Nexar Beam GPS Dash Cam - 1 Year Nexar App Subscription Included - Unlimited Cloud Storage, Drive Recordings, Parking Mode, Night Vision, All Inside The Nexar App - WiFi HD Front Dash Cam (64 GB SD)

Nexar makes a great product (even though my first one died after 3 years). The app works great and pairing was super easy for the new unit. This is a basic model but works great for my needs.

This was the best investment I could have ever brought for my safety you get a very clear view picture and I love how you can set the different features that you want to have captured while you drive safely!

First, this camera works seamlessly with my iPhone. There is a setting where it AUTOMATICALLY starts recording when the vehicle begins moving, I do not have to turn it on or start anything. 2nd, it does NOT have to be on my screen for it to record what is happening, it kept working in the background with no problems with any of the other apps I used on my phone including Waze for directions, audiobooks, Spotify, etc. I could open the Nexar app anytime and have the screen show the view/recordings as they were happening, but I didn't feel like I needed to.EXPERIENCE: Used it on our 21 hour drive to Florida. In stop and go traffic we had a hard breaking incident and a notification came up that it felt the hard breaking event and it was automatically saving the clip (it obviously turned out to be nothing), but it was great that that it was automatic and I wouldn't have to worry if something bad would happen because the clip would automatically be saved.The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is it comes with a dual plug to go into the charging port in my car. Very thoughtful of Nexar, right? That way the camera always stays plugged in and there is another port for charging a phone. HOWEVER, for some reason every time someone tried to plug another charger into the 2nd outlet port, it would blow the fuse on my car. It took me a while to figure out the problem the first time. (Camera setup was like 5 minutes and everything worked great, then I plugged my phone charging cord in and was going for a drive then nothing worked. Like WTH???). By process of elimination figured it out (had a spare fuse) and all was good (and the fuse was only for the cig lighter/charging port so nothing else was affected.) Until hubs decided to charge his phone in the spare port and same thing happened again. No spare fuse, so had to wait to go buy a new one. I bought a couple, which was good cause child then plugged in phone for charging and there went fuse again. So now there is duct tape over the spare charging port and we had to get a longer charging cord to use the back seat charger (which is a minor inconvenience). Unfortunately, only 1 phone can be charged at a time then (we have not tried to see if dual charger in the back would work for 2 phones at once without blowing the fuse), but that is literally my only criticism of the camera. And I do not know if this is a problem with my car (20 amp fuse is standard for these ports) so somehow the camera and phone together overloaded the fuse, but not sure if it is the camera's fault or charger or my car.)Otherwise, it is VERY easy to read the instructions and set the camera to automatically turn on when a drive starts and to also run in the background so your phone works 100% normal while recording what is going on while driving (the exception could be if you want a different wifi in the vehicle since it uses it's own wifi system to connect with a phone, but we don't have car wifi or anything so had no issues with that either.)

I have no complaints for a low cost dash cam 3 months in. Works well. Easy to install properly with the supplied directions. (YMMV depending on vehicle) Only complaint is it's slow to pick up a drive sometimes so you might want to double check. Close out your last drive helps. And the occasional message from the company to checkup on you for no reason. Overall, great bang for the buck!For the people complaining about heat, you don't have to stream. The camera will pickup when you power on the car and notify you it is recording in the background. If you don't get the message, open the app and verify it has started recording. Close the app and it will, once again, notify you it is recording in the background. It will notify you at the end of the drive to save it also. Nice that it picks up things like hard braking and such automatically. Or, you can manual take a clip if you are streaming by clicking on it. I use Bluetooth to connect to my stereo so no issues with Wi-Fi.

I've been using this now for a couple weeks and the video quality is awesome. Clear as a bell. What I don't like is the app. It's not completely intuitive and there is ZERO in the way of user guides and no help on their site. The challenge I had was trying to figure out how to reduce the size of the clip instead of download the whole drive. A 30 minute drive is about one gig of space and that gets hard to move around. I finally figured out how to shrink the size of the clip but then when trying to do that, all of a sudden the video will go all black and then I have to get out completely and come back in and start from scratch to find the portion of the clip I want to save. Spend some time on the app and fix these shortcomings for a five-star review.After having this dash cam for several months I can now say that I totally regret buying this cam and have updated my review accordingly. Here's why I would never buy this again.1. Getting a clip downloaded is basically impossible unless you want to make the whole recording a clip which means a very large file. When trying to use the app to trim the clip it fails every time. What happens is as you browse the clip, eventually it will go all black and you can't see anything before or after. Essentially, the whole clip turns black and you have no idea where you are trying to clip.2. The suction cup doesn't hold very well. Camera falls off the windshield constantly. The most recent time the screw that holds the camera to the suction cup fell out and is now lost somewhere inside my car or on the front end of the dashboard where you can't reach anything that falls in.3. Constantly turning off mid drive. I'm constantly having to push the USB into the adapter they give you and it will chime and then seconds later it's back off again.4. Kills the battery on my phone. In one short drive of 30-minutes I can go from 100% charged to 60%. I then have to plug my phone in and it causes my phone to heat up and start shutting down apps.I would not buy this again, EVER. Don't waste your money on this. Find something that actually works.