The Miofive Dual Dash Cam is a two-camera system, upgrading the single-camera version that gained a 5-star award in our full Miofive 4K Dash Cam review; it's one of the best dash cams available. This means the dashcam can accurately measure an incident, how hard you’re driving the car, and if you go over any bump in the road. I also love how easy it is to retrieve video footage using your smartphone rather than messing around with microSD cards. It also take a while to make up one of my plate capture videos, even if the raw material are just like 20 seconds.

The field of view might not be wide enough for some, but the camera is better at picking out details such as number plates, which would otherwise appear smaller in a 165-degree or 180-degree camera. Design is largely the same in both the 4K and Dual model; the front camera is slim, modern and slick, and sits flush behind your rear view mirror.The timestamp that appears in the status line of the video will be converted to the local time based on the local time zone as determined by the dash camera based on its current location. This wouldn’t necessarily be a problem if the Miofive 4K UHD dash cam had removable storage, but, like the Road Angel Halo Ultra, it’s stuck with just 64GB of onboard space.

Digital Camera World is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Having a screen showing you what you see is a relatively redundant thing once you’re moving and could only serve as a distraction.

Yesterday, I created a video with my phone to show the movement of the front camera and how it looked with the alignment lines enabled in the MIOFIVE app. The camera comes with the usual length of USB cable and a spudger to lever this behind your car’s front pillar trim, but the supplied cigarette power adaptor only has one USB port – no spares. Since this uses an adhesive application, the MIOFIVE isn’t meant to be taken on and off the windshield, so you may want to look elsewhere if portability is of importance. The camera auto exposes for shadows, which means videos are bright, with details such as white clouds in the sky blown out. Without the fuse installation hardware, I can only take advantage of the Parking Monitor mode for monitoring while the ignition is off.

The only way to view and download videos from this camera is to connect to it via Wi-Fi and use Miofive’s smartphone app. Insurance companies and the police love these devices and so do motorists who value having proof of what happened.There will be a several second gap between the timestamp in the filename for the front and rear video files.

Read more about the condition New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging is applicable). The camera was powered by its 12V cable, and operated via both the unit itself and through the mobile app to compare the two experiences. Once fitted, you can forget it as it will turn itself on and off with the ignition key, though if you ‘hard wire’ it into the fuse-box it will act as a surveillance camera while you’re away from your car and start recording if it detects any knocks.The rear cam is half the resolution of the front but still captures impressive amounts of detail and clarity and essentially, offers a second angle of an incident, which could be critical if an incident were to occur. This design means it should be out of sight in most vehicles, where it’ll quietly get on with its job without distracting the driver. display that is perfectly adequate for navigating the camera’s simple menu system and checking the camera’s view. I'm suspending my MIOFIVE Dash Cam Dual review until MIOFIVE issues a firmware update for that issue. The GPS function also includes speed so that it can be seen if I need to show how fast I was going after an accident.