Re: Dash cams

Cameo <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?

Already mentioned in my 2nd reply, but not an exhaustive list.