Re: Dash cams
Cameo <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:15:16 +0100
| Newsgroups | alt.autos.subaru |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 2/23/2021 1:08 AM, VanguardLH wrote: > 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. > What mobile app could do that?