features of the latter are more advanced. Regarding parking features, you get the standard motion and impact detection with buffered recording, and time-lapse recording. Energy Saving 2.0 is also available on the Q1000, and it will significantly reduce power consumption and provide up to 72 hours of parking mode runtime. In terms of image quality, the front and rear cameras on the Q1000 use the same Sony STARVIS 5.14MP sensor for 2560 x 1440 QHD video. While this falls short of the U1000's 4K specification, it is a significant improvement over HD. In fact, it appears to have slightly the same image processing and video quality with the U1000, and also has a better rear camera capable of performing excellently in low lights. It also has a 156-degree wide angle view, which is wider than the U1000.SpacerThe versatile Thinkware M1 Motorsports Cam helps you capture all of your adrenaline-filled motorsports adventures. View M1 Details

In addition, there’s a ‘driver assistance’ mode that provides basic lane-keeping and distance to car in front alerts. Naturally, these warnings are audio only, and I couldn’t tell if I was activating them even when trying (apologies to the cars I tried tailgating to trigger it). The speed camera warnings are unambiguous, with lots of repeats of ‘mobile camera zone’ even if you’re not speeding. Speaking of speeding, you can remove the speed timestamp from your footage, but anyone using the Thinkware Connected logs can see how fast you’re going. Eventually you get the camera to connect and register it. Assuming you haven't hurled it out of the car screaming. The connect app works - but your camera hasn't auto connected to your home network! It can see it, there's signal, but nothing. So you load the link app, go through the cycle of finding/comnecting to network... cannot find hotspt.mode keeps an eye on your vehicle even when you're gone and will automatically record footage when an impact or Geo-fencing – get alerted when your vehicle travels out of a set area with the optional Connected Service If you're doing this over an actual phone hotspot wifi has to reset and rejoin the phone to reconnect to reenter the network you want it to join. The Thinkware Q1000 recorded good quality video by day. Even with the HDR mode off it coped well with a range of lighting conditions, including vicious low winter sun. Its wide dynamic range allowed it to expose shadowy road surfaces, without the loss of detail such as blue shades in the sky.

Receive impact notification and play video of impact on your smartphone with Smart Remote feature. Upon user consent, a 20 seconds Full-HD video (10 seconds before and after the incident) is uploaded on the server. THINKWARE CONNECTED uses your smartphone’s or mobile hotspot device’s internet connection to send and receive notifications. Carrier charges may apply. That's not all though! Rear camera to catch everything behind your vehicle, Super Night Vision 3.0 technology, coupled with HDR, enhances the Q1000's Full HD night I generally found that the equivalent systems built into my car were much more accurate at reading the road. Having warning sounds on a dash cam might be helpful in older vehicles without inbuilt systems, but even then you’d still need to learn to recognise and act on the warning – the camera can’t do it for you. Super Night Vision 3.0 with HDR – records videos that are much brighter than videos recorded without this feature.

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THINKWARE CONNECTED, our new and improved mobile app offers a wide range of smart features. Now you can truly communicate with your vehicle in real-time seamlessly. Receive impact notifications, play videos (strong impact crash in continuous recording mode, parking impact), view captured image of most recent parking, and monitor your vehicle status and driving history on your mobile. possible. Built-in Wi-Fi, GPS, and optional LTE connectivity will keep your dash cam connected and your locations Like other dash cams, footage on a very sunny day can suffer from reflections coming off the windscreen, and any dust or dirt on the screen is exaggerated. The included polarising lens cap helps to eliminate this, but there’s only one in the box, despite this being a two-camera kit. The Q1000 fits in the range between the 4K U1000 and QHD/2K Q800 Pro, it has a wider angle of view than the Q800 (154 degrees instead of 140 degrees, front and rear) and supports an optional radar module. It’s cheaper than the higher-res U1000, but there’s not a lot in it. Unlike the Q800 Pro or U1000 the dual-camera setup is the same resolution at both ends of the car. Location: Used to find your location and your parking location, as well as to receive weather information