Garmin Dash Cam Live

After buying and using many other brands in the market for cars dash cams and being disappointed, I came across Garming dash cams and it really change my perspective on their build and quality of the product. Previously I had the Garmin dash cam w67 and it was one of my favorites, but since I love technology and I am a computer engineer; I needed to have this new model. I like all the features about this camera, the quality, the video resolution is perfect, it is fast and reliable. It has a seamless connection with the phone app and my favorite part of this is you can connect it to the internet and even see it via LTE remotely from the app. Once you connect it and know how to use it, you will not have any issues whatsoever with it.

Had a 57 stolen out of my vehicle a few months ago so I bought this live unit. The 57 was only fair to use and this unit is better. You need to pay for at least a $10 per month subscription and it is supposed to be connected to my home WiFi and vehicle WiFi but sitting outside my house and connected to WiFi it really doesn’t connect enough to send pics or video to my phone. It will however let you know its location. Garmin is doing better but this is still difficult to use and give feedback. It is on constant power and it needs to have an outside and inside camera so if your vehicle is broken into there is video of the incident. Come on Garmin you can do better!

I once had a dash cam that recorded to the cloud. All the time. 24/7 if you wanted it to. This dash cam does NOT record to the cloud!!!!!! If you are drving down the road, the video is getting recorded to a memory card. If at a later time you want to transfer a video file to the cloud, it is a slow and manual process. I guess I should’ve researched this a little deeper but paying for a cellular connection, I was assuming I was getting cloud recording. Also, the Garim Drive app is not very intuitive. Mostly regretting this purchase.