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Need to record what's going on with your car as you drive, or want to have a recording in case there's an accident? You might need a dashcam, a camera that mounts on your front windshield and captures everything as you drive. If so, the Thinkware F750 HD Dashcam could be a great solution, as Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ finds out when he takes one for a test drive in Denver, Colorado....
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I'm looking at a dashcam what's a
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dashcam this is a dashcam this is the
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think we're f 750 ands little camera
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right there and basically you connect it
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to your windshield and you angle it so
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that it's level and then it records
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everything it sees out the front now
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it's a pretty nifty device because this
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one is full HD and it's actually a 2.1 9
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megapixel camera has a hundred and 40
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degree viewing angle let's cut and I'll
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show you a quick foot a bit of footage
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of me actually driving with this and
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it's recording
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so one of the things that really
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surprised me with the think we're f 750
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is that it actually has some traffic
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smarts in it too because it hooks up to
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an app on your phone and it knows
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geolocation so as I'm driving along it's
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actually giving me red light and speed
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camera warnings so that's pretty sweet
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actually it was an unexpected benefit
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works with micro SD cards up to 64 gig
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they say you should use theirs we didn't
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try other micro SD cards that one worked
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okay and it one thing that's cool is
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that there's a micro USB connection you
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can actually have a rear HD camera too
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so you can record both simultaneously
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for that full 360 degree view of
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everything around your car in recording
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in ten minute mp4 intervals let's see
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you can also do a parking surveillance
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system if you hardwire it didn't really
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get a chance to test that very much
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really really slick as you can saw it's
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very good quality video output that it
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gives you there are some cons with this
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device however the most important of
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which is that as you saw in that footage
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and I'll show you in this footage again
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there's no speed indicators so there's
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some data that it would be nice to have
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also on there you know so it goes and
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the Wi-Fi connectivity this has built-in
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Wi-Fi so it makes it easy to connect it
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with your phone but it's not very fast I
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do not recommend that as a way to
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download your videos what I did is I
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just popped out the micro SD card and
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put it in my computer directly and then
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it's lightning fast super fast and in
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the same spirit you can do a live view
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from your phone of the camera as it's
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recording so imagine that it's like
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sitting on my windshield like this and I
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can see a live view on my phone but I
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can't record from there so that might
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just be an issue with you know
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functionality and not being able to do
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multiple simultaneously not a huge big
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deal let's see so this is $299 at think
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we're calm but if you look on Amazon I
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noticed that is a prime number on Amazon
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it's actually 269 bucks so it's a pretty
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slick device do you need
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dash cam maybe maybe not it does lots of
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smart things in terms of like if you get
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into an accident it can automatically
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save that video which of course gives
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you good data if the accidents in front
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of you and otherwise it's kind of fun
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it's a bit of a novelty to be able to
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have video of you driving through heavy
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traffic or bad weather or something but
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for the average Joe I don't know I don't
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know that a dashcam is that important it
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is fun though so again this is the think
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where f 750 dash cam full HD 299 bucks
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and think we're calm and I haven't
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really decided if I'm going to keep it
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in my car or not so we'll see anyway
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this is Dave Taylor catch you in my next
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video
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