Episode Transcript
I'm rich Dumuro and this is Rich on Tech.
Speaker 2When you think about a dash cam, you think probably something you'd like to have, but it's a little too complicated in everyday life.
Unless you're an uber driver, unless you have an actual use for one, the average person isn't necessarily buying these.
But I really love the idea of a dash cam because it does watch everything that's happening.
It's kind of like your little eye and it gives you some more confidence on the road.
The major downside with most dash cams is that they're not very good.
The picture quality is not very clear, and getting the video off that dash cam, well, you'll pretty much never do that because it's kind of a pain.
Speaker 1Well, enter the Vava cam.
Speaker 2I've been testing this out for a couple of weeks now in my car, and I have fallen in love with it.
It is the simplest to use dashcam that is actually full.
Speaker 1Of a lot of great features.
Speaker 2So first off, when you set this thing up, the design of it is great.
There's no screen on it, so it's not distracting at all.
You have a suction mount to your windshield.
Then the actual dash cam is magnetically mounted to the suction mount.
Speaker 1So you can remove it.
Speaker 2You can swivel it three hundred and sixty degrees, and they even give you a little tool for running all the cables, a little pri tool so you can run the cables clean inside your car, and there's really not a tough part about setting it up.
There's also a GPS module that you stick onto your windshield so all of your videos get stamped with exactly where they were taken.
So once you have this thing set up, it basically becomes a DVR for your windshield, so it is recording continuous video when you turn on your car, from the moment you turn on your car to the moment you turn off your car, so anything that happens in front of your car, or if you have the camera swiveled inside your cabin of your car, it will capture what's going on.
And I have a thirty two gigabyte card in there that will give you about a four hour loop, So when it's done with that four hours, it'll just re record over the first part, kind of like a DVR does.
Speaker 1You can get a bigger card if you want.
The memory card is sold separately.
There's also a feature called a capture button.
Speaker 2So there's a little bluetooth button that you stick somewhere in your car.
You can put on your windsheet on your dashboard, and if you press that button, if you press it once, it'll take a snapshot, like a little picture of whatever you see outside.
You see something interesting, take a snapshot.
You want to record a twenty second clip, just press and hold the button for a few seconds and it will now start recording a clip.
And the difference between these clips and the DVR functionality is that those never go away, so those will stay on the memory card forever for safekeeping.
Speaker 1So if you're trying to capture.
Speaker 2Something that you want to remember, or if you just want to capture an event that you don't want deleted, you can go ahead and press the capture button.
Now, this is the best part about the Vava cam transferring the video.
Speaker 1You never have to.
Speaker 2Take an SD card out of this thing.
It connects to your phone wirelessly via a Wi Fi network.
So once you connect it, you can see a live view of what's on the camera, but you can also go back and comb through the footage.
You can do it minute by minute or every three minutes, and you can download any clip that you want right to your smartphone.
It's super fast, it's super easy, and it's the best implementation I've ever seen of a dash cam.
Speaker 1Because you'll actually download the footage.
So you took a cool drive.
Speaker 2There are some fog you want to get a little capture of that posted a Facebook.
Someone blew through a stop sign, You want to post that and make fun of them.
Speaker 1Sure you can do that.
And yes, the video is HD.
It's high quality.
Speaker 2You can make out faces and license plates as well.
So I would say my only downside to this camera is that I wish it recorded the front and the back at the same time, or even better yet three hundred and sixty degrees.
I think that'll come in a future update, but for right now, just having the front of your car is really nice as well.
Speaker 1One more feature I want to tell you about the G sensor.
Speaker 2There is a sensor inside so if your car is hit while it's parked, or if someone jostles your car even it will trigger a twenty second recording.
So that means that your car is basically protected even when it's parked.
So you can adjust the sensitivity of the G sensor.
That feature is not turned on by default, So if you get one of these, definitely make sure you remember to turn that on.
And the battery inside the device lasts about thirty days.
Keep in mind you do have to keep this thing powered by connecting it to what used to be called the cigarette lighter in your car, but now is just the DC adapter, So there is you know, continuous power through that, but then when your car is off, it is self powered through a battery inside.
Speaker 1There you have it.
Vava Dashcam really really like this thing.
Speaker 2You just feel confident being on the road when you have a dash cam.
It's it's just a nice feeling to have.
And this is the one that you will actually use.
It's not distracting, and I find that it's really the best one I've ever tried.
Speaker 1Normally it sells for one hundred and thirty dollars.
Speaker 2I talked to Vava, I said, look, can you get this price down to under one hundred dollars for listeners of rich On Tech And they did.
They caught it to under ninety six dollars.
So if you want the code for this Vava dashcam, you could order on Amazon.
Just go to rich On Tech dot tv and look for the Vava cam, have a great day.
