Nextbase 522GW Front Dash Cam, 2K 1440p with Wi-Fi and GPS

The box came with all the needed parts camera, cable and a tool to assist pushing the cable into your cars headlining and routing down the front door pillar.Hiding the wire is a different story and your ease of doing this will vary with each vehicle. I completed mine in about thirty minutes after working out the routing.The camera has some great fetures and is linked using the Nextbase app on your smartphone and bluetooth to keep the two connected. This enables you to download any footage to your phone without having to remove the camera from the car. This can also be done relatively easily as it is connected to the mount by a magnetic fitting. It is a very strong fitting and you will change the angle of your mount each time you remove it, meaning you will want to reset the view when you then replace it.On the side of the unit is a connector similar looking to an HDMI port and this is used to add additional camera modules such as the rear view camera.The camer resolution is a great 1440p at 30fps, but if you prefer you can use it to get 60fps at 1080p. This also can vary when you add a rear camera where the resolution of the rear camera will be either 720p or 1080p.I initially had problems setting up the 522GW awith Alexa, but deleted both the Alexa and NextBase apps from my device, forgot the nextbase in bluetooth and restarted my phone. Now after restarting installed apps again and when accessing the Alexa via the nextbase app setup, it correctly opened and found my nextbase 522GW. After adding it to Alexas devices, it worked. Now, the dashcam microphones pick up the Alexa wake word that connects to your phone by bluetooth to control the Alexa app. Works really well but very reliant on a good mobile signal!The camer powers up when starting my car as I have not hardwired it. I have therefore turned off the parking mode that leaves the camera in standby on its internal battery. I found I did not travel enough to recharge the battery but if this changes I can easily reenable the option. The device is controlled via the touch screen which works well and gives access to the menu and even adds an Alexa button to the screen once set up.Lots of menu options to change to your liking or just leave relatively alone. I am a techie person and understand the more involved settings with no difficulty.Overall a great camera, great quality and the bonus that may be good for you is a potential discount on your car insurance when using the Nextbase!

** updated to 5 stars **You must (no ifs, no buts) but a SD card that’s suitable for constant video recording. At this point that’s the Sandisk High Endurance card or Nextbases own brand.Any other card will make the camera fail. It might look, at first, as if it’s working but it will fail (see my initial review below). Even super expensive Sandisk extreme cards will not work.Once you’ve bought the right sd card, this camera works a treat. Great night video quality, works well with the options rear view cam. Beware that it records your speed as well, so drive lawfully.Original rant -it’s basically unreliable. You cannot depend on it to record an incident because it may have locked up, or look like it’s on but not responsive or screen is almost white and non responsive or almost black and non responsive or it will reset randomly.Plus you need to find an expensive U3 class SD card - and good luck finding one of those - you’ll have to use online because PC world and the like don’t carry them.

I bought this model for the bigger screen. I couldn’t find any difference between this and the 422 other than that.As a dash cam, this is a great device. I have mine hooked up with the hardwire kit and rear view camera (the one you stick to the back window). The quality is great, and the camera fires up every time I start the car bar the rare software hiccup.The software is what let’s this camera down. Even though I have auto off switched off, if I’m stationary for any period of time it will still turn itself off. As soon as I start moving again it will switch back on, so it’s only a minor annoyance.The Alexa functionality is flaky at best. Sometimes the device won’t respond, no matter how often or loud you call for it, or it will respond as if it’s completed a task, when it hasn’t. It won’t play Spotify from my phone, but will play amazon music.In summary, if you’re looking for a good quality dash cam you can attach a rear view module to, this is great. If your looking at this to add Alexa to your car in addition within a single device, it’s not really there yet.

I did A LOT of research on dashcams before choosing one. Even this one had some bad reviews but given the 70%+ 5 stars, I decided to go for it. Overall it's great. Its better than my previous full HD and 2K should be the minimum these days. So far I've only driven in bright sunshine so can't comment on night or rain picture quality. I just reviewed the videos on my PC and you have to be quite close to the car in front to make out the reg plate - stopping distance close.The picture is good enough for accidents but it won't pick up say facial features unless they're very close.If the 622 was more affordable I would have got this for the 4K.Image was stable and not jerky/ washed out/ reflective etc.It stores files in 1min files but it is all continuous. The 1min files are easier to email/ save etc rather than downloading a whole hour of video to find one moment for example.Set up was easy - my USB port is below my radio so I just plug that in and don't bother with hardwire or hiding the cables.I bought a 128GB Scandisk U3 card because it was so much cheaper than the Nextbase one. Formatted it straight away after reading all the reviews - works perfectly.Downloaded the android app to set it up which I did in the house and this was easy. When I'm parked up somewhere and want to use the app, it does struggle to connect over WiFi. Sometimes it looks like it hasn't connected but when you press 'back' you're suddenly connected. Its fine because I plug the camera into my PC (downloaded the Nextbase Player for PC) and it works great - really great. Has speed info and a little map that shows you where you were.Would definitely recommend but if you have the funds, get the 4K.

The Nextbase 522GW - Series 2 dash cam sits neatly at the high end of dash cams, and out competes many of them. It comes with all the bits in the box you'd need, with the only exception being the micro sd card - which you can use up to 128gb (class 10 or higher)Its really easy to set up, clear and intuitive touch screen buttons, just set and go!I personally prefer the stick on mount, but there is a suction mount for those that move their cams a lot. The power cord is long enough to hide away around all car or van trims.This cam offers a quick release from its mount via a powerful magnetic connector.I found the g sensor settings a little sensitive, these are used to lock a video file in the event of a bump, so I've turned mine off. There is however a central button on the screen side of the cam which locks the current file being recorded by a single press, so at any point press this to lock a file.Its also very easy to update to the latest software by linking to a pc via included USB cable, this is recommended before use, as is a 2 hour charge.All in all a brilliant cam, high quality footage (I set to 1080p 60fps) reliable cam.

I bought this back in August 20 and have had it for atleast 7 months. I knew this dashcam was more expensive than some other brands but I decided to go with what I believed to be the most trusted brand.This Dashcam is not worth the money I paid and I'm giving it one star because although the picture quality is great. It frequently faults and the app is terrible!!! On some occasions I have noticed that the dashcam has not started recording when I start the engine, so I have to manually press record. The whole purpose is that your entire journey is recorded so clearly there is a fault when sometimes it doesn't start!! Imagine you need to rely in a recorded incident only to find out that it didn't start to record how it should.The app is just terrible... today I started the app to download a recording and first the app wouldn't connect to my dashcam, then when I restarted it I couldn't get the video clip to play for about 20 minutes. I gave up after that, it just came up with an error sign when trying to play the video.I won't go into too much detail on the random blue screen that has come up a few times. When it happens, nothing can be done, I've even struggled to restart the thing!!!

I ordered the dashcam at a competitive price and it was delivered to my pick-up point on time. As is normal with tech it required charging and updating before use but that was relatively straightforward. It installed easily as it was to replace a 3 year old unit which had a failed battery. Now the rant; Nextbase were torture to deal with as with most chats. I have subsequently got a replacement battery and how to do it videos are available online. As the battery is a relatively cheap consumerable item you'd think some thought would have been given to simple replacement, however, don't consider it unless you're confident and have some mechanical and electrical skills.

Nextbase is a reliable outstanding quality device and this was for a second vehicle. Highly recommend and app is useful tool very user friendly. Some cheap chinese versions dont perform as expected - you get what you pay for

Very happy with the price and with the postage. Arrived in a few days, well packed. Thanks

Nextbase ist sicherlich mit die beste Dashcam auf dem Europäischen Markt.Was auch der Grund ist weshalb ich mir im November 2019 eine Nextbase 522GW gekauft habe.In erster Line nutze ich diese Dashcam zur Reisedokumentation aber auch im normalen Kurzverkehr ist sie sicherlich eine große Hilfe, wenn man Situationen Dokumentieren möchte. Nun nach knapp einem Jahr habe ich einiges an Erfahrung mit dieser Dash Cam gesammelt.Dieser Bericht soll Helfen das Produkt noch attraktiver zu gestalten und Informationen zu geben wie normale Benutzer mit der Handhabung und den Möglichkeiten umgehen.Meine Dashcams 522GW ist in einem VW Golf Variant Baujahr 2018 montiert.Ich benutze die Halterung mit dem Saugnapf, die im Übrigen sehr gut ist.Gerne würden wir natürlich die Klick & Go Halterung nutzen aber das ist wegen der umständlichen Handhabung keine gute Idee. Natürlich ist die Dashcam immer mit der neusten Firmware ausgestattet und auch die Software MyNextbase Player ist immer auf den neusten Versions Stand.Wie ich bereits erwähnte Dokumentiere ich in erster Linie damit längere Reisen.Bei dieser Gelegenheit habe ich die Erfahrung gemacht das die Lage des Micro-SD Karten Slots auf der linken Seite eine sehr unpraktische Lösung ist, da die Dashcam rechts in Nähe des Rückspiegels montiert ist.Für Fahrzeuge die ihr Lenkrad auf der linken Seite haben ein echtes Handicap. Jedes Mal, wenn man dieMicro-SD Karte wechseln muss ist es notwendig die Dashcam mit Saugnapf zu demontieren um die Karte zu wechseln. Besonders bei Nacht ohne Licht ein Problematisches unterfangen. Aber auch am Tage ist es äußerst schwierig die Karte zu wechseln. Fahrzeuge die ihr Lenkrad auf der rechten Seite haben sind hier klar im Vorteil. Schön wäre es, wenn man den Kartenslot nach unten auf die rechte Seite oder in die Mitte verlegen könnte.So wäre es völlig egal auf welcher Seite das Lenkrad ist.Da ich aber, wenn ich auf Reisen bin sehr lange Strecken fahre und oft zwischen12 und 17 Stunden unterwegs bin wünschte ich mir eine Unterstützung größerer Micro-SD Karten wie etwa 256GB oder 512GB. So bräuchte man wenigstens die Karte während der Reise nicht zu wechseln. Besonders bei einer höheren Video Auflösung ein echter Mangel.Die Geschwindigkeit als Bildschirmschoner anzuzeigen ist wirklich ein schönes Feature. Aber könnte man nicht noch eine gut sichtbare Anzeige hinzufügen welche den noch vorhandenen Speicherplatz auf der SD Karte anzeigt?Und vielleicht nur dann zur Anzeige bringt wenn der Speicherplatz auf der SD-Karte recht knapp wird bevor die ersten Videos wieder überschrieben werden.Soviel zur Handhabung der Dashcam. Für den normalen Stadt Betrieb sicherlich ausreichend. Für eine Reisedokumentation kann man noch einiges besser gestalten.Die Video-Bild-Qualität ist eigentlich schon recht ansprechend. Doch bei Nachtfahrten wird es schwierig. Besonders bei schlechtem Wetter wie starken Regen. Einzelheiten in einer schwierigen Situation zu erkennen ist faktisch unmöglich. Hier wünschte ich mir schon noch etwas bessere Technik.Um eine Verbindung zwischen Handy (z.B. iPhone) und Dashcam aufzubauen um eventuelle Einstellungen zu verändern erfordert viel Zeit und Geduld.Was den eingebauten Akku betrifft, so ist dieser sehr schwach. Selbst bei sehr langen Fahrten wird der Akku nie auf 100% aufgeladen.Nun etwas zur Software dem MyNextbase Player. Im Grunde ein Player mit einem recht guten Ansatz.Doch auch hier gibt es noch einiges zu verbessern.Die Version 4.7.6 hat sich zwar gegenüber der Vorgängerversion gesteigert, aber es gibt noch Luft nach oben. Immerhin laufen die Videos mit 1080p endlich flüssig.Bei 4K Videos welche die 622GW aufnimmt ruckelt es hingegen heftig.Videos mit MyNextbase Player zu bearbeiten erweist sich als sehr aufwendig.Hier wünschte ich mir eine schnellere und bessere Handhabung der Videos.Merkwürdig ist die Anzeige von zwei verschieden Uhrzeiten in derMyNextbase Player Videoliste.Der Versuch die korrekte Uhrzeit in den Einstellungen zu korrigieren schlug fehl da es dazu keine Möglichkeit gibt.Als Fazit kann ich aber sagen das die Nextbase Dashcam ein gelungenes Produkt ist welches ich jederzeit weiterempfehlen kann oder selbst wiederkaufen würde.Deshalb fällt es mir nicht schwer diesem Produkt fünf Sterne zu vergeben.Lobenswert ist der Support. Eine Kontaktaufnahme wird sofort beantwortet. Interessanterweise mal in Englisch, mal ich Deutsch. Ich überlege dann immer wieder sollte ich Englisch oder Deutsch schreiben. Ich glaube aber man versteht auch Deutsch sehr gut.Dies ist ein Erfahrungsbericht und sollte keinesfalls als Kritik wahrgenommen werden. Ich sehe eher die Chance darin das Nextbase seine Dashcams noch innovativer, kreativer und Zukunftsorientierter gestallten kann.

Great product

Also, I finally accepted that any dash cam with phone app will compete with Wireless Apple CarPlay. So you have to plug in your iPhone or no CarPlay. That said, the Nextbase 522GW has outstanding 1440p HD video. You do not need to buy their overpriced 128GB Micro SD card, but DO buy a brand name (SanDisk Max Endurance C10, U3, V30, 4K UHD Micro SD Card - SDSQQVR-128G-GN61A). And ... THE SUCTION CUP MOUNT STAYS PUT !!! Can't overemphasize this. I refuse to put adhesive mounts on my 2021 F150 PowerBoost windshield - PLUS - there are times when I want to put the dash cam out of sight. The power cord plugs into the mount and is difficult to unplug, so if I wand to remove the memory card I take the cam and mount in the house. Obviously I also don't play the 'hide the wire' game.The iPhone app is, well, OK. You can download important video clips to the app and store in the Nextbase Cloud (for 30 days). If you want to keep longer, pull the clip off the card and save on your computer. The Nextbase computer app is quite good. I am all Apple, so I can't speak for and PC differences. Bottom line is that you really only want the clips that contain incidents or notable events. The 'Protect' button at the bottom of the camera saves the video clip, as the card will automatically loop and overwrite when it reaches capacity. The default video clip is 1 minute, and can be changed. You can check current card memory status and format the card via the iPhone app.One other note, I live in Houston Texas and my truck lives in the driveway. The cam stays on my windshield almost always, so it experiences EXTREME heat. After 1 month I have had no issues. I'm an Apple guy, so I don't use the Alexa feature, nor do I care about recording parking mode incidents. But, if you want a dash cam that is reliable with a quality video to catch that one idiot that pulls right out in front of you - this one is a good choice.

Nice