Senwow GS8000 1080P Dash Cam

This well presented £29.99 dashcam from Senwow arrived in a simple but stylish generic box. Inside was the camera itself, car power cable, short USB cable, suction cup mount, sticky mount base, cord clip set, USB card reader and User Guide. The User Guide is vastly superior compared to those usually supplied and well printed on good quality paper. I attach a scan of it to my unboxing video. Switch to full screen and pause as needed to read it.

Insurance fraud is on the rise and one way of protecting yourself from driving-related scams is to install a dashcam. Dashcams are positioned discreetly pointing forwards through the front window. The dashcam turns on automatically when the car is started and off a few seconds after the engine is turned off. It records continuously in short clips onto a memory card that seamlessly dovetails them together when played back. When the card is full the camera records over the oldest recording. A good camera will have a built-in G-Sensor which automatically records impacts and locks that file against overwriting.

The camera is medium sized and has a 2.7” LCD screen. The camera attaches to the windscreen with the supplied suction mount and in my tests, this worked well. Like most cameras this one has a built-in battery which is designed only to allow the device to power down safely and to give short-term coverage should the car power supply fail in the event of a crash. For normal operation, it should always be powered from the car power port. The camera has a speaker and microphone which is useful in an incident if you have the presence of mind to observe and announce number plates or external events not captured by the camera. The dashcam has a G-sensor, a must for any dashcam, which will ensure that impacts or other events are not overwritten by other recordings on the card. The camera takes a micro SD card of up to 32GB to record onto and you must get a good quality high-speed card. Class 10 is best if a card is too slow the ..