![]() ![]() The included cables are all nice and long for easy installation. The card had not been formatted, however, and contained several clips of test footage showing what we presume to be an Azdome employee at the company’s Chinese office. Our review sample came with a generous 128GB card, which is actually double the capacity mentioned in the instruction booklet. There are no buttons, other than one for turning Wi-Fi on and off, which sits on the end of the main camera and next to a microUSB port for power, a connection for the included rear-facing camera, and a microSD card slot. (Image credit: Alistair Charlton / Digital Camera World) A parking mode is available too, but requires a hardwiring kit sold separately. Lastly, there is a small selection of voice commands for manual control of video recording and taking photographs. This is used to adjust the camera’s settings, check its view in realtime, and transfer footage. Other features include integrated GPS for adding accurate location, direction and speed information to video recordings, and there’s also 5GHz Wi-Fi for communicating with the Azdome smartphone app. That 4K camera is paired with a rear-facing camera that records at Full HD (that’s 1080p, or 1920 x 1080) and while neither have true HDR they offer what the manufacturer calls WDR, or wide dynamic range, for improving how exposure is handled in difficult lighting conditions. We’ll come back to this in more detail in the Performance section. The big talking point here is of course 4K resolution, and quite how Azdome has managed to pack such a sensor into a dash cam costing $95 at the time of writing. ![]() The Azdome smartphone app is used to adjust the camera’s settings, check its view in realtime, and transfer footage (Image credit: Alistair Charlton / Digital Camera World) ![]()
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