4/17/2024 0 Comments Rollerblade dt4 reviewThe GT series was Huawei’s flagship until the Huawei Watch turned up, so with the GT 4 it’s about offering largely the same core experience in two size options with more fitness and health features and the same promise of weeks (as opposed to days) of battery life. In that time we’ve had the Huawei Watch 4 Pro, GT 3 Pro, GT 3 SE, the Watch D and Watch Buds just to name a few as Huawei makes smartwatches a larger part of its portfolio. That said, we’d recommend professional installation unless you’re comfortable with removing and reattaching interior trim panels.Įagle-eyed readers will notice that we forgot to change the time and date of the dash cam, so while the footage was recorded in February 2023, the watermark says 2021.The Huawei Watch GT 4 sees Huawei continue to swell its wearable ranks in 2023 with the follow-up to the GT 3 landing well over a year after its predecessor. The camera is waterproof, so can be mounted outside (like where you would find a reversing camera), and a cable to route through your car interior to the front camera is included. Much smaller than the main unit, the rear camera is attached to a metal bracket designed to be screwed to the rear of your car or stuck to the windscreen with an included adhesive pad. This has a resolution of Full HD (1920 x 1080) at 30 frames per second and a viewing angle of 150 degrees. This being a two-channel dash cam kit, the D4 comes with a second, rear-facing camera. The D4 records 4K footage at 30 frames per second, and although you can lower the resolution to 1080p, a higher frame rate for even smoother video is not available. We were also pleased to see none of the image distortion that plagues some dash cams, where troublesome stability software causes the footage to wobble on uneven roads. Footage is also smooth and the 170-degree front lens is wider than much of the competition, ensuring a good view to each side of our car. There’s no HDR on offer, but the exposure is well-balanced enough to produce the right amount of detail on bright, sunny days, and there’s a pleasing lack of grainy noise in the shadows. The Kingslim uses a Sony IMX335 Starvis sensor with an aperture of f/1.8. The footage doesn’t look like a 4K Hollywood blockbuster, but it’s sharper than some Full HD dash cams we’ve used recently, with perfectly legible number plates and road signs. Put all of this to one side – along with the frustrating need to create a user account to access the app – and the D4 performs pretty well. Pop-up messages like “Kindly reminder, determine exit?” suggest this is a company that needs to put more effort into making its products suitable for English-speaking markets. There are annoying bugs and much of the language used can be described as broken English at best. The app isn’t particularly good, and while this is a common issue shared by many dash cams, Kingslim’s is worse than most. The dashcam works as soon as it is plugged into your car’s 12V socket, but there’s also a smartphone app for adjusting settings and transferring video recordings over a Wi-Fi connection. As such, this dash cam might not be suitable for vehicles with near-vertical windscreens, like vans. Another annoyance is how the Kingslim’s mount only adjusts vertically, not horizontally, and how it only has about 30 degrees of movement. We’d rather see a suction cup or, better still, the sort of magnetic system Garmin uses to great effect. The windscreen mount has an integrated adhesive pad. No microSD card is included, but the Kingslim works with cards up to 256GB. We’d prefer to see the newer and smaller micro USB (or, better still, USB-C) but at least the included cable is long enough and seems of decent quality. There’s a rubber flap on the edge covering a microSD card slot and mini USB port. This isn’t a dash cam that can be thrown into the back of the car or glove box and regularly switched between cars. The display seems quite fragile, so we’d encourage buyers to leave the D4 in place once it is installed. We’re not sure where this came from, but the result is a series of colored lines obscuring the lower portion of the screen. During our review, we noticed some damage to the lower quarter of the display.
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