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Once you get the Nextbase 622GW 4K GPS Dashcam set up, you'll have crystal clear video footage of everything that happens both in front and behind your car while you're driving, whether it's to the local market or across the country. The front camera features a 4K HD capture system with GPS - up to 120fps! - while the tiny rear camera records in full HD. Tech expert and car writer Dave Taylor hooked up the Nextbase 622GW + Nextbase rear dashcam and took it for a drive... The results: Great dashcam footage, but, as with so many dashcams, the app isn't the best experience.
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this dash cam lets you record front and
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rearfacing footage let's check it
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[Music]
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out dave Taylor here and I drive a lot
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in the last week I think I've averaged
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about 2 or 3 hours per day behind the
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wheel some of it on one of the busiest
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and honestly most dangerous highways in
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the state of Colorado the speed limit 75
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people routinely pass you weaving in and
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out at 90 miles an hour or faster it's
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pretty bonkers if something were to
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happen then having some sort of proof of
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an incident an accident someone being
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violent or aggressive on the road would
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be invaluable one of the many reasons
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it's really great to get a dash cam and
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put it in your car so what I'm looking
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at today is this this is the Nextbase
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622GW 4K GPS dash cam and they also sent
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me their rear-facing camera too isn't
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that great just a little ball and you
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just basically stick it on your back
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window or if you have a hatchback like
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me on the back hatch and you're going to
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say "Uh how do you do that?" It's super
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easy it is this little device and it has
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adhesive so you basically adhere it to
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the window and then you just simply use
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the magnet so that the rear camera is
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pointing in the right direction and then
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it's pretty easy to adjust it to get it
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just right now I will admit rearfacing
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cameras if you look in the rear view
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mirror you're going to see it but I
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imagine that is something that's helping
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protect me so I like it i had mine
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mounted smack dab in the center of my
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rear window you could put it on a side
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and angle it i think if you were really
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trying to minimize that of
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invasiveness it does require a pretty
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hefty wire to go from the rear camera
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and you can see here there's a little
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plug here so the rear camera has a wired
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connection to the front camera and it
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does include an install tool you can use
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tape you can just run it along the top
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if you want or you can just run it down
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maybe between the seats or something i
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just let the wire lay there cuz I was
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testing if I was to use this a lot I'd
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probably get a professional install for
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front and back camera but even if you
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just want to have the wires hanging it's
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not a big deal and then this one this
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part adheres to the window and then this
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actually is magnetic so once this is on
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the window
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this just goes like that and then you
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plug in the rear camera on the side and
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then there's power here and that's this
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wire and as you can see it has a 12vt
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adapter so there's a fair bit of wiring
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to get it all set up and everything but
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it's pretty easy and this is a nice big
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screen so it makes it really easy for
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you to adjust things not only that but
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once you hook up the rear camera it
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shows what the rear camera is seeing so
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you can also use this to adjust that
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rear camera probably that's easiest to
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do with two people so you can be looking
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at the screen and saying "No tilt it a
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little down to the left." Nope I mean
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the right there you go ah now the
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horizon is level so some point I imagine
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these programs or these devices will
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just have automatic horizon detection
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and they'll just adjust it as needed but
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for now yeah I got a little bit of
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fiddling to do luckily it pairs with
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their okay my next base connect app i
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will say it's one of the nicest looking
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app icons I've seen for a while so I
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give them credit for that but enough
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talking there's more to talk about but I
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know you want to see demos so let's jump
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into some demo footage starting with a
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forward view and at a certain point I'm
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going to slow it down so you can hear
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what it records with
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[Music]
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audio whoa whoa whoa let's slow this
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down just in case you're curious this is
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what the voice recording sounds like
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inside my car when I'm driving about 75
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miles an hour on the highway so there's
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a fair amount of road noise my car is
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not the quietest one on the highway but
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this gives you a good demo now let's
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speed up again
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[Music]
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as with all of these devices nighttime
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is harder it does have a special sensor
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for low light and it also has another
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one for extreme weather so if you're
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driving through fog or driving through a
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misty or cloudy conditions it supposedly
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is able to actually get a clearer
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impression or clearer image i didn't
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have a chance to test that so I can't
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verify it but the night vision was
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pretty good the rear-facing night vision
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because it's such a wide 140° field of
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view I didn't feel that was quite so
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good but it's still helpful to be able
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to see yeah everyone was stopped and
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then that car just hit me so it's
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exactly why you have a dash cam give you
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some more specs and then we'll look at
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the app just a little bit because the
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app's also an important part of the
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experience so this camera this one is 4K
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at 30 frames per second or you can set
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it to 1440p at 60 frames per second or
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really fun 1080p you can do it at 120
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frames per second so if for some reason
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you are feeling like you need to capture
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an enormous amount of data because
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things are happening really really
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quickly you can go to you know 120
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frames per second which is basically
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going to be like slow motion so I don't
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know if you're in a demolition derby
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maybe that would be useful not sure
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otherwise when that would be helpful
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important to note 4K by default and this
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is 1K this is 1080p at 30 frames per
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second so this does not have as fancy a
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sensor but honestly I feel like that's
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entirely sufficient for the job that
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it's doing they do support something
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known as what three words which is just
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a way of saying that um anywhere you are
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on earth instead of having to specify
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latitude and longitude which is
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complicated you can actually use the
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what three words system to have three
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English words that uniquely identify
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your location also super helpful if you
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get into an accident because it can
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generate the what three words for your
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current location as part of its SOS in
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fact it does have something that is an
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emergency SOS feature but let's see so
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image
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stabilization night vision extreme
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weather fog built-in Alexa not really
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sure why I would need it built into my
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dash cam but you can set it up which is
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nice uh has a parking mode sensor and
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they say it will be able to run for 2
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and 1/2 weeks when it's just been used
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for a while because it has its internal
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onboard battery you won't see anything
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but there's a G-Shock sensor that should
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then turn on the cameras for recording
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and then turn itself off again so
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includes a 64 gig micro SD card and let
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me just pop it out and show you because
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like so many of these it is this super
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tiny little card and the reason dash cam
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companies include their own cards is
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because people have a tendency to buy
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cheap SD cards or micro SD cards and
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they're too slow so this is a high-speed
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card and then it comes with an adapter
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so you can just slide this into the
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adapter let's see like that and so now
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it becomes effectively an SD card which
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I can then plug into my computer and go
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through all of the footage super fast
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which is exactly how I grabbed all that
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demo footage really really beneficial if
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you don't want to hassle with the app
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but we can also use the app and let me
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just go ahead and put this back in the
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dash cam and the way SD cards work is
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you try to put it in and either it fits
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or it doesn't if it doesn't fit you got
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it the wrong way flip it 180 so that's
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about easy enough right um so the rear
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is a wired camera as I said there's a
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fair amount of wiring it also comes with
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a um mini USB to
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USBA and the intent of this is they say
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you should charge this for a couple
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hours before first use and that's for
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things like that parking sensor they
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want to make sure that it's all juiced
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up in that rechargeable battery so that
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if you drive it 10 minutes to the store
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and then go in the store and 2 hours
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later someone bumps you this will
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actually have enough juice to be able to
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capture that footage so very helpful and
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dimensions wise this is 2 in by 3 1/2 or
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3.7 in by 1.8 in it's about a pound and
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let me show you that app so give me a
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second let me get some stuff switched
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around and get my notes the app
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experience is pretty good i haven't yet
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found a dash cam that has a great app
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experience i think it's just a really
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hard thing to have it be super intuitive
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and super easy to work with plus you
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have this dilemma because this has a lot
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of data and whether you have one minute
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segments or two minute segments or five
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minute segments each file is big so
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there are just inherent challenges in
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the way these are designed and work but
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the my next base app is pretty good so
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let me launch it and so now we're at the
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home screen you can see they really want
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you to hook up um the Alexa feature
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whatever let's go to live view which
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then requires a Wi-Fi connection from
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your phone to the dash cam so these dash
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cams have built-in Wi-Fi it creates its
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own Wi-Fi network and then I can easily
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switch between front view and back view
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and I really like the way that they show
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sort of the front half of the car and
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the back half of the car and you can
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just tap to switch which view that you
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want um and then I'm going to switch on
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the bottom i'm going to tap on the
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library button and that actually will
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take a second but it will show me tiny
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thumbnails for all the footage that's on
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the dash cam at that moment and we'll go
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to rear view and I'll tap to view it and
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then I'm going to save and download it
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and this will take a couple of seconds
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i'm going to speed this up then I can
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also look at telemetry information and
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just that sort of generic info tab and
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you can't really see it and I certainly
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got confused for a while but at the top
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left there is an extremely tiny little
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very light blue arrow that you can tap
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on to move back to the previous screen
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it is so subtle that the first time I
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was trying to record the demo I
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literally just quit the app and started
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it up again to get back from that screen
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so next base programmer guys you might
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want to make that a little bit more
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contrasty so people know it's there just
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saying um so now we're looking at the
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dash cam and if I tap on the three dots
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option you can see I can make some
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changes to thumbnail size i can just
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look at the front view or rear view
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footage here's the emergency SOS if I
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want to set that up and then if I go
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back to the home screen and I tap on the
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so-called hamburger menu on the top left
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and go to settings there's a bunch of
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settings so let's go ahead and turn off
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the stamp for the dash cam model number
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and that's going here tapping on off and
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then I'll go a little further down and
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I'll actually turn off dual files
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because by default it records a large
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image and a smaller image i should say
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large video and smaller video for each
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of the cameras so the idea of the
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smaller one is it's easier for you to
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share with people and to be able to
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download it more quickly because
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obviously it's a smaller file and then
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you have the larger ones if you need
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them but it does take up a lot of memory
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and so it does consume that card storage
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space faster in fact let's do that SD
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card analysis now don't panic because
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the way these are all designed is that
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once it's full it will actually
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overwrite the oldest file so it never
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really runs out of space it will just
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start consuming older video footage
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which means that you might occasionally
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need to go and tap to lock things and
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that's where if you look at this closeup
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you can see that there's a button that
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lets you actually lock that footage so
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it can sort of mark it as don't
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overwrite and then if you remember when
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we were looking at the dash cam tab
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options one of the options was um locked
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files only so it does have that
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mechanism but that's the app and I'll
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tell you I did do some cutting and
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editing here so that it would be a
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fairly quick demo but it does take a
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little while to get used to or you can
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do what I do with most of these dash
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cams which is I set it up if I use the
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app to get all the settings how I want
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and then when I'm actually working with
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footage I just pop the card out and just
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go directly from the card to my computer
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without having this Wi-Fi network in the
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middle you can choose which path is
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easier for you but that's everything
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that is the full dash cam experience so
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this like I said is the Nex
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622GW but before we go any further I'm
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going to invite you to subscribe to my
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value and if there's something I missed
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that you wish I would have demoed or
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talked about leave that in the comments
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cuz then I'll just do it better next
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time that's kind of how that works sweet
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this is the Nexbase
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622GW 4K GPS dash cam and it is
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$379.99 currently discounted way down to
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$295.99 at amazon.com
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this is the Next Base rear dash cam and
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it is
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$99.99 currently discounted down to
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$79.99 which means if you want to buy
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both of these and I recommend you do cuz
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why not if you're going to have footage
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why not have footage from both sides of
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your car then your total's
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$375.99 for 4K plus 1K HD video footage
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with all of the features and
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capabilities that I explained here it
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will take you some time to get it set up
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and installed and all mounted in the
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right you know locations on your window
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and stuff but once you do it really is a
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plug and forget so once I had this set
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up I just drove and parked and then got
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back in my car and turned it on and
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drove again super easy so lots to like
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here definitely one worth checking out
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it's what I got hope to catch you in my
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next video
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