Arpha A14 4K Voice Control Dash Cam Review
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If you want an easy to use, easy to set up well featured 4k dashcam then this might be for you.
This dashcam can give full 4K video – 3840x2160P@25fps - and features app and voice control. You can connect to the camera over wifi to configure and control it as well as to download video and photos. It has onboard GPS as well as a high quality screen and two 24-hour parking modes. There is not much it won’t do.
In the box, you get the camera, a car power adapter with a 12ft cable, 2 sticky mounts, 2 electrostatic mounting sheets, 5 cable clips, a mounting tool, and a user guide. It’s all there, everything you need is included. The build quality all seems fine to me with the packaging and contents all having an upmarket feel to them.
The f1.8 camera has a wider than average 170-degree angle of view and gives a clear, detailed and sharp WDR image with a range of recording options available: 3840 x 2160@25fps, 2560 x 1440@30fps, and 1920 x 1080@30fps. I have to say that the video quality at any selected size even in low light is first class, one of the best yet for me on any dashcam, but I keep mine set to 4K@25fps for maximum number plate reading quality. The only downside is that MP4 video files even with H264 compression can be very large and even a 64GB card will soon fill up, so install the largest size card that you can. When it receives power the cameras are designed to record automatically and continuously in short segments overwriting the oldest when the card is full, the tiny internal Super Capacitor battery will keep recording for a few seconds after the power goes off, handy in case the power is cut during a crash. When bumps or sharp braking is detected the camera G-Sensor will flag the current segment and not overwrite it in case an incident has taken place. This can mean that the card will fill up over time. I would advise buying the largest capacity Class 10 or better card – maximum size is 256Gb – and formatting it regularly to delete all the current segments, marked and unmarked.
Fixing the camera discreetly behind the mirror on my Toyota Aygo was easy enough and the cable was easily long enough. A car cigar lighter cable is provided but, with most modern cars having USB ports, any suitably long USB-C cable should work.
The dashcam is controlled and configured using the ARPHA VISION app connected to a Wifi hotspot generated by the camera. You can select to operate in the various recording modes listed above and even watch live streaming video. Various other options can be set including the audio recording, loop recording time, etc. Recordings can also be viewed on the app or downloaded.
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