Q800PRO

Thinkware is a very well known dash camera and for a good reason. They are one of the most reliable, innovative brands for dashcams available. This one in particular is no exception. The camera quality is superb, the installation was simple and it works very well.I would definitely recommend this model over and over.

Thinkware design this dash camera perfect fit my vehicle. Sadly, the application needs more improvement

Someone turned down the wrong side of a divided highway and was coming at me head on (he missed) and this camera failed to record it.First file of the incident (2019_12_22_18_42_19_F) starts at 6:42:19 PM and records for 15 seconds ending at 6:42:34 PM. Near the end of this video you can see the car make the turn and start coming down my side of the road.The second file of the incident (2019_12_22_18_42_43_F) starts at 6:42:43 PM and has a duration of 1 min. There's a 9 second gap of nothing being recorded between the two. That 9 second gap SHOULD HAVE RECORDED THE ON COMING CAR.If you already own this POS take a look at your files. Look for a jump in the last 2 digits. The seconds portion of the time stamp. If you see a jump then check your video. Make sure you are getting complete recordings.If you are thinking of buying this then don't You are buying a dashcam for the insurance it offers recording incidents. That's not guaranteed with this camera. You don't want a 9 second gap in your video evidence.

Get the filter to cut down on sun glare - worth it!

I am not an expert on dashcams, so I cannot compare this to other products from different companies, or even to earlier products from Thinkware. I can, however, speak to my impressions as an average non-enthusiast user. In addition to the main dashcam, I also bought the installation kit and the polarizing filter. The installation had challenges, but none of them were due to this product. It was just difficult to find fuses in my car's fuse box that both were switched and unswitched, and that were located where a fuse tap would fit. I am still working on that, and do not yet have parking mode working. Again, though, that is an installation problem. I am asking a friend who knows more about wiring to help soon and I expect to get that sorted out. Other than that, the installation went well. In operation, it is about as expected. As with the first one I had, the features and settings are fiddly and unintuitive. I looked through the manuals of about half a dozen models before buying this one, and they all seem to have cumbersome UI issues... this one is no exception. Still, I have no plans to regularly collect the video. I just want to have it record in case I ever need to prove what happened in a traffic incident, so I don't really care that much. I do wish I could turn on the flashing blue light that says it's not connected to the Internet. I don't need it connected to the Internet when I drive, and I also don't need it flashing at me to tell me so. It seems it should be easy to turn that off in settings, but Thinkware didn't give me that option.The image quality seems pretty good. The last dashcam I had was HD (1280x1024) and this one is quite a bit higher resolution at QHD (2560x1440). The video on this one is a bit clearer (I compared a couple of clips), but they were both pretty good. I took a random daylight clip from the SD card and tried to see a license plate on vehicles in front of me and passing me in the other direction. In front was no problem. It was less clear on vehicles passing, but I could make them out and that's all that matters. The angle of view seems about right to me; I can clearly see vehicles at cross streets and such, so it should capture the surroundings is something happens. I haven't yet driven it at night to see how those videos look. It's light here from about 5am to 9pm in the summer, and I haven't happened to have been driving outside of those hours yet. I'll find out in the winter, when the days get really short.Overall, I'm quite happy with the product. It is nice and small and it looks elegantly designed, so it looks okay in my car. It took a 128K microSD card, so I have lots of space to record in. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this to someone else, though I also wouldn't suggest that other high-end products wouldn't probably do just as well.

Where, oh where do I start?I have two of these cameras. The 800 (urchased here - obviously) and a 1000, purchased directly from the manufacturer/seller.The cameras are decent. They produce smooth video and night vision isn't too terrible. So, props for that.Now, the companion software? To call it a "joke" would be offensive to a good joke. The cameras are marketed as cloud capable/cloud enabled. Yes, you have to give the camera access to a WiFi connection, be it a hot spot or your vehicle's built-in hot spot (if you have one). There is no built-in cellular capability. But I knew this, so no problem there.Setting up the camera through the app could be likened to pulling teeth... healthy ones, at that. You have to log into the camera via its WiFi connection. Then, you have to connect the camera to your device while your device is in hot spot mode. Then, you have to hope the freaking thing took the settings, and you don't know whether the camera was updated/set up for cloud access properly, more-so because they don't seem to want to register themselves to your account that you have to sign up for on the manufacturer's website.It took me 5 times to get it to register the U800 and call home to the manufacturer. I still can't get the 1000 to call home/link itself to my accountCliff notes:Camera(s) are OK.The software/cloud services are absolutely worthless. Bad enough that I'm not purchasing another one of these cameras from this manufacturer.

So far the dash cam has been working flawlessly I'm really liking the buffered parking mode. Records 10 seconds before an event and 20 seconds after. I hardwired it and within 1 minute of shutting the car off it switches from continuous recording to parking mode automatically.

Great product. I had it installed by BestBuy. Looks great. It is directly wired into my rear view mirror, so no cords hanging. Video is very clear even at night. Wouldn’t purchase anything else!

Does a great job, when I see some crazy stuff on the road, it's nice that I have a 10 second buffer to capture it all when I hit the manual record button.My one complaint is that she is super wordy when the truck starts up, she blabs on and on for a solid 20 seconds. All you can do is mute her completely, but then you don't know if any events happened while in parking mode.

Good camera

So Good. It stopped working after 5 months I can’t find seller customer service. If they rectify the problem I will come back and rewrite this review thanks.The dash cam was returned through Amazon and I was reimbursed the $$. Thanks AmazonI was happy with the camera while it was working decent quality camera.

This is a well-made high-quality product. I have been using this dashcam for the past few months. The video quality is excellent and you can read the license plates and other small texts (such as business addresses from far away. Well worth getting it with the both front and back camera combination. The only thing I would suggest is to buy a battery backup for the camera to operate longer when parked. I have not tried the radar module.

Great quality camera, lots of option for recording. Motion, continues, etc. Connects via wi-fi or hot spot. Hot spot is needed if you want the alerts and the camera needs to be live view. Having used the Hot spot yet but other wise great camera. When car start camera advised if there was any motion or records during parking mode. Have had it a week and would get Thinkware Camera again.