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

A dashcam for vehicles is slowly changing into a needed accent in India. Not solely is it helpful to report video proof in case of an accident, but additionally to supply proof when you want to declare insurance coverage or problem a counter-complaint towards incorrect site visitors tickets. Some may also use a dashcam to report picturesque places on a highway 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 additionally comes with a number of useful options. The corporate despatched us its twin digital camera 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 evaluation that can assist you determine.

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 accessible in India at Rs. 9,990, which incorporates simply the front-facing digital camera. If you would like the rear digital camera bundle, then the combo together with its equipment will price you Rs. 12,990.

Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K design

The Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K is kind of compact. Its vast, rectangular form makes the black-coloured digital camera appear to be it is part of the automobile’s interiors (your expertise might differ), and it does not hinder your view an excessive amount of. The ultra-wide digital camera sensor is positioned on the entrance of the gadget, whereas the again incorporates a 2.8-inch viewfinder, which will also be to used to modify between varied modes and settings. It isn’t a touchscreen and to entry these modes, you have got 4 devoted buttons on the underside of the digital camera.

The left aspect of the gadget has the ability and reset buttons whereas on the appropriate aspect, you have got a mini-USB port for connecting the entrance digital camera 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 digital camera. The field accommodates a 12V energy adapter, lengthy cables for the entrance and rear cameras, suction mount, a pry instrument, and a guaranty card. 

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

The Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K might be paired with a 1080p rear digital camera

Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K options

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

The Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K additionally helps Superior driver-assistance methods, often known as ADAS, which has been a current pattern within the vehicle trade. The gadget makes use of built-in AI methods and real-time video for varied ADAS-related capabilities akin 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 varied options

You may allow or disable the ADAS-related options on the gadget by utilizing the buttons. Alternatively, you should utilize the Qubo Professional app. The app’s person interface is kind of easy and simple to make use of. You may tweak varied 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 pictures and movies from the digital camera to your cellphone.

The Qubo Dashcam Professional 4K helps any Class 10 SD card as much as 1TB. If the storage is full, it would delete older footage and substitute it with the dwell feed. In case you wish 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 appropriate aspect for storing video recordings

The app additionally gives the choice to allow TimeLapse recording, checking footage of varied occasions, akin to “jolts” or “journey begin/ stopped”. The gadget marks an occasion as a “jolt” at any time when the automobile goes on a giant 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 digital camera to the cellphone requires a couple of steps. First, you want to scrub by way of the timeline and choose the beginning timestamp of the video. Subsequent, you may select to screen-record the precise part you want to save or obtain it immediately. The Qubo Professional app will allow you to obtain one minute movies for as much as three minutes, which will probably be saved throughout the Gallery part of the app. To save lots of a video in your cellphone’s native gallery app, you want to choose the movies you wish 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 digital camera is kind of good as I might see and browse the quantity plates of a few vehicles forward of me. I’m referring to quantity plates particularly because the footage might be extremely helpful in case of an accident. Something past three meters is normally not as detailed, however I’d not count on any higher from a automobile sprint digital camera, 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 attributable to us utilizing a slower Class 10 reminiscence card. After notifying Qubo about this problem, the corporate really useful (and shipped one for this evaluation) a UHS-III (U3) Class 10 reminiscence card, which did remedy the problem. Bundling a microSD card together with the dashcam ought to have been an possibility 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 digital camera for recording movies in your highway journey, it does fairly an honest job with colors however the dynamic vary is just not pretty much as good in harsh lighting circumstances. For such recordings, possibly you could possibly depend on one thing like a GoPro or your cellphone’s digital camera.

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