Qubo Dashcam Pro 4K Review: Must-Have Car Accessory?

A dashcam for vehicles is slowly turning into a mandatory accent in India. Not solely is it helpful to file video proof in case of an accident, but additionally to supply proof when it’s essential to declare insurance coverage or challenge a counter-complaint towards incorrect site visitors tickets. Some may additionally use a dashcam to file picturesque places on a highway journey. Whereas some sprint cameras can be found at an reasonably priced 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 additionally 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. Do you have to contemplate shopping for the Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K? Right here is our full assessment that will help you resolve.

Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K’s show can be utilized to look at the rearview video feed as properly (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. In order for you 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 kind of compact. Its extensive, rectangular form makes the black-coloured digicam appear like it is part of the automobile’s interiors (your expertise could differ), and it would not impede your view an excessive amount of. The ultra-wide digicam sensor is situated on the entrance of the system, whereas the again incorporates a 2.8-inch viewfinder, which can be to used to modify between numerous modes and settings. It’s not a touchscreen and to entry these modes, you’ve 4 devoted buttons on the underside of the digicam.

The left facet of the system has the ability and reset buttons whereas on the suitable facet, 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 system that’s used to hook up with the rear digicam. The field comprises 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 kind of cylindrical in form with one facet being flat. The correct nook has a 360-degree hinge cowl that permits you to modify 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 could 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 isn’t 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 subject of view even in low mild. The digicam can also be mentioned to make use of a digital noise discount algorithm to cut back noise. The non-obligatory rear digicam can solely file in 1080p. 

The Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K additionally helps Superior driver-assistance techniques, also called ADAS, which has been a current development within the vehicle business. The system makes use of built-in AI techniques and real-time video for numerous ADAS-related capabilities equivalent to Lane Departure Warning System, Ahead Automobile Movement Detection, and Ahead Collision Warning System. The Dashcam Professional 4K has built-in GPS to geotag the footage and likewise precisely view your driving route and pace.

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

You’ll be able to allow or disable the ADAS-related options on the system through the use of the buttons. Alternatively, you should utilize the Qubo Professional app. The app’s person interface is kind of easy and straightforward to make use of. You’ll be able to tweak numerous device-related settings throughout the app together with enabling or disabling audio, parking mode, jolt triggers, and many others. 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 number of the older footage, it’s best to switch it to your system with the assistance of the app.

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

The app additionally supplies the choice to allow TimeLapse recording, checking footage of varied occasions, equivalent to “jolts” or “journey begin/ stopped”. The system 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 a number of steps. First, it’s essential to scrub by means of the timeline and choose the beginning timestamp of the video. Subsequent, you’ll be able to 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 can be saved throughout the Gallery part of the app. To save lots of a video in your cellphone’s native gallery app, it’s essential to 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 kind of good as I may see and skim the quantity plates of a few vehicles forward of me. I’m referring to quantity plates particularly because the footage could be extremely helpful in case of an accident. Something past three meters is often not as detailed, however I’d not anticipate any higher from a automobile sprint digicam, to be sincere.

At one level through the assessment, we did discover the transferred footage freezing and skipping frames when saving it on the cellphone, nonetheless this was primarily because of us utilizing a slower Class 10 reminiscence card. After notifying Qubo about this challenge, the corporate beneficial (and shipped one for this assessment) 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 consumers of which particular microSD card they need to be shopping for.  

In case you want to use the digicam for recording movies in your highway journey, it does fairly an honest job with colors however the dynamic vary shouldn’t be nearly as good in harsh lighting situations. For such recordings, perhaps you could possibly 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 shocked me with fairly first rate general publicity. It does are likely to blow out the highlights, notably the surfaces the place the beam of the automobile headlights fall on, however the footage is kind of useable.