Miofive S1 4K Dash Cam for Car with GPS & UK Speed Camera Alerts

I am a new driver (18) and I’ve been looking for ages for a decent quality dash cam. If you look through Amazon, there are many that all seem to be quite similar. I then went looking through some reviews and guides and this one kept popping up. Price wise it’s relatively inexpensive compared to some of the top end systems which is great for someone like me working off a smaller budget. Getting it out of the box, there are many useful accessories that come with it (picture above). There is a panel “crow bar” that came in use as I didn’t want to have exposed wires everywhere. Also included is a replacement 3m double sided tape-foam thing that is good if you need to transfer it to another car. I found these were nice as most other companies would expect you to pay extra for something like that cough cough, Apple chargers. Installation was easy once I decided where I was going to put the camera. I have a Citroen c3 which has a large front windscreen which goes back quite far so I didn’t want to route the wires that way. I ended up pushing the wires into the trim from the back of the windscreen round the dash and then under the centre console where I plugged it into a spare usb port. The crowbar works well but I thought I might snap some of the plastic panels at times however no damage was done. Don’t be afraid to put pressure on the panels and lift them up a bit to allow the cable to get under. Once installed I turned on my car and it started first try then prompting me to insert a SIM card so I used one I had to hand - just a sandisk. On the description they said to use theirs but it makes no difference whatsoever, most SIM cards come out the same factory anyway. There are settings on the camera where you can adjust anything you need - you don’t need to use the app as some other people were saying. You can even turn off the voice if you want but I kept it on low volume. The app also works fine, just connect to the Bluetooth and WiFi and you can watch live - don’t know why they added that. Or you can view all the captures it made. You don’t need a phone to use this product, you can use a laptop to access videos by taking the flash drive out. As capturing goes, it’s very sensitive. I live down a private road that has more potholes than the m25 so it tends to go off quite a lot when I tested it. The dashcam records a minute before the sensors detect something which is standard. In terms of video clarity and quality, the camera is good I can make out number plates from about 60m away from me in the day and about 30m at night which is fine, if you do get into an accident then you will always share info and take pictures anyways so that’s not so important. I would like to see a version with a battery for recording when I’m parked but for this price range I’m not to bothered. Overall I feel more confident when driving knowing that if an accident then I can prove it’s not my fault and that there will be indisputable evidence to back this. Deserves the five stars I gave it.

This dash cam is really good. I bought the optional CPL filter for it and the image quaility is excellent. It's super easy to setup and being abke to access it from my phone is a bonus. My old one I had to remove the memory card and pop it in my laptop to view anything. There's one small annoying issue though, and that is the speaker that is far too quiet even at full volume. If I have my radio on anything more that a whisper it's impossible to hear any of the audo notifications from the camera. Even normal road noise drowns it out. My old Mio MiVue camera audio was far superior to this and could be heard over the radio. Put a better speaker in it with a much higher volume and it'd be 5 stars.

Feels solid and well made. Mounting was fairly easy although it is important to get the horizontal axis lined up before fixing the mount to the screen. There is no horizontal adjustment, only up/down and rotate. Video quality is good, as to be expected and I also bought the polarising filter which does a good job of removing reflections but is expensive, particularly when compared to the price of the camera. Overall I am pleased with the set up apart from the fact that the filter Amazon sent was clearly a return. The cardboard and plastic bubble it should have been sealed in had been cut open and sellotaped back together. I inspected it closely could see nothing wrong with it so decided it was not worth the hassle of returning and reordering it. Not impressed with Amazon on this score.

Super easy to use and very reliable. Great little unit and fantastic value. Connects to the phone quickly and intuitively plus let's you download clips when needed very easily. Highly recommend. Oh and it does speed camera announcements very accurately too! Brilliant!

Read lots of reviews about it, never really believe all. This camera is the best. So all reviews were spot on. Love ut

Rubbish. for setup, access to the unit is via its own WiFi hotspot -once you can get it working- bit of a catch 22 there (n.b it defaults to 5.4ghz) it doesn't like the Duck ducks Go browser due to its ad-blocking VPN so be warned and its built in QR code couldn't be read by my phone - although it has Bluetooth the designers seemed prioritise this Hotspot Wifi -but all it seems to do in practise is lock out your phones wifi connection etc .. e.g. when you want to update the database or the firmware or even download the App from Play store (re: firmware good luck on this aspect as i gave up after the 4th attempt) so the phone data service will be your only option with this aspect due to the timeouts I was getting I assume Bluetooth then takes over pushing the software onto the unit ? also I had the unit on USB pretty much all the time as it was completely discharged out of the box, so you'd think the unit would at least turn on after the internal "capacitor" / battery was charged from hours of USB charging /faffing about - ? not at all. + side : lots of cable with a fairly sturdy little plastic lever to ruin your pillar liners with-not that got that far- , the sticker for the windshield bracket looks tiny I assume it has some kind on no more nails glue that once on will NOT be coming off in a hurry ? So why the preliminary set up cant be done over Bluetooth and then the major software pushed to the device etc is beyond me, but all in all setting this unit up was a complete FAFF, thinking some more on it , driving with such a setup would mean your phones wifi and bluetooth has to be dedicated to the device , its doing similar along with its speed limit GPS, combined with your phone GPS ?? someone in MIOFIVE should ring up TP-LINK and ask them how seamless setting up is done. sorry Auto Express I will treat your recommendations with a more cynical eye going forward.

Very good quality dash-cam also easy to install. Very useful the quick release system from the windshield, in case you should remove the camera inside sensitive areas. Not yet explored all the features, but for the moment I have what I need. App easy to use. Price very honest.