Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K Assessment: Should-Have Automotive Accent?

A dashcam for vehicles is slowly turning into a vital accent in India. Not solely is it helpful to document video proof in case of an accident, but in addition to supply proof when you should declare insurance coverage or subject a counter-complaint towards incorrect site visitors tickets. Some may also use a dashcam to document picturesque areas on a street journey. Whereas some sprint cameras can be found at an inexpensive value, they have a tendency to compromise on video high quality and options. Qubo, a Hero Group firm, has launched its Dashcam Professional 4K in India as a premium providing underneath Rs. 10,000.

The Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K not solely claims to supply high-quality video footage but in addition comes with a number of helpful options. The corporate despatched us its twin digicam mannequin, which options each the entrance and rear cameras together with different equipment. Must you think about shopping for the Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K? Right here is our full evaluation that can assist you resolve.

Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K’s show can be utilized to look at the rearview video feed as effectively (dual-cam bundle)

Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K value in India

The Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K is offered in India at Rs. 9,990, which incorporates simply the front-facing digicam. If you need the rear digicam bundle, then the combo together with its equipment will value you Rs. 12,990.

Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K design

The Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K is sort of compact. Its extensive, rectangular form makes the black-coloured digicam appear to be it is part of the automobile’s interiors (your expertise could range), and it would not hinder your view an excessive amount of. The ultra-wide digicam sensor is situated on the entrance of the gadget, whereas the again encompasses a 2.8-inch viewfinder, which may also be to used to modify between varied modes and settings. It isn’t a touchscreen and to entry these modes, you’ve 4 devoted buttons on the underside of the digicam.

The left aspect of the gadget has the facility and reset buttons whereas on the precise aspect, you’ve a mini-USB port for connecting the entrance digicam to the 12V charging socket. Subsequent to the connector port is a microSD card slot. There’s a micro-USB port on the highest of the gadget that’s used to connect with the rear digicam. The field incorporates a 12V energy adapter, lengthy cables for the entrance and rear cameras, suction mount, a pry device, and a guaranty card. 

The rear digicam is type of cylindrical in form with one aspect being flat. The correct nook has a 360-degree hinge cowl that permits you to regulate the digicam angle whereas mounting it on the automobile’s floor. Not like the entrance digicam, the rear digicam doesn’t require a suction mount because it attaches by way of double-sided adhesive tape.

The Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K will be paired with a 1080p rear digicam

 

Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K options

Because the identify suggests, the Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K delivers a 4K decision video feed. Nevertheless, it’s not true 4K because the 8-megapixel Sony IMX415 sensor is definitely recording in 1080p and upscaling it to 4K. The entrance digicam has an f/1.8 aperture which claims to assist seize high-quality movies with a 140-degree area of view even in low gentle. The digicam can also be mentioned to make use of a digital noise discount algorithm to scale back noise. The non-compulsory rear digicam can solely document in 1080p. 

The Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K additionally helps Superior driver-assistance programs, also referred to as ADAS, which has been a current development within the vehicle trade. The gadget makes use of built-in AI programs and real-time video for varied ADAS-related capabilities resembling Lane Departure Warning System, Ahead Car Movement Detection, and Ahead Collision Warning System. The Dashcam Professional 4K has built-in GPS to geotag the footage and in addition precisely view your driving route and pace.

The Qubo Professional app has a number of tabs to entry and management varied options

 

You’ll be able to allow or disable the ADAS-related options on the gadget through the use of the buttons. Alternatively, you need to use the Qubo Professional app. The app’s person interface is sort of easy and straightforward to make use of. You’ll be able to tweak varied device-related settings inside the app together with enabling or disabling audio, parking mode, jolt triggers, and so on. Putting in the app is a should as it’s a extra handy medium for transferring photographs and movies from the digicam to your cellphone.

The Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K helps any Class 10 SD card as much as 1TB. If the storage is full, it’s going to delete older footage and change it with the stay feed. In case you need to save a few of the older footage, it’s best to switch it to your gadget with the assistance of the app.

Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K has a microSD card slot on the precise aspect for storing video recordings

 

The app additionally supplies the choice to allow TimeLapse recording, checking footage of varied occasions, resembling “jolts” or “trip begin/ stopped”. The gadget marks an occasion as a “jolt” at any time when the automobile goes on an enormous bump or pothole at a significantly excessive pace. The dashcam, whereas recording the occasion, informs the person with a tone. It additionally notifies the person when the automobile breaches a set pace restrict.

Transferring recorded footage from the digicam to the cellphone requires just a few steps. First, you should scrub by the timeline and choose the beginning timestamp of the video. Subsequent, you possibly can select to screen-record the precise part you want to save or obtain it right away. The Qubo Professional app will allow you to obtain one minute movies for as much as three minutes, which might be saved inside the Gallery part of the app. To save lots of a video in your cellphone’s native gallery app, you should choose the movies you need to save and faucet on the share icon on the backside to obtain them.

Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K efficiency

Daylight video efficiency of the Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K’s entrance digicam is sort of good as I may see and browse the quantity plates of a few vehicles forward of me. I’m referring to quantity plates particularly because the footage will be extremely helpful in case of an accident. Something past three meters is often not as detailed, however I might not anticipate any higher from a automobile sprint digicam, to be trustworthy.

At one level throughout the evaluation, we did discover the transferred footage freezing and skipping frames when saving it on the cellphone, nonetheless this was primarily as a result of us utilizing a slower Class 10 reminiscence card. After notifying Qubo about this subject, the corporate really useful (and shipped one for this evaluation) a UHS-III (U3) Class 10 reminiscence card, which did resolve the difficulty. Bundling a microSD card together with the dashcam ought to have been an choice for my part, or least have a disclaimer on the web site to alert patrons of which particular microSD card they need to be shopping for.  

In case you want to use the digicam for recording movies in your street journey, it does fairly a good job with colors however the dynamic vary shouldn’t be nearly as good in harsh lighting circumstances. For such recordings, perhaps you possibly can depend on one thing like a GoPro or your cellphone’s digicam.

Among the older sprint cameras that I’ve used have struggled with in low-light conditions. The Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K stunned me with fairly respectable general publicity. It does are likely to blow out the highlights, significantly the surfaces the place the beam of the automobile headlights fall on, however the footage is sort of useable.

ADAS-related options labored fairly effectively. The digicam immediately prompted me with an audio alert when the car in entrance of me or a pedestrian was in shut vary of my automobile. The function, though helpful from a security perspective, will be fairly annoying when driving by metropolis site visitors. I selected to disable it after a few journeys.

The rear digicam can document solely 1080p decision movies. I did discover that by default, this digicam mirrors the footage it data, whatever the orientation. The general video high quality is clearly inferior to the entrance digicam however is definitely usable to see the quantity plate or particulars of the automobile proper behind yours.

The post-sales service of Qubo appeared fairly useful too. I referred to as the helpline a few instances for product-related queries, together with one the place I wished to know the options and the service consultant, with out figuring out who I used to be, managed to reply all my queries fairly satisfactorily. Qubo additionally says that it’ll change the product if the person experiences any manufacturing-related points inside the guarantee interval.

Verdict

The Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K will be thought of if you’re looking out for a superb dashcam which gives many options. The entrance digicam captures ultra-wide footage with respectable particulars. The design too is sort of neat and also you additionally get all of the required equipment within the field. The one draw back is that the gadget is barely costlier than a few of the options out there on-line.

Value: Rs. 12,990 (entrance + rear cameras)

Professionals

Compact design Function-rich Huge area of view of the entrance and rear digicam Full vary of equipment bundled with the digicam Buyer care service

Cons

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