GARMIN MINI 2 DASH CAM REVIEW 1080P

Instead of a suction cup mount, the Dash Cam 55 comes with a tiny metal plate you stick to your windscreen. It lacks none of the essentials and it’s super easy to mount, too. Like most decent dash cams it also has embedded GPS, which it uses to overlay speed and location data on your videos, and it has an accelerometer (G sensor) for detecting and automatically protecting clips where it thinks an incident has occurred.

GARMIN MINI 2 DASH CAM REVIEW 1080P

The camera has a 2in screen at the rear (non-touch), comes with a removable polarising filter to cut out the glare of the sun and shoots video at 1,440p at 30fps (2,560 x 1,440), 1080p at 60fps or 1080p at 30fps with HDR enabled. Designed to look like a miniature action camera, its body is no larger than a box of matches and while the lens housing protrudes from the front, it does so by less than a centimetre. The Garmin Dash Cam 55 is the smallest, neatest dash cam I’ve come across. READ NEXT: The best dash cams you can buy Garmin Dash Cam 55 review: What you need to know It’s this central dilemma that Garmin’s Dash Cam 55 aims to solve – or at least ameliorate – with the addition of a clutch of extra features, aimed at helping you drive more safely. On the other, owning one could get you in trouble if it’s all your fault. On the one hand, if you crash and it isn’t your fault a dash cam provides essential peace of mind and important evidence.

The dash cam is a curate’s egg of a product.

Garmin mini 2 dash cam review