XIAOMI 70mai Dash Cam Pro Review: An 1944P HD Car DVR Camera SONY IMX335 Sensor 140 Degree FOV Smart Dashcam

If you’re in the market for a cost-effective dash cam that helps you protect your car and warrants your safety by offering customizable mods, you might want to take a look at the XIAOMI 70mai Dash Cam Pro. It is an in-car DVR supported by 24-Hour Parking Surveillance and Advanced Driver-Assistance System (ADAS), featured 1944P (2.7K) resolution, Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) and Defog. It helps to lead a safer driving experience by monitoring vehicle when the driver’s in distance, warning potential danger and recording more details of emergency events in bad weather.

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Design

The new version of dashcam now comes with a display while the company makes it as compact as possible to hide it behind the rear view mirror. This allows maximum windscreen view without any blockage. 70mai Dash Cam Pro – an advanced DVR with a 2-inch LCD screen and a 5-megapixel camera, which shoots with a resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels and is able to control the parking process. With this camera, there is no need to use parking sensors.

Features

The recording resolution has bumped up from 1,080p to 1,944p and uses newer camera sensor from Sony, IMX335. The new lens has an optimized 140-degree wide-angle lens with f/1.8 aperture. It also supported WDR (Wide Dynamic Range) to capture more details both in darkness and strong light condition without exposing or blanked-out footages. The new Pro version has features that have worked well in previous models. It has been equipped with a car park monitoring system and the ADAS system. The system warns the driver about an accidental change of the lane, a feature particularly useful on highways and motorways. It will also alert the driver when the distance from the vehicle ahead is too small. It has been equipped with a voice assistant, you can tell it to take a picture or record a video that will be saved in a separate file. The camera creates its own Wi-Fi network and you can view saved videos or photos at any time. If they prove to be important evidence, they can be transferred to the smartphone’s memory. The recorder supports microSD memory cards with a capacity of 16 to 64 GB Class 10, if the memory is full, it overwrites the old recordings.