Re: Dash cams

Cameo <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:15:16 +0100
Newsgroups alt.autos.subaru
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?