YI Dash Cam Full HD 1080P, Mini In-Car Camera 2.0 LCD Screen with 140° Wide Angle Built In G-Sensor, Loop Recording, Parking Monitoring Night Vision(Black)

 I came up the idea of buying a dash camera because one day a guy reverse into me and ran away even if I stepped out of the car and shouted. The camera itself is the right size for me and hassle-free to install with a lot of accessories provided. What impressed me the most is that the seller put a 16 gig MicroSD card in the box, so you can just open up and use it straight away. The video recording, I recognise, is not the very top range but well worth the money. The videos you recorded are split into multiple files by 1-minute length and each of them is 120 megabytes, so you can do the calculation of how many videos it can save simultaneously. When the storage is full, it will overwrite the oldest file while record new ones. The recording angle, I assume, is pretty the same as what you can see. It can record both lanes and part of the pavement. For the video quality at night, you can easily tell the reg of the car in front or even not so far from you. Software wise, it is really handy. The cam itself provides built-in WIFI features so that you can connect your phone to the cam and pull the videos straight back without connecting to your computer. Also, the app is like a community that you can share your own recording and I found some of them is masterpieces. In general, the cam does the job and beyond. For me, I will try the more premium 4K ones after this one.

 A fantastic product to buy!!! fantastic dash cam and amazing clear photos/video for the sizes very impressed first saw it on the gadget show and was amazed!

This Yi dashcam is priced at around what you'd pay for a Nextbase product from your local Halfords, which might seem expensive when Yi has made a name for itself by offering good value. This dash cam is still great value as it comes with features one or two steps up from an equivalent Nextbase. First, most importantly, the picture quality is very good, at every resolution and frame rate. The lens is also usefully very wide at 140 degrees, and there is a software feature installed to correct the distortion wide angles create on closer objects (e.g. the bowed look of the bonnet). The final images are great.I also have an older version of the Yi (YI 2.7" Screen Full HD 1080P60 165 Wide Angle Dashboard Camera, Car DVR Vehicle Dash Cam with G-Sensor, WDR, Loop Recording, Grey) which is a perfectly good device, and at under £40, brilliant value. I have installed that camera in my wife's car, replacing what turned out to be a very buggy and unreliable Philips unit that cost £100 (Philips ADR61BLX1 ADR 610 Full HD Car Driving Video Recorder Dashcam). Both Yis come with wifi built in, so you can more easily adjust settings and transfer files to your phone. The Philips, apart from just turning itself off at random times, is entirely manual in operation, and requires you to remove the camera (or card) to connect to a laptop to get the files off, and has a much narrow field of view compared with both Yis.This newer Yi comes with a few extras that the older one didn't, so although more expensive, you don't need to buy a memory card as it has a quality Toshiba card included, and it also comes with a handy tool to help you chase the cabling away. The newer Yi also has a two USB port socket, so even when powered up, you still have the ability to connect another USB cable to charge your phone for instance. With previous cameras, I had to buy a separate socket doubler, which was far bulkier.This Yi also comes with two types of windscreen attachment - brackets with a suction cup and a 3M adhesive strip. Personally, I prefer the cup as it gives you more options. I'd attached the Philips with adhesive (the only option) and although it was perfectly sturdy, I had problems reattaching it to a new windscreen, following a stonechip that cracked while being filled in.All in all, although not cheap, this Yi is great value. However, it's still very hard to argue with the older 1080p model, which is well worth considering if you don't want to stretch to this newer model.

A great starter dashcam that's towards the higher price range for a starter cam. Pretty much 'plug and play' straight out of the box, just need to put the included memory card in the dashcam and switch on. It will prompt you to format the card, which take seconds, and your good to go. You can easily change the resolution of the recordings to suit your needs in the easy to access and navigate menu. The are various other options to play with, my only gripe is that you cannot change the recording time of one minute per file. The are two mounts included, one uses a suction cup and the other uses a 3M sticking pad for permanent fixing to your window screen. I use the suction cup mount and have found that it is a strong hold and have only had to re attach it to my window screen once,this is to be expected when using this type of fixing. There is an official app that has a few other options and allows you to stream the recordings to your phone but it is not necessarily needed as you can easily transfer files to a Windows computer/laptop using a USB lead that supports file transferring or using a memory card adapter if your computer or laptop has a memory card slot. Not sure if you can easily transfer to a Mac as other reviewers have pointed out that Mac uses a different memory card format that is not compatible with this dashcam, at the time of writing this review. As far as the recording quality goes, I have noticed that there is a small amount of lens flare when the sun is shining directly on the lens but other than that the picture quality is great. A side note to keep in mind is that the camera records two files for each clip with one of them a highly compressed file for reviewing purposes, so when you stream directly to the app the quality of the recording is lower than that of the full file. Overall I would definitely recommend this cam if you want to pay less than £100 for a high res dashcam.