The author is very familiar with the DASH CAM. In order to provide a shopping guide evaluation for users who have never contacted and want to buy a recorder in the near future, this article will not talk about hardware chips. In fact, the dispute between chips has never been stopped, whether it is Anba or Lianyong. It is also a good thing that the benevolent see the benevolent and the wise see the competition. However, for primary consumers, these chips will not attract much attention from users, and users are more concerned about the clarity and function richness of recorders.

Xplore C1+DASH CAM claims to be able to challenge the smallest intelligent DASH CAM in the world. Before getting the real object, the author has been using a ROCK Celestial Eye DASH CAM which also claims to be very small. So who can win in the challenge of size? Let's have a look!

parts

As always, Iron Man showed up in friendship. The black and simple packaging style contained an Xplore C1 with flash, social sharing, G-sensor, WiFi direct connection, video editing, GPS and many other functions.

When I opened the package, even though I saw the tiny ROCK Celestial Eye, I couldn't help marveling at Xplore C1. This product is too small, and I really doubt whether its functional parameters can meet the standard. You know, a recorder with powerful functions and high definition must be enough in hardware. If the hardware shrinks, it may affect the performance of the recorder. Xplore C1 is equipped with host head, mounting bracket, cigarette lighter car charger, data cable and a Bluetooth flash device as standard.

Among the envelopes that came with the box, the Xplore manufacturer also sent a very beautiful postcard. I won't tell you that there are many postcards of smart products here. I will show them to you in the future. These manufacturers are very diligent, and the postcards are very suitable and beautiful.

One thing to remind you is that the manual of Xplore C1 is hidden in the A side of the opened box, which is a bit surprising, because the author wanted to look through the manual without knowing the WiFi password, but he turned over the bottom of the box for a long time, but couldn't find it. Finally, he looked up and found that I was dizzy. It was hidden in this small gap, embarrassed.

Although the sparrow is small, it has all five internal organs. Take out this Xplore, which claims to be the smallest in size, and look around. There are power supply contacts, power buttons, cameras, and cooling holes.

Compared with the author's ROCK Celestial Eye, ROCK Celestial Eye is actually small enough. I didn't expect that Xplore C1 would be even smaller. It seems that it is not boastful to challenge the smallest tachograph in the world. It is really short and powerful!

The Xplore manufacturer also gave a 32GB C10 tf card as a special gift, which is very helpful! The 16g tf card that the author has been using can only store records for two or three days according to the kilometers and hours of driving every day. The capacity doubles, and the recording time naturally doubles. On the front of the tf card, Xplore also announced the product communication QQ group, where you can download the latest version of firmware for product upgrading.

assemble

Ok, after installing the tf card, let's see how to connect Xplore. There are also metal contacts on the support of Xplore C1, which are sealed with the contacts of the host head, and then powered by the vehicle charger connected to the data line. When connecting, be sure to pay attention to the direction of the metal contact.

In addition, you don't need to worry about whether the metal contact will fall off and cause power interruption. The Xplore host head is equipped with a groove. When we connect the support and the host head with force, the support will be stuck in the groove of the host head, so that the two can be tightly stuck together. Of course, if we want to split it, we need some strength to pull it out.

As we mentioned just now, the power supply of Xplore C1 comes from the data cable connected to the car charger, and its data cable interface adopts the common universal interface commonly used by Android phones. At the bottom of the support, 3M super glue is used to stick on the glass.

Xplore's car charger is also quite user-friendly. Considering that we may use the car charger to charge the mobile phone at ordinary times, Xplore's car charger has designed two USB ports, which is not considered by most of the tachograph manufacturers such as 360 and Rock. The two USB ports of Xplore not only support dual charging, but also distinguish 1.0A and 2.1A, It is convenient for us to charge and fast charge different electronic devices.

Choose the position you want to install. It is recommended to place it behind the rear-view mirror, so that you can not only record the scene in front of you, but also perfectly hide it behind the rear-view mirror, without affecting our driving vision. This is the advantage of small size. Unlike the 360 DASH CAM used by the author, I always feel that something is in front of me, which is uncomfortable.

Here is a small question that needs to be discussed. There are two opinions in the industry on whether it is better to use suction cups or 3M super glue for the bracket base of the dash cam. The reason why the suction cup is supported is that the 3M adhesive is easy to tear the car film when trying to move the recorder. The reason why the 3M adhesive is supported is that the suction cup is easy to fall off in cold weather or turbulence. The author supports the third method, which is to install it on the handle of the rear-view mirror. You see, the author found it difficult to remove the Xplore when he wanted to move it again because he didn't choose a good position for the first time. After taking off the Xplore with great effort, he took it off, but the car film was really torn a little, and his heart was blocked. Therefore, I suggest that the Xplore manufacturer can provide a solution for mounting on the rear-view mirror handle in the future.

use

For the Bluetooth flash shot we saw in the front accessories, we also need to talk about it separately here. This small object seems insignificant, but its functions are also very practical. When the side power key is turned on (turned to the ON position), the blue light of the Bluetooth flash shot starts flashing to find the Xplore C1 host for pairing and connection. If your Xplore is powered on, the Bluetooth flash shot will automatically pair successfully.

Pressing the Bluetooth key means that the C1 DASH CAM has taken a flash shot. In this way, we can stick it to any easily accessible position in the car. When we encounter beautiful scenery along the way, we can press the Bluetooth key to snap. It can record the first 2 seconds and then 8 seconds of wonderful videos. It is very convenient to complete the operation without entering the mobile phone client.

There are two status lights of Xplore C1, which is also an obvious difference from other tachographs. The left side is the work light, the green light is always on for video recording, and the flash light is flash shot. If there is an error in WiFi, the light will become red, and if there is an error in GPS, the light will become yellow; The power light is on the right, and the green light is also on full power. Low power has different manifestations, which is very convenient for us to check the running status of the recorder at any time. Xplore C1 Built in 180mAh lithium battery, even in It can still shoot for 20 minutes after power failure.

function

Due to the super mini size of Xplore C1, we can not directly view and implement video recording or video playback through the recorder on this DASH CAM. We need to download the "Enjoying Tribal" App mobile client. The default WiFi password is "12345678". After the connection is successful, we can see the images recorded by the DASH CAM in real time. The Wi Fi mobile phone can be connected to the mobile phone in full operation with zero traffic. Click the expand button on the right side in the middle to display the GPS map positioning at the same time as the screen.

The client also supports the horizontal screen mode. In the horizontal screen mode, there are two more buttons below the real-time screen. The left side is for recording 10s emergency video, and the right side is for one button photo recording. One interesting thing about this Xplore C1 DASH CAM is that it will automatically turn the surrounding scenes into dynamic effects when processing videos, which makes people seem to be in a hurry. I don't know whether it is deliberately done. Among many DASH CAM's, Xplore C1 is the only one and quite creative.

performance

Of course, as a tachograph, it has the function of re intelligence. The first is always the basic performance, clarity, white balance, wide angle, etc. Xplore C1 has 2 million real pixels, 155 ° golden section wide angle, ensuring 1080p high-definition and no dead angle recording of the driving record image. From the daytime picture, we can see that although the license plate number of the vehicle in front cannot be particularly clear, there is absolutely no pressure to "see clearly".

When driving at night, Xplore C1 It's a bit difficult. You can see the three lanes in the figure. In fact, the license plate numbers on the left and right can be seen clearly. But the middle one has some problems in dealing with the complicated light conditions due to the illumination of the front tail lamp and its own headlight. It should be able to see the license plate numbers of the front car clearly, but due to the interference of light, As a result, the license plate number of the front car can barely see the first two letters. In this regard, we hope that Xplore C1 can optimize the algorithm processing of night light in subsequent firmware.

In terms of function settings, the App client provides common settings such as Gsensor sensitivity, resolution, WiFi connection password, firmware upgrade, etc. to facilitate our function selection and upgrade. During the 10 day use, the author tried to test the stability of Xplore C1 from different occasions. In the process of use, it is found that the real-time image of Xplore occasionally appears blurred screen. I hope that we can find the cause and improve it. In addition, I suggest adding the driving track function in the video playback, so that we can see where we have gone today and the driving path through the video playback, and it is easier to make daily driving summary.

expand

In addition, Xplore C1's "Enjoy Tribe" also provides an extremely interesting function, that is, to edit the video that you find interesting or amusing in the playback of the day. We can cut a video to choose a beautiful filter, or choose a dynamic and beautiful music dubbing. Click Save to automatically convert the video, and then share it to your WeChat, Weibo and other social apps. Share your interesting driving records every day to more friends, and easily direct road blockbusters, which is very cool.

summary

This Xplore C1 is truly the smallest tachograph in the world, and it is also an intelligent tachograph. The Bluetooth button flashes, and the dual indicator lights display the operation status. Gsensor and GPS have everything; Although the clarity is not as good as that of the DASH CAM, it is enough to record the driving picture for daily use; In terms of functions, it also has a high degree of expansion. The biggest highlight is that it supports the conversion and production of video editing filters, which makes it easy for users to make their own road blockbusters and share WeChat microblogs, meeting users' willingness to share, and more closely fitting users' needs in real life.

Of course, we have also found some phenomena such as the blurred screen in our use. With the continuous upgrading of Xplore C1, we believe that this can be solved perfectly. Finally, I wish you all can choose a favorite intelligent tachograph to make our self driving trip more interesting and happy, and I wish you all a happy New Year in 2016 in advance!