The DASH CAM is no stranger to people with cars. It can record the pictures of vehicles when they are driving, restore the process of events, and provide real and effective evidence for owners. With the development of the DASH CAM over the years, the picture has become clearer and the functions have become more and more abundant. Today's experience of this small ant intelligent rear-view mirror is another form of the DASH CAM, or the DASH CAM is just one of its functions, because it also has practical functions such as vehicle navigation, Bluetooth phone, music playing, etc. Let's take a closer look.

Appearance&Details

The pilot version of Xiaoyi intelligent rearview mirror has a lot of accessories. In addition to the host, there are also straps, car charging lines GPS receiver module, TF memory card, card holder, data flow SIM card and manual. From the accessories, we can see that this rearview mirror needs to connect to the network through the SIM card. It can turn on the wifi hotspot to provide traffic support for mobile phones, but it does not support wifi connection (high configuration can). This involves a problem of traffic charges. Let's talk about it at the end.

The pilot version of the little ant rearview mirror is about 31cm long and can cover the original rearview mirrors of all passenger cars on the market. The wide mirror can bring more vision without affecting driving safety. The screen with a resolution of 1280 * 480 is hidden in the rearview mirror. The size is 6.86 inches, which is larger than most mobile phone screens on the market.

All interfaces have been designed to the top of the rear-view mirror, and the distribution is reasonable. The small ant rear-view mirror has reserved an AV-IN interface, which allows you to separately purchase the rear camera to achieve the functions of front and rear dual camera and reversing image.

Look at the back of the rear-view mirror. The brushed plastic shell looks very textured. There are regular heat dissipation holes distributed at the top and bottom. The installation diagram of SIM card and TF card is pasted in the middle, which is more intimate; There is a long silicone anti-skid pad in the contact area with the original rear-view mirror, which can not only reduce vibration, but also protect the original rear-view mirror from wear.

The camera parameters of Little Ant's rearview mirror are: resolution 200w pixels, aperture F2.0, visual angle 140 degrees, with infrared filters. The specific shooting effect will be shown when the camera is measured on the road behind. As a professional manufacturer of camera related products, I believe its performance is satisfactory.

The GPS receiver module is not built in the rear view mirror, but is independent through the lead wire, which should obtain more stable GPS positioning.

Take a look at the car charging line. My first impression of it is that it is not small and the workmanship is good. But I soon felt that something was wrong, and there was no USB interface? In the case that many passenger cars have only one charging port and no USB interface is equipped, Xiao Ant's charging line does not seem to keep pace with the times. Many friends will use driving time to charge their mobile phones. Especially when driving far away, it is indispensable to use car charging. In addition, if the owner wants to replace the third-party dual port car charging accessories, We also need to buy an additional miniUSB cable, because the car charging cable matched with Xiaoyi is integrated, so we are sorry about the power supply, and hope that this can be optimized in the future.

Finally, let's take a picture of the fully plugged interface.

Loading&wiring

The installation of Xiaoyi intelligent rearview mirror pilot version is relatively simple. Insert the TF card and SIM card into the host in the direction prompted, and then fix Xiaoyi in front of the original rearview mirror with straps.

Insert the GPS lead and charging line into the rear-view mirror, bury the wire right into the edge of the interior ceiling, then the right A-pillar interior trim panel, and finally return to the cigarette lighter interface of the center console from the bottom of the storage box in front of the co driver.

Because the interior trim panel and pillar frame of the vehicle are mostly made of soft materials, it is easy to embed the wire. The GPS module can be pasted on the edge of the dashboard or the upper and lower corners on the right side of the front windshield. These two positions can receive GPS signals well; Xiaoyi's car charging line is more than 4 meters long, which is sufficient for family cars, SUVs and other models. For the sake of the beauty of the car, the excess wire is bound and fixed with binding tape, and it is better to be buried in the interior trim panel.

Application&Experience

The whole installation process takes about 10 minutes. Friends who have no installation experience in the past can easily complete it as long as they carefully read the instructions. The following is the use experience. Xiaoyi Smart rearview mirror pilot version uses MediaTek's 4-core A7 processor, with a main frequency of 1.3GHz, and is equipped with YunOS system. It takes about 30 seconds from power on to system loading, which is only at a moderate speed.

The homepage with modular design has a good visual effect and is easy to use. The touch screen operation is also very smooth, and there is no jam. The pilot version of Xiaoyi's intelligent rear-view mirror mainly includes "driving record", "car navigation", "shrimp music", "Himalayan FM", "weather", "Bluetooth phone", "UC browser", etc. It is quite complete for vehicles. Let's take a look at Xiaoyi's "driving record" function first.

There are not many settings provided by Xiaoyi. The resolution, recording and collision level are basically the default settings. Xiaoyi, a 200w pixel camera, has a 140 degree wide angle, and the video width covers three lanes. When the light conditions are good in the daytime, the picture looks good, and the license plate number of the edge vehicles can be identified (below).

Under the positive and negative light conditions, the ants did not darken the whole picture due to the strong sunlight, but the noise was obvious, and the license plate of the vehicle in front was blurred (below).

However, under the light conditions at night, only the license plates of the vehicles that are still stopped and close to each other can be seen clearly, which indicates that the camera of Xiaoyi Smart Rear View Mirror Pilot has a general noise control ability. However, in other types of recorders, the overall night picture is not red, and the picture is restored more realistically.

From the above screenshot, we can see that the "driving record" function of Xiaoyi Smart Rear View Mirror Pilot is only available, and there are not many highlights.

I like Xiaoyi's "car navigation" function very much. Using the large 6.86 inch screen of the rearview mirror, I can go anywhere accurately. With the help of the independent GPS module, the vehicle positioning is also very accurate.

It can be seen from the GPS star search map that the ants do not support the satellites of Beidou and Gronaz, but 10 GPS satellite signals are enough. One thing to complain about here is that navigation and real-time road conditions require a large amount of map data. If you rely solely on the network, the traffic consumption will be huge. If you want to install offline maps, you need to take out the TF card to connect to the computer to download data, because the rear-view mirror itself does not support connecting to WIFI, which is troublesome in terms of operation.

Xiaoyi intelligent rearview mirror navigation version has two built-in music and book listening applications, "Xiami Music" and "Himalaya". If you don't consider the traffic, you can listen to what you really want, but traffic first needs to ensure the normal use of navigation, so you should save some use. At present, the versions of these two applications do not support user login, that is, If you are a Himalayan member or have an account, you need to search the novels you like to listen to, and manually locate the chapters you have heard. It is also troublesome, but this problem can be solved by changing the later versions.

In addition, the functions of "on-board Bluetooth", "cloud electronic dog", "weather", "FM transmission" and so on are also very practical. From the perspective of these built-in applications, the positioning of the pilot version of Xiaoyi intelligent rear-view mirror is quite clear - from a practical point of view. The above functions are just the appearance of the ants. What I want to say is "voice control". I give 90 points to the "voice control" function of the ants. 10 points are deducted from some words that can't be recognized. The music volume in the car is too loud, which affects the recognition of the ants. In addition, the "voice control" function of the ants is very useful. Open various applications from the bottom, such as navigation, I can directly tell it where I am going. The ant will open the Gaode and search for the destination. For multiple similar destinations, it will give you options. It is very practical and does not need to operate!

Almost all built-in applications can be controlled by voice to maximize driving safety. Even the stocks you always care about can be found and displayed by Xiaoant, making full use of the advantages of the large screen.

As an intelligent device, Xiaoant supports APP to download the recording content of the rearview mirror. In the APP, you can see the driving track, driving records, statistics of various data, vehicle parking position and other information, which is very easy to use.

Traffic&tariff

There are two versions of Xiaoyi Smart rearview mirror pilot version. The low configuration needs to be used with a SIM card and cannot connect to mobile phone WIFI, while the high configuration version can connect to mobile phone WIFI and share traffic. I personally suggest you choose the high configuration version to save worry. What about the traffic charge of the SIM card? Let's check the details of the charge of the rearview mirror public account.

As can be seen from the above figure, the annual package of 300M traffic per month is 106 yuan, which is suitable for car owners with short vehicle trips and low demand for application use. For friends with a large demand for network use, it is undoubtedly more suitable to choose 1G traffic, which costs 306 yuan in total. In fact, this package is slightly more expensive than some super value traffic cards on the market, At present, Xiaoant does not support users to change their SIM cards by themselves. We look forward to the introduction of new policies or more affordable packages in the future.

Summary

I personally love and hate this little ant rearview mirror pilot version. The advantages are good workmanship, comprehensive functions, and voice control. The disadvantages are that the car charging line is not equipped with a USB power supply port, there is a delay in capturing, and there is no automatic screen off function. However, considering that the product price is less than 500 yuan, Xiaoyi intelligent rear-view mirror is still worth choosing.

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