After learning about the parameters of Xplore C1+, I felt that it was very small (32mm * 32mm * 32mm), but I felt even more small "suffocating" when I got it in my hand. It is in this small cube that the fixed focus wide-angle lens, industrial CMOS sensor, 1080p full HD video processor, microphone and professional audio processing chip, gravity sensing G-Sensor, built-in 180mA lithium polymer battery, built-in GPS module, built-in Bluetooth WIFI are integrated, which can be described as "Sparrow is small but has five dirty things".

C1+supports 1080p full HD video recording, F1.8 aperture, video adjustment scene adaptation, one click capture of 10 seconds of wonderful video, Bluetooth flash shooting, WIFI connection, GPS positioning service and GPS track recording. It can quickly realize video cutting and splicing by matching the app, support a variety of popular video filters, and support sharing with mainstream social media platforms, making playing more diverse.

However, what attracted me about Xplore C1+as a DASH CAM is that APP+built-in GPS+one button flash.

C1+ The appearance design is exquisite, and the bracket has multiple functions. The white body is easy to get dirty. The adhesive base design is not easy to disassemble

The black box mainly contains a C1+host, a special bracket (with charging interface), a flash button, a vehicle power adapter, a 3.5m long power cord, and a hidden instruction manual.

The card reader and memory card (subject to the actual packaging) are provided along with the package, which is very practical and considerate.

C1+adopts an integrated body design, no separate buttons, a 32 * 32 * 32mm cube with a circular lens, which shows exquisite design between the square and the circle, and weighs only 36g. Although C1+does not design a screen, through the connection with the mobile phone APP, you can see the pictures in the camera from the mobile phone. The camera is 2 million real pixels, with 1/2.7 inch industrial image sensor and F1.8 aperture wide-angle lens. The actual effect needs to be verified.

C1+does not use the common solutions such as Anba, Lianyong or Quanzhi in the market. Instead, it uses Korean industrial sensors with quad core DSP, but the specific model is not found.

The C1+is designed with a TF card slot on the back and a prompt icon for the TF insertion direction to avoid damage caused by the memory card insertion. The maximum support is 32G. The two sides of the edge are the work indicator light and the power indicator light. The lower part is a large-area cooling hole. After all, so many components are integrated in a small volume, so the heat dissipation performance must be good to avoid a crash during use. The three small holes on the upper left of the cooling hole are Mic, and the single hole on the upper right is the RESET reset button.

C1+adopts anti-skid design on the upper, lower, left and right sides. There is a groove on the upper left and right sides, which is used for fixing with the support. The connection between C1+and bracket is snap type.

The power key is designed on the left side. It needs to be pressed for two seconds when starting up, and for three seconds when shutting down. In the recording state, a short press will take a picture and generate a short video. The key design feels good, and the feedback is obvious.

The bottom is also designed with a heat dissipation hole, which further increases the heat dissipation area.

The top is designed with contacts for charging by matching with the bracket.

The function of the bracket is not only to connect and fix the C1+host, but also to perform GPS positioning and charging. The support adopts a spherical rotatable locking mode, which is very convenient for adjusting the angle.

The charging interface does not use the common Mini USB B-type interface, but Micro USB interface.

The sign on the other side of the bracket base tells you that C1+has WIFI, GPS and Bluetooth functions.

The chassis is slightly disappointed with the support, because the adhesive method is adopted, and it can not be removed after being fixed, which is inconvenient for disassembly.

The design of the power adapter is very good, because two power sockets are reserved, one is 1A, and the other is 2.1A. This is a very practical and considerate design, which can not only supply power to C1+, but also charge the mobile phone.

The Bluetooth flash button is exquisite, larger than a dollar coin, and has an open key. It has been connected to the device when leaving the factory, and can be used directly with C1+.

If there is no sound from C1+and the indicator light does not flash after pressing the key, it means that recording has failed, and there may be a problem with the connection. Try entering the APP to set and re pair the connection.

Enjoy shooting Xplore C1+will record a 12 second short video of the first 4 seconds and the second 8 seconds of the Bluetooth snap at the moment when the flash is pressed

Simple combination installation

Align the C1+with the contact position of the bracket, and press it directly. The connection is firm and secure, and there is no need to worry about the problem of separation and falling, but it is also difficult to separate.

Actual installation renderings. The 3.5m length of the power cord is enough to meet the needs of hidden wires.

Enjoy tribal operation, simple settings, built-in functions, practical functions, to be improved, stability to be improved

The app used with C1+is called Enjoying Tribe, which is divided into three parts: Enjoying Tribe, Device and Personal Information. The sharing tribe is mainly used to view other people's sharing or share their own pictures and videos, including travel and emergencies. The content of the device page can be divided into four parts, one is the image after the APP successfully connects to C1+, one is the pictures and videos in the phone, the other is the pictures and videos on the C1+memory card, and the last is the video editing function.

Note: The APP version used in this article is 2.0.4, the C1+firmware version is 0.1.9, and the mobile phone is Samsung S5 (V5.0).

The connection between C1+and the mobile phone uses the hotspot provided by C1+for direct WiFi connection. The mobile phone directly plays the videos saved in the TF card, eliminating the operation of pulling the card, playing the videos smoothly, and the buffer loading time is not obvious when dragging back and forth. However, the WiFi connection of the current version is not stable, and there will be problems that the connection cannot be successful. You can try to connect from the WiFi connection page of the system or directly reset C1+before reconnecting.

Local pictures and videos are resources stored in mobile phones, which can be viewed offline without connecting to devices.

But the "File" page must be connected to C1+to view, including three folders: video, event and interest. In the video page are normally recorded videos. Events are used to save and lock videos in some special cases. Interests are used to save videos recorded by Bluetooth flash shots.

With its own image and video processing function, you can choose a variety of popular video filters to use together, which is convenient for friends who love sharing.

Other main parameters in the equipment setting function are G-sensor settings, only 1-4 are marked, but the sensitivity is not marked; The resolution can be set to 1080 or 720; In addition, the firmware is also upgraded here.

One of the most important settings in my information settings is the offline map. The built-in Baidu map allows you to easily view the places and routes you have visited. While playing the video, the position of the video and the driving track can be displayed synchronously.

The firmware upgrade can be downloaded normally at present, but the function of manual upgrade on the mobile phone APP end cannot be used at present, so it needs to be upgraded with TF card, and we hope that it can be corrected as soon as possible. The main purpose of video hard solution acceleration is to support 1080p smoothly, and it is better to keep it on by default.

The file service function is different from what I expected.

Because the content opened is the content inside the phone

The content is the same when viewed on the mobile phone. Personally, this function is useless and can be removed. The first is that you cannot view the content on the C1+memory card. The second is that if you want to share the content in your phone with others, you can share it directly through Bluetooth or WIFI.

The current version of the app is V2.0.4, and the mobile phone used is Galaxy S5 (Android 5.0). There is a Force Close problem during use. The stability of APP needs further improvement.

After C1+starts recording, four files will be generated. When triggered by the G-Sensor, the recording will be automatically saved to the EVENT folder, which is the event folder on the APP side of the phone. MANUAL is the video recorded with manual photographing during recording, The THUMB folder contains pictures taken manually during video recording.

It should be noted that the video format recorded by C1+is AVI. Whether it is an auto recorded driving record or a flash recorded video, the name contains longitude and latitude information after successful positioning. Personally, I always feel that the AVI format video is relatively large, and its display effect is not as good as that of mov or mp4 at the same resolution.

The videos in the flash folder are also in AVI format.

From the video coding information, C1+adopts the standard AVC H264 format, with a frame rate of 30fps and a code rate of 8102Kbps.

The local video, that is, the video recorded on the mobile phone, is in MP4 format,

The video is encoded as AVC avc1. The frame rate is about 28fps, less than 30fps, and the resolution is still 1920 * 1080.

We can confirm the second leakage of recorded video by recording the stopwatch. From the comparison of the videos recorded continuously before and after, it is found that the leakage is more than one second. From the time of video recording, we can also see that the end time of the previous video is one second away from the start time of the next video. You can avoid the problem of missing seconds by recording in advance.

It is worth mentioning that TF card compatibility is relatively good. Only 8G (three cards), 16G (two cards) and 32GTF (one card) are tried here. Sandisk, Kingmax, Kingston, and Samsung of major brands can recognize and use them normally, from Class6 to Class10. However, in the process of continuous use, each selected a continuous video recording for about 2 hours, and one or two of the recorded videos could not be read or played, or there was a problem with the captured pictures or video screens. It can be basically ruled out that the problem is the TF card. From the test of continuous video recording with 16G TF card for about 12 hours, the device did not crash, but the body was obviously hot.

Experiencing the function of sports camera, the picture quality in daytime is clearer, and the performance at night is acceptable

First, simply measure the horizontal angle of view, match an A4 paper and a pen, fix the camera position, find the position where the pen head just appears on both sides of the camera, record the distance between two points and the vertical distance between the camera and the paper, and then convert.

The distance between the bright spots is about 25.7 cm, the vertical height is 7 cm, and the horizontal angle is about 122.8 degrees. There must be errors. This is just a simple test, and the actual recorded picture shall prevail.

C1+can be used with a mobile power supply to experience a sports camera. At present, the actual recording time of C1+is only two or three minutes. The battery is not very powerful. I hope that subsequent firmware updates can extend the service time.

The color display is somewhat bright, but the definition is slightly poor, and the objects in the distance are slightly blurred.

Compare the video screenshots of other DASH CAM Qunhua S16.

The horizontal viewing angle is large, and you can see both sides of the front windshield and the front of the car. The distortion rate of roadside scenery is not very large.

C1+handles the lights well at night, without obvious glare. The front license plate can be clearly identified, but the license plate display on both sides is not very clear.

Contrast the effect of Qunhua S16

Attached are excerpts of some actual recorded videos. Please watch them in HD mode.

Talk about the advantages

one       Small size and beautiful appearance, without too much volume increase when matched with the bracket, which does not affect the line of sight

two       F1.8 aperture matches 200W pixels to meet the demand of recording 1080P video.

three       Easy to assemble and disassemble, easy to carry and use

four       It supports one button flash shooting function, WiFi direct connection and various playing methods

five       Support GPS positioning, track playback and track recording

six       APP has video clip function, which is convenient for sharing

Let's talk about some experiences in use:

one       The support adopts the adhesive chassis design instead of the suction cup design, which makes the removal of the support inconvenient

two       The white body is easy to get dirty

three       The endurance is improved. At present, the recording time of using C1+alone is too short.

four       Snap on design is not easy to separate the bracket from the host

five       Sound noise reduction effect to be improved

In general, in terms of playing methods, the sharing of tribal APP with C1+has brought different playing methods to the DASH CAM, making it easier to capture, record and share. If the endurance of C1+can be improved, coupled with the function of electronic dog, it will be very competitive in the market of similar tachographs.