Bad Cam
I bought a motion-activated camera from Amazon. This one, to be specific: https://www.amazon.com/Campark-Camera-24MP-Bluetooth-Monitoring-Waterproof/dp/B08QJ86479
It arrived yesterday. Today, I wrote this review of it:
The problems started the moment I unboxed this camera. The little bits of plastic that cover the lenses were difficult to peel away, which I should have taken as a warning.
I opened the instructions and discovered they were clearly written by someone for whom English is a (distant) second language. Instructions were incomplete or utterly impossible to understand due to grammatical errors. I downloaded the app and it was equally horrible. (The app's header, I might add, was in Chinese characters.) I give kudos to anyone who speaks more than one language, but when you're marketing to native English speakers, you should hire a native to write your directions.
The camera also wouldn't connect to the app. In fact, it wouldn't connect to anything. When I called up the camera's menu and told it to connect to WiFi, all it did was display "WiFi password 1234546." The app itself didn't ask for the camera's password. And there was no way to input my WiFi's password into the camera.
When I tried to connect the camera to my phone (and the app) via bluetooth, the app sent me to the privacy settings section of my phone. It wouldn't do anything at all, let alone actually connect to the camera. The camera acted like my phone's bluetooth didn't exist.
Meanwhile, the camera itself wouldn't record video or take photos. I tested it several times. Nothing. Not a single photo, not a second of video.
I returned it. DO NOT BUY this camera!
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It arrived yesterday. Today, I wrote this review of it:
The problems started the moment I unboxed this camera. The little bits of plastic that cover the lenses were difficult to peel away, which I should have taken as a warning.
I opened the instructions and discovered they were clearly written by someone for whom English is a (distant) second language. Instructions were incomplete or utterly impossible to understand due to grammatical errors. I downloaded the app and it was equally horrible. (The app's header, I might add, was in Chinese characters.) I give kudos to anyone who speaks more than one language, but when you're marketing to native English speakers, you should hire a native to write your directions.
The camera also wouldn't connect to the app. In fact, it wouldn't connect to anything. When I called up the camera's menu and told it to connect to WiFi, all it did was display "WiFi password 1234546." The app itself didn't ask for the camera's password. And there was no way to input my WiFi's password into the camera.
When I tried to connect the camera to my phone (and the app) via bluetooth, the app sent me to the privacy settings section of my phone. It wouldn't do anything at all, let alone actually connect to the camera. The camera acted like my phone's bluetooth didn't exist.
Meanwhile, the camera itself wouldn't record video or take photos. I tested it several times. Nothing. Not a single photo, not a second of video.
I returned it. DO NOT BUY this camera!
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