what's happening everyone my name is Alex and welcome back in today's video we are checking
out an affordable 4K dash camera from ddpi called the mini 5. now for those of you that just want to
see the sample recordings all the daytime sample recordings start at this minute of the video
and the nighttime sample recording started this minute of the video so you can skip right to that
if that's um the only thing that you want to see for everyone else let's begin with a super quick
unboxing just so I can show you what comes in the box with this dash camera alright so get a pretty
small box and inside the box of course you're gonna find the dash camera itself and we also
have the user manual the user manual could come in handy mostly if this is the first dash camera that
you got aside from that we have a pretty long USB a to a USBC cable so the USBC part basically gets
plugged in the camera and the other and the USB am gets plugged in the power adapter so there is a
power adapter that comes in the box and that gets plugged in the cigarette lighter port on inside
your vehicle we also have two transparent films in the box you place one of them on the windshield
and on top of that you place the mount for the dash camera itself so there is another sticker
on the back of that mountain the mount is also adjustable so depending how your windshield is
you can move that up or down so you get the best viewing angle for the dash camera of course and
there is also a replacement sticker for that mount so you'd use that in case some you need to change
vehicles or something like that so overall pretty simple to install and of course there is also this
little plastic tool that will help you hide that cable throughout your car now you can also get a
hard wiring kit for this camera and if you are using the hard wiring kitam you can also access
the parking feature for the camera if you are not using a hard wiring kit basically the camera will
turn off every time you turn off on your engine so so if you do want to take advantage of those
parking features you need to get any style that I'm hardwiring kit but if you want a simple setup
on that cable and the power adapter that gets plugged in the cigarette lighter Port also works
taking a look at the dash camera itself well this thing is pretty tiny I guess the mini 5 name makes
sense now so very simplistic design for this dash camera so basically on the front here we have the
lens and the brand name on the back we have on LED that led will change colors depending on what the
camera is doing we also have some holes maybe for a speaker or a microphone we have one button on
the side here and a USBC port on the other side and you've probably noticed there is no slot for
an SSD card so this particular unit comes with 64 gigs of internal storage I believe that you
can also get this to the 128 gigs of internal storage but I may be wrong but my version here
has 64 gigs of internal storage but I feel that this is is more than enough for pretty
much anyone using this is also super simple so you basically Mount this in that bracket that I showed
you earlier that comes in the box that's mounted on the windshield and that's pretty much it you're
good to go you just have to plug it in and then you're good to go the camera also has a GPS unit
inside it and that also has a Wi-Fi connectivity so basically the camera will make a Wi-Fi network
and you connect to that Wi-Fi network with your smartphone and that's how you interact with the
camera so through your smartphone through an app all right so the app is called ddpi and this is
available for iOS and of course on Android I personally tried the app on my iPhone once you
connect to the camera of course you can change settings for the camera right from the app so for
example you can change the recording resolution if you don't want to record in 4k even though I do
recommend that you record in 4k you could also do 2K or 1080p you can select if you want microphone
recordings or if you don't and so on so there are a bunch of settings that you can change from there
now the most exciting part of the app and what makes this different than a lot of dash cameras
out there because the apps for a lot of dash cameras out there are just not great so this only
get a timeline so you can basically look on the timeline see what you want that I don't know 12
p.m yesterday you can scroll up to there and you can see the recordings from that particular time
you also have a cool overlay that you can have over those recordings you can see your location
on the map of course you can see the speeding all those recordings and so on so that is the
most exciting part of this dash camera experience is the app the app is very different than a lot of
apps for dash cameras that I've tried you can also download any portion of those recordings right to
your smartphone so then you can have it on your smartphone you can easily share it and so on so
let's say that something happened yesterday at 2PM you can just scroll at 2 pm yes they can download
that particular video file to your smartphone and then you can send it to whoever you need to
send it or show it to whoever you need to show it so the app is very very different as I said
you can also have some very cool overlay so you can actually download those recordings and have
those super cool overlays on top of that now for me personally I'm not a fan of those some overlays
and I do prefer the videos without them but hey if you want to have something a bit different you
can definitely download them that way alright so now that you've seen how the camera looks and you
have a better understanding of how it works let's check out some sample recordings that I've done
during the day and so you can see how they look and all the recordings I'm about to show you are
recorded in 4k so let's check out those daytime on Sample recordings and I will be right back
thank you
all right so as you've seen for yourself pretty sharp footage depending how far cars are from
you you can definitely see those license plates and since you're recording in 4k
there is also potential of zooming in in those recordings to get closer to a license plate if
a car was further away of course you're not going to be able to do that on your phone
but you can definitely do it on a computer or something like that so there is a lot of
potential when you have 4K recordings overall I'm very happy with the recordings that we get
from this camera during the day we also have that feature where the camera will save like
a recording like an emergency recording if something happens so let's say that you have
to break suddenly let's do that so if you do that the camera will start recording an emergency video
it senses that something happened a sudden movement happened and it will kind of lock
those some recordings for that particular event so of course it has that feature as
well all right let's move on and check out some sample recordings that I've done at night next
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all right so as you've seen for yourself those nighttime recordings are also quite
good of course they're not gonna be as good as the daytime recordings but for a dash camera I
feel that it does really really well you can still see those license plates depending how
the lights kind of hit those license plates because in some situations is impossible to
see those license plates even with your own eyes but overall I'm very happy with the nighttime
recordings that we get from the mini 5 as well so there you have it this is the ddpi mini 5 4K dash
cameras now for a 4K dash camera I feel that it's priced really really well all the other
4K Dash counters I got to try up until now were at least twice more expensive than this one so you do
get a lot of value for your money with this one the minion five the footage is also super crisp
during the day and at night so you can clearly see everything that's around you so big bonus
because once again as I said the footage from it is better than a lot of other dash cameras that
I got to try in the past and the app is also very different and also very useful so you can
interact with the camera in a different way than most other dash cameras out there you can look in
that timeline see exactly what an event happened at what time download datum to your phone and so
on plus you have those overlays that you can have um over the recordings all right guys hopefully
this video was useful thanks for watching and I'll see and I'll see you guys in the next