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Nexar One: One-minute overview
The Nexar One is a 4K sprint cam that employs a intelligent modular design and an always-on LTE knowledge connection to supply computerized cloud uploads with limitless storage, wi-fi video switch, and distant streaming. It may be purchased with both 128GB or 256GB of inner storage, however there is no microSD card help. Rear and inner cameras are additionally obtainable.
Limitless cloud storage and reside streaming for as little as $71.90 a 12 months looks like good worth, however the One is reliant on a powerful mobile sign to work correctly; in case you have patchy 4G at residence, this won’t be the sprint cam for you.
Nexar One: worth & availability
The Nexar One is priced from $329.95 for the 128GB mannequin (which may maintain as much as 37 hours of recordings), or from $379.95 for the 256GB mannequin (which has house for as much as 78 hours). Including the inside digicam featured on this overview will increase these costs to $379.95 and $429.95 respectively.
Nexar’s LTE Safety Plan prices $9.99 a month or $71.90 a 12 months. This contains the flexibility to reside stream from the sprint cam to your cellphone, plus limitless cloud storage, a 24/7 parking mode, real-time GPS monitoring, emergency alerts, and rear digicam compatibility.
Nexar says the One can be obtainable within the UK quickly, however hadn’t introduced costs on the time of overview in June 2025. The price of the LTE Safety Plan can also be unknown for now, and the One is just not obtainable in Australia.
Nexar One: specs
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Video |
4K decision at 25 to 30 frames per second |
Row 0 – Cell 2 | Row 0 – Cell 3 |
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Discipline of view (FoV) |
140 levels (forwards), 160 levels (inside) |
Row 1 – Cell 2 | Row 1 – Cell 3 |
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Storage |
Inside (128GB or 256GB), cloud (limitless, charges apply) |
Row 2 – Cell 2 | Row 2 – Cell 3 |
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GPS |
Sure |
Row 3 – Cell 2 | Row 3 – Cell 3 |
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Parking Mode |
Sure, with distant streaming |
Row 4 – Cell 2 | Row 4 – Cell 3 |
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App help |
Nexar Join app |
Row 5 – Cell 2 | Row 5 – Cell 3 |
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Dimensions |
3.5 x 2.75 x 1.2 inches / 88.9 x 69.8 x 30.5mm |
Row 6 – Cell 2 | Row 6 – Cell 3 |
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Weight |
7.4oz / 210g |
Row 7 – Cell 2 | Row 7 – Cell 3 |
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Battery |
Sure, used to document parking occasions |
Row 8 – Cell 2 | Row 8 – Cell 3 |
Nexar One: Design
The Nexar One is a intelligent piece of design, so far as sprint cams go. It doesn’t have a display screen, so there’s no probability of being distracted when you’re driving, and the unit itself is comparatively slim, however with the LTE knowledge module and inside digicam related, it’s fairly giant.
The intelligent bit is how the Nexar One makes use of magnets. Firstly, it connects to its windshield mount with a really robust magnet. You then stick the mount to your windshield with an adhesive strip, and an influence cable runs from the mount to your automotive’s OBD2 port for a relentless energy provide, even when it’s parked and turned off. Energy is then despatched to the sprint cam itself as quickly because the magnets snap it into place.
There are extra magnets on both aspect of the primary unit. You possibly can take away a canopy from one finish to connect what Nexar calls the connectivity add-on, which is principally an LTE (4G) antenna that offers the sprint cam a mobile knowledge connection for reside streaming to your cellphone and cloud video storage – extra on that later.
Eradicating the duvet from the opposite finish permits you join the non-obligatory inside digicam, which offered individually however was additionally supplied by Nexar for this overview. Total, it’s a intelligent design that is been properly executed, and I particularly like how Nexar contains an OBD2 cable within the field, moderately than a USB cable and a 12-volt socket adapter.
As talked about, there’s no microSD card slot, with the One relying fully on inner storage.
Nexar One: Efficiency
The setup course of requires the Nexar Join smartphone app and, for the sprint cam, a good 4G connection. Though I reside in London, my road has terrible mobile protection, so it wasn’t a shock to see the One fail to get itself on-line. I drove about half a mile, parked up, and the sprint cam then rapidly related to Nexar’s cloud service and accomplished the setup course of.
Whereas video high quality is a very powerful facet of any sprint cam, there’s extra to this mannequin than video recording. You need to use both the Nexar Join app or Nexar’s on-line dashboard to view each journey accomplished with the One put in. Your driving route is proven on a map, together with the space and period of your journey. It’s then straightforward to both view a low-resolution timelapse of a journey, or obtain a high-resolution portion.
If you happen to’re away out of your automotive (and subsequently not related on to the sprint cam by way of Wi-Fi), you’ll be able to view the mapped routes and timelapses. And, when you can request to obtain a high-res portion of between 30 seconds and 5 minutes, the obtain gained’t occur till the following time you flip your automotive on. As an alternative, it’s finest to get in your automotive, join on to the sprint cam over Wi-Fi, and switch high-res recordings to your cellphone.
One other function is reside streaming, the place the Nexar One’s LTE connection helps you to view a reside feed from the sprint cam in your cellphone. This takes about 30 seconds to start out and when utilizing LTE (as a substitute of a direct Wi-Fi connection) you’re restricted to a few minutes of reside viewing at a time. That is comprehensible, given how a lot knowledge could be swallowed up by longer streams. It’s a useful technique to investigate cross-check your automotive, and means you’ll be able to view a reside feed proper after the sprint cam detects a collision whereas parked, as it can mechanically begin recording.
Since I reside in an space with patchy mobile protection, some driving routes and timelapses did not add immediately. This course of occurs after you park up, whereas the sprint cam is powering down, however a poor knowledge connection can cease the add from occurring. The downloads are then unavailable till the following time you flip your automotive on and drive to an space with higher sign.
If you happen to reside and principally drive in an space with robust LTE protection you’ll be advantageous, but when not – and also you wish to often use the Nexar One’s related options – you’ll must assume twice about shopping for it. The Nexar One is designed to hook up with a spread of networks, as a substitute of only one, so it ought to all the time hunt out one of the best sign. However I discovered it generally failed to attach, particularly in recognized blackspots.
Incidents – the place the sprint cam detects a collision, both whereas parked or driving – are sorted into their very own part of the app and dashboard, making them straightforward to seek out.
The app helps you to decide from three video high quality choices, however frustratingly these use names – Primary, Commonplace and Premium – as a substitute of recognizable numbers, like 1080p or 4K. Tapping on ‘Study extra’ opens Nexar’s web site and explains that Primary is 720p (and 540p for the inside view), Commonplace is 1080p (and 720p for the inside), and Premium is 4K (plus 720p once more for the inside).
Commonplace is the default possibility. These Full HD recordings look nice on the cellphone app, however high quality takes a dip when blown up onto a bigger laptop display screen. Footage is okay, however particulars just like the license plates of oncoming autos, even at simply 20mph in shiny daylight, are sometimes troublesome to learn.
Bump the Nexar One as much as Premium and the 4K movies are noticeably sharper, with extra legible license plates and road indicators. Recordsdata are additionally bigger, with a five-minute clip weighing in at 1.5GB from the front-facing digicam and 360MB from the lower-spec inside view.
The bigger measurement of 4K information highlights the Nexar One’s gradual Wi-Fi switch speeds. Transferring these five-minute, 1.5GB and 360MB clips to my iPhone, over a direct Wi-Fi connection, took a full 5 minutes.
The inside digicam is of a decrease spec, however nonetheless supplies a good view of the driving force and front-seat passenger. Since I drive a small two-seater (a Mazda Miata, or MX-5 for non-US readers), this digicam manages to seize an appropriate view out of the rear windshield too. Nevertheless, on account of my automotive’s tiny entrance windshield, I’ve needed to partially disguise the Nexar One behind the mirror, which blocks a number of the digicam’s inside view.
If I purchased the Nexar One myself, and nonetheless owned a automotive tight on house, I’d possible do with out the inside digicam. That stated, should you’re a taxi or ride-share driver, having recordings of your inside (and an indication telling your passengers as a lot) might be helpful.
Lastly, there’s a parking mode. This works when the Nexar One is related both with the included OBD II cable, or the non-obligatory hardwiring cable that powers it from the fuse field. When a collision is detected, the digicam springs into life and begins recording. These movies seem in chronological order within the app, however can solely be downloaded once you subsequent swap your automotive on – and as long as the digicam has a great mobile connection.
Parking mode, limitless cloud storage, reside streaming and different capabilities – together with emergency alerts, GPS monitoring and rear digicam compatibility – are all a part of a subscription plan. That is priced at $9.99 a month or $71.90 for a full 12 months. Though the Nexar One works like some other offline sprint cam with out this payment, storing footage regionally, not subscribing removes a lot of its performance. If you happen to don’t wish to pay for a subscription, you’d be higher off shopping for a distinct sprint cam.
That stated, I can see the worth right here – particularly should you reside in an space with strong mobile protection. Having movies obtainable on-line, by the app or any laptop browser, takes away the same old sprint cam ache level of getting to eject the microSD card and switch footage manually. I additionally like the concept of with the ability to examine in on my automotive whereas I am away from residence, however my native mobile protection made that difficult.
The sprint cam sometimes despatched cellphone notifications, promising extra info when tapped. However doing so merely opened the app and confirmed me the house display screen. It additionally generally advised me a recording was in course of (whereas the automotive was parked and switched off), then saved a five-minute journey within the Exercise web page of the app. Tapping on this introduced up a web page stuffed with error messages, a map with no indication of the place the automotive was, and the promise of a timelapse and high-res clip being “obtainable shortly”.
Nexar advised me it has had some points with a latest firmware replace, however after reinstalling the most recent firmware I nonetheless skilled connectivity issues. The One connects to a number of cellphone networks, however plainly none may present the protection it wanted to operate the place I reside. It labored advantageous elsewhere, however poor sign at residence takes away a piece of the One’s performance.
I requested Nexar if it may be connect with residence Wi-Fi for video uploads and firmware updates however, and was advised that whereas that is on the roadmap, there is no timeline for launch.
Nexar One: Pattern movies
Entrance digicam
Inside digicam
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How I examined the Nexar One
- I put in the Nexar One in my very own automotive
- I used the sprint cam throughout a number of journeys over the course of every week
- I downloaded footage, adjusted settings and experimented with the reside streaming operate.
I put in the Nexar One in my automotive and used it as my sprint cam for a couple of week. I used it on quite a few journeys, and recorded footage each time I used my automotive. I then downloaded (and uploaded) footage from the sprint cam to examine its recording high quality, and used the reside streaming operate to see how nicely that labored.