Garmin introduced Wednesday that one among PCWorld’s favourite line of sprint cams has been upgraded with cellphone and cloud connectivity. The new sprint cams, which can be found instantly through garmin.com, embody the 1080p Dash Cam Mini 2, the 1080p Dash Cam 47, the 1440p Dash Cam 57, and the 1440p, wide-field-of-view 67W.
All besides the appropriately named, key-fob-sized Mini 2 function GPS and a two-inch coloration show. The Mini 2 is priced at $130, and the top-end 67W at $260.
Due to the newfound connectivity, there’s now a parking mode (wake on disturbances to seize video), plus a stay view in your cellphone courtesy of the Garmin Drive app. The app might also be used to dump and examine captures, in addition to configure settings.
Videos are uploaded for safekeeping to Garmin’s Vault storage service, the place they’ll reside for at the very least 24 hours, with an choice (through account and subscription, in fact) for storage for as much as 30 days. All 4 fashions retailer video on removeable SD playing cards for simple swapping and archiving.
Garmin’s sprint cams help voice management and supply quite a lot of bad-driver—ahem, driver security options, comparable to ahead collision and lane departure alerts, in addition to pace digital camera warnings.
To our thoughts, Garmin’s new fashions are as full-featured as any forward-only sprint cams in the marketplace. We hope the subsequent iteration will add choices for inside and rear view cameras. To study extra go to Garmin’s web site.
