Garmin enhances the already impressive capabilities of its tidy-slim fling cams with phone connectivity and cloud uploads.

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Garmin launched Wednesday that one of PCWorld’s licensed line of fling cams has been upgraded with phone and cloud connectivity. The unique fling cams, which come in without prolong by technique of garmin.com, comprise the 1080p Scurry Cam Mini 2, the 1080p Scurry Cam 47, the 1440p Scurry Cam 57, and the 1440p, huge-self-discipline-of-leer 67W.

All as an alternative of the correctly named, key-fob-sized Mini 2 feature GPS and a two-fling shade point out. The Mini 2 is priced at $130, and the tip-end 67W at $260.

Which skill of the newfound connectivity, there’s now a parking mode (wake on disturbances to expend video), plus a dwell leer to your phone courtesy of the Garmin Force app. The app might doubtless perchance doubtless additionally be used to offload and leer captures, as neatly as configure settings.

Movies are uploaded for safekeeping to Garmin’s Vault storage provider, the establish aside they’ll dwell for at the least 24 hours, with an option (by technique of yarn and subscription, of course) for storage for as much as 30 days. All four models retailer video on removeable SD cards for easy swapping and archiving. 

Garmin’s fling cams lend a hand order sustain a watch on and offer a unfold of corrupt-driver—ahem, driver safety aspects, equivalent to forward collision and lane departure signals, as neatly as fling digicam warnings. 

To our suggestions, Garmin’s unique models are as stout-featured as any forward-ideal fling cams within the marketplace. We hope the next iteration will add suggestions for inner and rear leer cameras. To be taught more seek the advice of with Garmin’s web online page online.

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