Re: Dash cams

Cameo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Smartphones don't have the video looping feature dash cams have. On the 
> other hand, it seems that even the oldest phones can record better 
> videos, especially in the dark, than most dash cams I've seen. I never 
> figured why a dash cam costing a couple hundred $s can't be made with 
> better lenses. The incremental cost couldn't be that much.

That wouldn't be a limitation of the smartphone, but of the app.  The
ones I looked at had looping (i.e., continuous recording with a
user-configurable length based on available memory and resolution).
They also would upload the videos to online storage instead of hope the
phone with it's internal SD card or a USB drive survived a crash, and
obviously provided access to video after theft of the device.