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Your car’s rearview mirror is an in-car entertainment system with Bluetooth Rearview Mirror Kit

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These days, technology is improving drastically. A rear view mirror integrated with Bluetooth, GPS and few other significant features, is forming the latest trend in automobiles. The necessary components for this system is available as a kit. In fact, this kit could be positioned easily by the user himself, as it perfectly replaces the standard rear view mirror without complications. The manufacturer also claims that, this kit will be one of the safest gadgets available for all types of cars. This product has become much successful in China, and slowly making heads turn towards it from other countries too.

First look

This Rearview Mirror Kit looks very similar to any of the standard rear view mirror. However, the presence of the touch screen feature on one side of the rear view mirror brings the significant difference. In fact, the touch screen separates the actual rear view mirror. The buttons for accessing various options are embedded on the sides of the mirror panel. More often, these buttons are found at the bottom side of the mirror kit for easy access by the end user. Certain manufacturers integrate a video camera in the rear view mirror itself, like the one described in the image above, which helps us to capture videos, inside and outside the car. However, this feature will be highly utilized only in case of an emergency or during investigations.

The machine

The Rearview Mirror Kit has a 4.3 inch TFT Touch Screen, featuring various multi-media options. This screen possess a resolution of 480*272 pixels. To mention, microphones and speakers are integrated with the mirror itself. The DVR feature allow us to record videos in two different resolutions as 640*480 or 320*240 pixels at the speed of 30 fps. The micro-SD card’s port is provided at the back side while the Standard SD card’s port is available on one of the corners of the mirror panel. The product shown in the image possess a Centrality Atlas 4 Dual core, 500 MHz processor powered by a SiRF Atlas VI chip while the plug-in provision for the GPS antenna is present at the top of the mirror panel.

What’s good?

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The integration of a Bluetooth system along with the rear view mirror is a laudable feature, as it allows to make and attend calls over your phone easily, and in a safer way. The driver doesn’t need to turn his/her head away from the road. The presence of the Digital Video Recorder allows you to monitor your kid’s driving skills and behavior on roads. It will be helpful during emergency situations also. The availability of a rear view camera without wires, will assist the driver in parking the vehicle easily, even with tight gaps. It also eliminates the blind spots which are prevailed with the conventional methods. The other major advantage of this kit is the availability of voice enabled GPS feature which is integrated with the mirror panel itself.

What’s not so good?

Whatever changes are made to improve the ways of making mobile communications safer, in the form of wireless and Bluetooth technologies, they divert the driver’s concentration mentally, more than physically. That’s why fatal accidents still persists due to the use of mobile phones, even while sophisticated features are implemented on cars. It is always better to avoid mobile communications while driving cars. The presence of gaming features on this rear view mirror kit further distracts the driver, when stuck with boring situations like heavy traffic, and during stop signals.

Accessories

The Rearview Mirror Kit described in the image above contains the mirror panel along with a GPS antenna, power charger and power cables, rear view camera, screws to hold the mirror in position, memory cards and the user manual.

Things to watch out for

The usefulness of the GPS feature depends on the availability of GPS software for your locations. However, the kit is compatible with most of the famous brands of GPS software. The DVR feature could record videos in various formats that includes AVI, MOV, ASF, WMV, MP4 and also, supports image formats like JPG, GIF, BMP and PNG.

Price and availability

China’s well known online seller ‘Chinavasion’ offers this Rearview Mirror Kit for around $200, with 4 GB micro SD and 4GB SD memory cards as freebies. This company also offers good discounts for bulk orders. This product is targeted to increase its sales through Ebay. Check the online seller’s website to find the availability of this kit in your location.

The bottom line

The Rearview Mirror Kit with its sophisticated features, makes your driving experiences merrier.

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