Nexar Beam GPS Dash Cam | HD Front Dash Cam | 2022 Model |
Nexar Beam GPS Dash Cam | HD Front Dash Cam | 2022 Model | 64 GB SD Card Included | Unlimited Cloud Storage | Parking Mode | WiFi
| Dimensions: | 15.9 x 9.5 x 8.41 cm; 410 Grams |
| Batteries Included: | 1 Lithium Ion batteries required. |
| Manufacture: | Nexar Inc. |
| Dimensions: | 15.9 x 9.5 x 8.41 cm; 410 Grams |
| Origin: | China |
| Reference: | 64BEAM-GPS |
Extremely basic to understand, UI and app are useful and manage to provide visual clarity on most things. Parking mode is kinda neat as well and I like how in the settings you can turn off the startup noise. Well worth the money. Also the suction mounting method is far far better than the ridiculous adhesive most products use.
Serves the purpose without hassles. No screen but you can directly project the live feed on the phone. Only problem I see is if I forget to switch my phone wifi,, it wouldn’t transfer the clip instantly. Serves the purpose. No issues till now
Good product, I like the unlimited cloud storage and phone app, as far as I know, no other dashcam does this. I’ve had problems with my pixel 7 and this recently though, my phone screen has to be on for the recordings to start which is a bit inconvenient. Can turn it off again once it starts.
Great dashcam and amazing customer service! If you want a dashcam where you can instantly get a video, choose nexar. Moreover customer service may take a day to respond after your initial report of an issue, however afterwards they are very prompt with responses and will follow up!
After going through at least 5 other cameras I landed on this. It’s really good. Some weird things with settings on the app but generally it works and looks great. I would highly recommend.
My Review of the Nexar Beam dash cam (Iphone 13 pro max, IOS 16)
Initial Impressions:
* The box was not sealed, with either a sticker, tape or cellophane.
* The Contents of the box appeared undisturbed, packed neatly and with all promised accessories.
* Disappointed to see a Mini USB for power.
* All protective plastic was in place on the mount and camera lens.
* Amazon SKU label indicated ‘new 2021’ rather than ‘2022’, the model date promised on the listing.
*The actual camera, mount (integrated GPS) looks well thought out and nicely put together.
Fitting in Car:
* Routing the power cable can be a little awkward, however clear instructions, cable clips and a trim tool to help are included (11.5ft USB Mini cable).
* Nice twist lock window mount that works well, using the GPS module as the part that turns to lock the mount.
* The camera and mount while quite square and boxy are low profile and can be concealed well behind my rearview mirror (I am still able to see the LED indicator lamps).
* Be sure to mount the camera so that it looks through via an area swept by your windscreen wipers ( I had to move mine).
Pairing the camera to the Phone / App:
* The pairing process was OK, but far from confident. While paring was happening as the instructions said, it took longer than I would have liked to find the camera and pair successfully (I was getting twitchy that it was not going the find the camera).
* The LED lights give a clear indication of when the camera is connecting to the app and connected to the app.
* The camera has been connecting to the app as expected.
Features that appealed to me and why I chose this camera
(not the only or all camera features):
* Auto cloud upload of an incident without limit or extra cost (at the moment policies often change over time).
* Integrated GPS.
*Dash camera of the year 2022 as voted by ‘expert reviews’.
* Priced competitively.
* Not too expensive to leave in car.
Using the Camera:
* This is where previous reviews concerned me. Some said that you had to have the Nexar app open with the camera view streaming, for the recordings to be available in the IOS App. I have not found this to be the case. Reviews have also mentioned a delay in the start of recording when using the auto-start feature Via Bluetooth, I have noticed this however you can confirm the connection status from the LED lights on the camera. The reliability of the auto connection is also a concern for me, I believe it has missed at least one trip I was expecting to be recorded. Time will tell if this camera is reliable long-term.
It is too early to say if I would recommend this Nexar Beam dash camera, that said I will be keeping it and will resort to manual starting of drive if it comes to that.
Hopefully, this has helped you decide if it’s the dash camera for you, you will only really know if you try it for yourself.
Update:
* Nexar will stream to the app without the app being open (have to agree to the permissions)
* Even once the blue Wi-Fi light is solid there is still a delay starting the recording (the streamed version to the phone anyway)
* The Bluetooth auto start is not 100 % it has missed another drive (streamed to phone)
Not feeling what you would call solid and reliable, for me anyway.
Very great dash cam for a very great price. The Nexar Beam is very easy to install and I have had no problems with it just make sure that you go to the official site and see if it works with your phone.
Only one downside that I found is that the app is looks a bit different from the add but still is great quality and servers its purpose.
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.
Mint little camera with lots of features records every drive and saves them in the cloud which is free,stream to your phone to save videos to your phone very simple to set up and use
Great little camera. Clever use of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to talk with your phone and upload drives and key moments to your phone and the cloud. However, this can use your battery power and if you don’t charge your phone as you drive, this might be an issue. My only other issue is that sometimes drives don’t appear on your phone. They’re all saved on the Micro SD card, so it’s not a major problem. Overall though, it’s neat and discreet, which is what I was after.
There was no fiddling about. All the instructions were precise and eligible.
In an ideal world nobody would need one of these but we don’t live in an ideal world and this is perfect for making sure everyone tells the truth if you get into a collision. Dead easy to set up, simple to use and worth every Penny
I did /still have a Mobius, but I need a laptop or adapter to upload the video from the SD card to the lap or phone. And sometimes that’s not an option (having the mentioned devices in your car). So I wanted something I can connect and upload to my phone, immediately (this cam will do that). It will get your phone very warm, due to the fact it stays connected by Bluetooth. And you need to make sure both the green/blue leds are solid (not blinking). Besides those personal corks, this dashcam already paid for itself. Just two weeks of owning it, a commercial van side swapped me. And even though the other driver got the ticket, their insurance company was taking their time investigating the accident. But once I told them I had video and emailed it to them at 4:04 PM, the very next day at 9:45 AM they sided with me. (See the video and pic). Side Note: Get the 32gb model (the 32gb is the size of the SD card) and just purchase a128gb SD card separately to replace it with, it will be a lot cheaper that way.
Like it says on almost all the reviews, it tends to be a bit heavy on your phone battery….. but the extra facilities that this little gem has is well worth the slight problem.
Downside is that you have to download an app (which is nothing complicated) and connect it with your Wi-Fi. I am having trouble to connect it in front of my house as my phone is keep connecting to my Wi-Fi at home and not the actual camera. Other than that it’s really good and easy to use. Definitely worth the money.
Great Dashcam, easy to use, love the app, would definitley recommend
Pros: Very quick app and account setup, Local storage, continuous record, detection alerts, auto on/off, comes with long cord so you can mount by rearview mirror and snake it all the way back to a center console usb port (comes with a 12v adapter which is dual usb too) and comes with a bunch of clicks and tools to hide the cable. Mounting the camera with suction cup, hiding the wire (2019 Ford F150) and setting it up took a max of 35mins to make sure it looks nice.
Cons: Wish the camera had a bit of a wider lenses, camera feels very plasticy and is 1080p quality.
With that 10/10 would buy again, and recommended. Hope this helps some people with the 1000’s of cheap and crap “Dash Cams” out there.
Cloud storage as being one of their main advertising points is almost useless, the cloud uploaded videos are chopped up and in the worst quality possible, cut into 30 second clips with Timelapse mode. Definitely horrible there.
Wifi always has to be on for the camera to record, if u accidentally left it off it won’t record. Example: it can get annoying having the wifi on outside the house in the driveway where connection is bad, but if u turn it off then it won’t record
Since cloud storage is basically useless, make sure you have storage on your phone because if you want to see a video through there then you need storage so it can save them, if not then you have to get ur computer every time to see what the sd card has.
Motion sensing is ok but I wish I could see through the camera when the car is parked and be notified of when someone touches my car when I’m away from it, not when I get in it.
Overall it’s still a good camera, definitely in comparison to other dash cams is the high quality one of the bunch.
Pros: Picture quality, app ease of use, videos streaming / saving to your phone quickly.
Cons: Drains your phone battery! Does not start recording as soon as you leave, sometimes misses first 5 minutes of the drive.
When I first installed this, I had it plugged into an outlet that was always powered. The camera relied on motion and precise location from my phone to know when to record. This used about 90% of my battery, killing my new iPhone 13 Pro Max by 6pm. Using the “phone battery optimization” and “outlet power always on” options in the app did nothing. If I turned off location or motion services, it never recorded anything unless I manually started recording. I had to wire a new outlet specifically for the camera that turned on / off with the ignition to solve this issue.
Otherwise, the camera works fine. The video quality is very good and I like the app. The only downside right now is that I cannot figure out how to start the recording as soon as it powers on. Sometimes I miss the first 3-5 minutes of the drive.
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.)
Pros: The video quality is really good. The Nexar app is very user friendly and records all the trips automatically once you sync your phone with the dash cam. You also have an option to select memory space on your phone to store the videos. This buy is spectacular value for money. GPS an added bonus in case your car lacks Apple CarPlay or Anroid Auto.
Cons: Not sure how useful is the parking feature since it records the car front once collision or disturbance is identified.
Overall an amazing product ,
Cheers
Overall, good dash cam. There are limitations.. if you have wireless apple car play in your car, this dash cam is NOT for you. You are not able to use this dash cam and the wireless apple car play as the cam uses your wifi. Parking mode is hit and miss, other limitations include draining battery of your mobile device as your phone is used in the background whilst it is recording. Good quality and convenient with it being stored on your device, however parts of your drive will be blurred for 2-3 seconds randomly every couple of mins (not a massive deal but would be bad luck if it inconveniently blurs out as an incident happens)
The incidents and sensors are very good, if you break abruptly or accelerate it will detect and record accordingly in a clip.
Overall the camera works pretty well. It took me 10-15 minutes to get it synced with my phone and the cable hidden around the frame of the car and after that, it’s pretty much been plug and play. I recently drove for 5 1/2 hours and it had no problem running and recording the whole time. The picture quality seems decent, enough that you can see license plate numbers pretty clearly from 10-15 feet away. After that point it starts becoming pixelated. Usually I manually hit start drive in the app, but it does automatically record if you don’t. I’ve had 0 issues so far.
One thing I appreciate is that you can shut off sound recording. I wasn’t sure of that when I made my purchase. I tend to sing and talk and swear at other drivers while I drive. If that footage is being used in an insurance claim or heaven forbid a lawsuit, the last thing I want is to have my antics recorded.
I’ve had a couple parking incidents detected but both times it’s been me shutting one of the doors after the car has been turned off for a minute or two.
The one reason I don’t give it 5 stars is connectivity. It streams footage to your phone using a wifi signal that it generates. If you are connected to your home or work wifi network, the camera will not connect with the phone until you lose that signal. I quickly get out-of-range of my home network, but for work I am connected to wifi until I leave our giant campus. From what I understand it records to internal memory in the event that it can’t sync with your phone so it’s not like that footage is lost, but in the event something happens, I’d rather have all of it immediately available on my phone.
Overall, the positives outweigh the negatives so far!