The above picture is taken from JD.COM e-commerce page.
On the way to the in-vehicle electronic products, the old Internet company 360 chose the driving recorder that best meets its safety temperament as the breakthrough point, and quickly became the first in sales. The latest product S800 intelligent cloud Mirror is the latest work of high-end product line. Uncle Long was lucky enough to try and evaluate the 360 S800 intelligent cloud Mirror. What is his experience? Let's take a look.
Market situation
Before contacting the 360 S800, Uncle Long used many kinds of driving recorders, and also contacted rearview mirror products, and had some reservations about rearview mirror products, mainly because most rearview mirror products on the market did not find a good balance between mirror and screen. First of all, limited by the long and narrow shape of rearview mirror, the cost of full screen is too high, and it is difficult for small screen to carry rich functions; Secondly, most of them choose Android system and optimize the touch screen. The fingerprints left after touching will affect the effect of the rearview mirror itself as a mirror.
Appearance display: simple unpacking
So how did the 360 S800 do it? Let's take a closer look outside the box. S800 adopts the very popular "borderless" mirror, which has excellent overall visual sense. Almost 100% of the front area is mirrored. An 8.8-inch IPS screen is hidden under the mirror. The official said that it completely fits the screen, and the sense of integration from the lighting effect is really good.
The 8.8-inch screen does not cover the whole mirror, but it covers about 80% of the area. I think 360 is fully capable of making a full-screen rearview mirror product, but the cost is too high. The main functions of the official S800 are streaming rearview mirror, intelligent voice interaction, remote parking monitoring and ADAS advanced driver assistance. In order to support rich functions, the hardware configuration must be cost-effective. The CPU adopts MediaTek automobile-grade 8665 processor, which matches 2GB of running memory and 4GB of internal storage space, and supports 4G mobile Internet. In terms of software, the 360 OS for CAR operating system specially developed for streaming media rearview mirror products is also based on Android, so we have no difficulty in getting started. Combined with 360' s experience in the IT field, the system runs very smoothly, the APP starts quickly and runs very smoothly.
Function list (taken from JD.COM e-commerce page)
Since the streaming media rearview mirror recorder is the first, the hardware configuration of the recorder is also very important. 1080P front camera is directly fixed on the mirror body, and the angle can be freely adjusted in multiple directions. The 720P rear camera is a split structure, which needs to be connected by a special data cable and can be freely arranged at any position. In order to hide, Uncle Long chose to stick the rear camera on the rear windshield, so that it can't be seen outside, and there is no need to remove the license plate light.
The attached satellite positioning antenna supports the dual positioning of the US GPS and China Beidou. The measured positioning speed is very fast. More than 12 satellites can be found in fine weather with high accuracy. Both SIM card slot and MicroSD slot have card insertion direction prompts.
In order to realize the remote parking monitoring function, the S800 has a built-in 470mAh lithium battery, and the official data can stand by for about 18 hours. The self-contained charging head is 5V2A specification, which shows that S800 has high requirements for power supply, and the manual also suggests that some functions will be automatically suspended if the power supply is insufficient.
In order to ensure the stability of the lithium battery and the whole system, S800 has made a lot of heat dissipation enhancements, with metal fins on the back and cooling holes on the bottom. The bottom is also provided with a microphone, a reset key and a multifunctional switch. S800 is installed with straps, which are fixed on the rearview mirror of the original car through two elastic rubber belts, which is a nondestructive installation. As can be seen from the figure, the visible area of the original car has increased a lot.
Use evaluation
Uncle Long can't wait to install it, because he has installed his own driving recorder before, so it is not a problem to take the route. After a fierce operation, S800 got on the bus smoothly. Uncle Long's car is Nissan Nida GTS, and the rear windshield is black privacy glass with black 3M explosion-proof membrane. Not only can't you see the inside from the outside, but it is also dark from the inside. It can be said that it has its own anti-glare effect, but the fly in the ointment is that the rear view is not good, especially at night. So I heard that S800' s main function is the rearview mirror function of streaming media, and suddenly I felt the gospel came.
Before installation, I was worried about whether the privacy glass would affect the imaging effect of the rear camera. At the moment of power-on, this concern was completely dispelled, the picture of the rear camera was completely unaffected, and the details such as the license plate number of the rear car were unobstructed. In particular, this lens also supports HDR and the night scene has been improved.
As for imaging, the old rule is to speak directly from the proofs. Streaming media camera not only records video, but displays the video picture on the screen in real time, thus eliminating the obstruction of rearview mirror light when sitting in the back row, but directly displaying the real-time image of the rear car. This technology is not only practical, but also extends the field of view of optical lenses. It is worth mentioning here that the picture delay of the front and rear cameras is very low, and the front camera is mainly used for video recording, so the problem of picture delay is not big, but the rear camera is used to display the rear view picture after all. If the delay is large, the significance of streaming media will be lost. Fortunately, the 360 S800 has achieved low delay in this respect through high-standard hardware.
Take this picture of the 720P rear camera as an example. The 8.8-inch screen is a fish screen with a long and narrow picture. The rear camera has a wide viewing angle. The official data is 1 10 degrees. In order to adapt to different user habits, the picture of the rear camera can be enlarged or compressed. When choosing compression, the picture adapts to the screen shape, and there will be some slight deformation, but the camera can see it from all angles; After zooming in, a scroll bar will appear on the right side of the screen. We can drag up and down to select the details of the picture that need to be seen clearly. Uncle Long prefers zoom-in mode. When driving normally, he can directly look at the picture behind the car, and when reversing, he can choose to look at the picture at the rear of the car, which is similar to the reversing image, killing two birds with one stone. (You can see the difference between the two modes through the rear wiper. )
The resolution of the front camera 1080P is high enough, the dark image is still clear, and it is also the data source of ADAS. Before using the ADAS function, it is necessary to correct the camera position according to the prompts. ADAS not only needs the camera to distinguish the car in front, but also needs to see the road lane in front. The function of ADAS supports the warning of vehicle start-up, collision and lane departure, and can be turned on separately. Since there are no vehicles that don't take the bus, the function of this ADAS is limited to voice warning, so it is not recommended to rely too much on this function.
Wonderful barrage, all in the client?
A gentleman uses his tongue.
One of the pain points of rearview mirror products mentioned at the beginning of the article is the problem of fingerprint residue. In fact, speech recognition can reduce hand touch operations and reduce fingerprints. S800' s intelligent voice interaction is similar to our smart speaker and SIRI, and the wake-up word of voice recognition is: "Hello, buddy." This is very common in all intelligent hardware products with voice control system, such as 360 mobile phones, cloud mirror and sweeping robots. S800 In order to better adapt to the driving scene, there is also the so-called OneShot voice, which is actually a one-sentence instruction, avoiding the tedious operation of asking and answering questions every time waiting for the voice assistant to wake up. The two videos of voice operation can obviously compare the differences between the two voice wake-up experiences.
Wonderful barrage, all in the client?
Wonderful barrage, all in the client?
Most fixed instructions can be recognized offline, and the recognition speed and accuracy are still very good, but more natural semantic recognition and online functions need to be connected to the mobile Internet. The SIM card that comes with it has 2GB of free traffic, which needs real-name authentication before activation. After the traffic runs out, you can directly scan the code in the rearview mirror to recharge. Of course, you can also switch to your own traffic card or simply use WIFI signal to surf the Internet. After all, mainstream mobile phones support WIFI hotspots. However, Uncle Long still recommends that you give it a 4G SIM card. Why don't we talk about it later?
Built-in high-tech map car mirror version, Himalayan FM, cool dog music and so on. , the experience is good, has been connected to the voice interactive system, and some operations can be carried out by mouth. Especially for the particularity of the car mirror, both the car mirror version of Gaode map and Cool Dog Music are adapted to the special information screen display, and the navigation information can also be displayed in the state of streaming media.
Cloud-based security features
As mentioned above, it is recommended to install 4G SIM card on S800, mainly because S800, as the cloud word of intelligent cloud Mirror, is embodied in cloud services.
S800 has built-in lawyer consultation service and emergency function, and you can consult a lawyer directly through cloud mirror at the rate of 6 yuan/min. An emergency is a coded voice activation. When the driver encounters an emergency and it is inconvenient to operate cloud mirror, he can say "open sesame". Cloud mirror will automatically send a text message to the designated contact person with location information, which is very practical when driving alone in distress. Don't think this function is flashy. It is worthy of our vigilance to enjoy frequent risk events, so we should nip in the bud. Of course, these two functions need a built-in 4G card to achieve the best experience.
As mentioned earlier, parking monitoring can last about 18 hours. In this process, once there is a collision sound, the recorder will start shooting urgently and upload the picture to the cloud, so users can observe the real-time picture through the mobile APP.
On the other hand, every time the car mirror automatically enters the parking safety mode, it will automatically take a photo of GPS coordinates with the front and rear cameras and upload it to the cloud. Users can see these two photos and parking location through the mobile APP, and they can also call the map APP on the mobile phone to walk and navigate to find a car, which is very convenient.