![]() Dash Cam Auto Sync enables you to control and play back footage from up to four cameras on your smartphone using the Garmin Drive app.Automatically records and saves footage of incidents.Extra-wide 180-degree field of view captures crisp 1440p footage and Garmin Clarity HDR provides increased detail in low-light situations.It’s much easier to eject the microSD card and plug it into a laptop or computer.Garmin Dash Cam 66W 1440p Dash Cam with 180-degree Field of ViewĬompact, discreet dash cam with an extra-wide view in 1440p HD Garmin’s offering is clunky to navigate, while the Nextbase app can be equally as fiddly, and despite advances in dual 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi, camera connection for file transfer is fairly unpredictable and often unstable. However, perhaps the most important element is the provided smartphone app, which both Nextbase and Garmin haven’t quite perfected. On top of this, the addition of What3Words geolocation speeds up the process of locating a stricken vehicle.Ĭontrolling the camera via Alexa “Skills” is also neat and it goes beyond simple camera functionality by also controlling other Alexa-enabled devices in the vehicle. Here, the camera can alert emergency or breakdown services, even in areas where your tethered smartphone can’t reach mobile signal or Wi-Fi. Nextbase, on the other hand, does away with most of the irritating lane departure warnings et al and sticks with advances in its Emergency SOS suite of features. However, the addition of voice control is good and by uttering the words “Okay Garmin”, you can instruct the camera to save important footage or take a picture, for example. The usefulness of these features is questionable, with most of these alerts coming in the form of indecipherable bleeps. It also warns of upcoming speed and red light cameras. In this respect, Garmin adds forward collision warning, lane departure warning, and alerts you if the vehicle in front sets off and you don’t. Throwing in a bunch of driving assistance features and additional emergency technology seem to be the flavour of the year. We’ve said it before, but dash cams are now so good at automatically capturing crisp footage in the case of an accident that manufacturers are looking for new ways to attract customers. ![]() (Image credit: Garmin) Nextbase 622GW vs Garmin 66W T3: features In our humble opinion, the Nextbase 622GW is the one to plump for if you want absolutely pin sharp imagery on all conditions (including during low light or night driving), but then you do pay extra for the privilege. However, a wider 180-degree lens (as opposed to the 140-degrees on the Nextbase) captures far more out of the front windscreen and even to the left and right of the vehicle. The built-in polarising filter is also fantastic for knocking out glare from the sky and other windscreens.Īlthough Garmin advertises a full 1440p resolution, we found the footage a little grainy at this res, but that’s only when you really punch in on the details. It is much the same with the Nextbase 622GW, but we’d go so far to say that the footage from the Nextbase is superior, purely because the onboard stabilisation does an awesome job of smoothing out footage. HDR helps to boost image quality when light conditions vary, pulling out details on shadowed areas without over-exposing lighter parts of the frame. A higher frame rate will produce smoother video and should help improve the clarity of individual frames - such as when trying to read the number plate of a vehicle that caused a collision. It is annoying that users can’t have a combination of these to create 1440p with HDR at 60 fps, so you have to pick which you think will produce the best video for your situation. In our initial review of the Garmin 66W, we pointed out that it is a little frustrating that the default option for video is 1080p Full HD at 60 frames per second, while other options include 1440p with HDR at 30 frames per second, 1080p with HDR at 30 fps, and 720p with HDR at 30 fps. (Image credit: Nextbase) Nextbase 622GW vs Garmin 66W: video quality
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