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Recommend Uber Lyft Drivers and People Who Want Premium Recorders to Buy!
I love this camera for recording what happened in front of and inside the car. If you are an Uber or Lyft driver, you are supposed to have a durable, high-performance and reliable (both in day and at night) dash cam to film what happened not only on the road ahead but also in your vehicle as an evidence to protect you and your passengers. In the situations like your customers lost something, you are robbed, and your passengers give you negative feedback for no reason, the working recorder will save you! The model has a unique vertical 270-degree dual camera which is awesome for drivers. The resolution is high and it depends on how you set up and the SD-card you used. I will suggest a 128gb SD-card be used for recording videos and a backup 128gb SD-card to be stand-by.
I had some concerns about the electric support for this dash cam before purchase because the specification indicates that the built-in battery has just 320 mA capacity and such battery need to support dual camera running. The truth is that I worried too much. It runs well for 3.5 hours and it just used nearly two-thirds of battery capacity after first full charge (I don’t know if it’s accurate as there are just three levels of battery capacity). The determined issues that eliminate my concerns are that the C2 model can be charged in a car by the cigarette lighter cable which means you would never run out of electricity. As I suggested, if you have a backup SD-card, it’s extremely hard to face the memory and electricity problem.
You will be able to use a TV or any monitors and a HDMI cable to playback what you have recorded by C2. It’s more convenient than just TF-card playback by computer. There are two reasons for why it’s more convenient. Firstly, you will not like to use C2 itself playback as the screen is tiny and you are not able to track details in videos. Secondly, you will not need to uninstall and reinstall again and again and one more SD-card reader to see recorded videos by your laptop or Mac. I have a 22’ monitor and HDMI cable so I just need to insert and remove TF card for twice at the time of installation and full of memory in total. As both SD-card and SD-card slot are very weak and easy to be broken, decreasing the installation times will help. If you can use the feature of GPS of this cam, I bet it will make your recorded videos more reliable and evidential than not. You can use either a strong sticker or a sucking disc to stabilize the position of the dash cam. I used sucking disc as it’s very firm and easy to operate.
In my opinion, C2 had already made distinctions between itself and other 30 bucks and 60 bucks dash camera. I think I just get how much I paid and I am really happy to have the great product. In other words, it’s worth to pay a premium price for a premium product. This dash camera is friendly to dummies and there is almost no cost for you to adjust its features and functions.
If you ask me whether there can be improvements for this product, I would always like to say yes. The direction of Mini USB port should be in reverse as the power cable is not straight down when in use. However, it not a big deal. The button for control is a bit more but this may not be a shortcoming because the dash camera is using in a driving scenario in which drivers are supposed to click the right functional button at one time rather than looking at the camera’s screen. And it will be great if the C2 had a horizontal rotation camera feature.
Long-term use reviews and other advantages or disadvantages will be updated and all kinds of comments are extremely welcomed!
September 2017 · Electronics · verified purchase