I purchased this camera specifically for my trip to Thailand. So far so good. Taken a good quality of pictures and sharp. I was thinking to buy a GoPro but the price is a bit ridiculous. This camera is a good alternative choice and value for money.

Battery life ok but display of battery misleading. Battery will indicate 50% full then goes flat immediately.
When on 4k video recording you might do a 20 minute video but on play back video indicates 8.5 minute slots why.
Overall a good action cam

I bought 5 of these to film some scale ship trials out on the water and they were perfect for the job. I’m not jumping out of aeroplanes or snowboarding off mountainsides so I can’t comment on how they perform in those environments but attached around our trial vessel on suction mounts taking 4K video they were ideal and I bought them for about the same cost as hiring a set of GoPros 🙂 What I really like about them is they’re very small and they’re fully waterproof so I don’t need to faff about with cases. The main screen is bright and clear, there’s also a screen on the front and they come with two batteries, a wireless remote and all the accessories I needed. The only extras I bought were a set of waterproof hard shell cases and the suction mounts. The menu system is straightforward and the setup was really quick, didn’t really need any outside help. Battery life seemed to be as claimed although we’re doing more testing later and will check this out. Image quality looks pretty good although our application is relatively slow and stable so it’s not going to challenge the image stabilisation.

If I have one criticism it’s with the remote control, which is both excellent and frustrating. its excellent because the included remote units are small, Bluetooth, display a lot of useful information and they seem to work well with each camera. It’s frustrating because I have 5 cameras and I want to start and stop them all together but you can’t with a single remote, you have to use all 5 of them which is pretty cumbersome . There is an iPhone app which uses Wi-Fi to the cameras but I didn’t get this to work well, it wasn’t too reliable. You connect to each camera ad hoc so you have to switch Wi-Fi networks on the phone to control each camera. What I’d really like is to connect each camera to my phone Wi-Fi ad hoc and control all 5 at once from the app, but haven’t figured out how (or even if) I can do this. In the end I went round and operated each camera manually which was a shame but I hope in future I can either solve this or hope Akaso do a firmware/app update to improve this. I like the cameras and at the price still give them 5 stars but if this one aspect was fixed they’d be outstanding.

I’m still getting used to this, and I am new to action cams, but that said, first impressions are good quality video. Good image stabilisation. Rather poor sound.
The remote seemed to work well. The voice activation failed completely for me. It was turned on, but did not respond to my voice. I don’t know why, but that will be something to investigate.
In the test images you’ll see that colours and reproduction look good in bright sunlight. Indoor shots on the shady side of the house were less impressive, but adequate.
Trying to film a hover fly right up close demonstrated that macro focus is not the strong point of the camera, but I suspect it’s not intended to be.
Likewise it felt as though there were a slight delay between taking a photo and the ‘click’ sound. Will be interesting to see whether that makes it difficult to get shots of moving subects. Perhaps the answer there will be ‘burst’ shooting.
Transferring the data over to a Mac seemed very straightforward. Menus and settings seem fairly easy to use.
So far I’m fairly impressed with the package. I was expecting there to be a waterproof casing in addition to the IPX8. There isn’t. Perhaps it isn’t needed. I guess I’ll find out when I take the camera to the beach in a few days time. I’ll try and update this after further testing. But for the moment I feel that I’ve dropped a reasonably large amount of money on something that is good value and just below the top of the range (with equally top of the range prices).