Customer Ratings & Reviews

This uses our Amazon account to provide music and GPS, along with the camera. Love it!

It’s an good product it’s taking a little time to get use to the small screen and verbal directions I have not used the other applications yet so cannot speak too them

I love this dash cam. Videos are clear, directions are clear and i love the fact it notifies me when i'm close to a car

Works just like advertised. Def better options out there

This product is overall a mixed bag. There were times where I loved it and times where I hated it. Here is my experience. Upon unboxing, I expected more. This is not bad but I just assumed the product would be larger and have more in the box. This thing is tiny! There is some manuals, the unit, the mounting base and a charger in the box. 8GB of MicroSD memory are preinstalled in the device. Installing in the car is a mixed bag. Placing it in the upper left part of my windshield it was out of the way but then I had to worry about the cabling. The adaptor has a long cord but it plugs into the right side of the unit. This just doesn't make sense to me as it just seems as if the cord should be on the left side to better aid in cable management. The cable is meant to be routed in the trim of the car and routed to the the charging port. This just felt kind of lazy to me. A better solution would have been allow for charging and put a battery in the unit with at least a few hours of use. There is no battery in the unit and you will have to live with the cable. It mounts to the windshield we an adhesive sticker that really sticks! I honestly have no clue how to get this thing off without a heat gun so make sure you put it in a spot you are happy with. Once you place the adhesive part on the windshield you can detach that part as it connect to the unit itself via a magnet if you switch cars or need to get the SD card out. If you care about how things look in your car you might be annoyed by all of this, others might not. Setup wasn’t too bad but there are a few issues. You must download the Garmin Speak app and if you want to view camera feed you must download another Garmin app. I was using this with a Apple iPhone X which doesn’t seem to play together too well in my experience. I tied the device to my Amazon account for Alexa integration but skills seemed rather finicky. First, in order to use the app you need to have the Speak app open. I assume that due to Apple’s multitasking management, I had to reopen the app from time to time. I did not have this issue when I tried it on my wife’s Android phone. I was excited to use Alexa to play Spotify and Sirius XM in my car easily without using my phone as I would do at home on my Alexa speaker, but it did not work as easily as I assumed. I had to re-pair Sirius XM to Alexa to get that skill working with the Garmin and it repeatedly told me that Spotify was not supported. As for normal use and navigation. I found that if you start a navigartion sentence as “Alexa, ask Garmin what time I will reach my destination”, it works just fine. If I just say “Alexa, what time will I reach my destination” it gets confused and looks up flight info that didn’t exist. It makes sense since Garmin is a skill but it is easy to forget. The display is great on the device. It is off in a spot that it doesnt distract you and when you need it it is clear and to the point. The color ring assists in displaying what is happening. Green means I might be getting close to the turn, blue is listening, orange is an alert and so on. Speaking of alerts, these were interesting. The device features lane departure warnings and collision detection. My car I tested it on initially has this as built in so I was able to compare accuracy. Lane departure wasn’t too bad but it gave me a lot of false alarms when I was in a long turn. I tested it on a empty road and got toward a line which triggered it ok. I think the errors were due to the placement of the device and it is using only one camera to make a decision so there is no depth information. Collision detection was hard to test since I never had any pending accidents but there were a few false alarms from cars slowing down on the highway. It did not trigger an alert in my car and there was no safety issue so maybe it wouldn’t have triggered if I lowered the sensitivity. As a dash cam it works pretty good! My only gripe is that the app has to connect via wifi. But, if there was an issue you could always just take the device out and pull the file straight off the SD card. It is small and is always recording, including interior audio. The Garmin is great for entertaining the kid of course too with a simple Alexa fact or joke. I got to test it driving to an island up north and it was a mixed bag. If I was in the city it was great! Navigation worked most of the time with quick redirection if needed (only issue was when I had to restart the speak app). As I got more toward nature the device was essentially useless if there was no cell signal and I had to rely on my car’s GPS. At the end of the day I do recommend this product if you have a need for it. If your car is fairly modern and you care about the wiring in your car, I would say ignore it. If you have a car that is a little older (with bluetooth), dont have GPS (or old maps) and wants some upgraded safety features, get this! If nothing else it is an awesome dash cam as well! That is why I give it a 3 out of five. There are a lot of bugs but it has a lot of usefulness as well. It was hard to love it but hard to hate it.

This is a great little companion on those long road trips. This device tells you jokes, short stories, sings, raps, etc.. all from voice command.

I’ve used this product and haven’t had any problems with it

Great product, everything that I wanted and more. Thanks Best Buy

I use it all the time in my truck as a GPS and using it to listen to music with a voice control . Is a plus

Found it nice to have Alexa in the car. I like the way it display the directions, but felt cancelling directions was a pain in the butt.

Love this product. Play music and get directions plus a dash cam. Great for the cost!

When my dash cam died, I decided to try the Garmin. No internal battery so it will die if not plugged into a USB that is not on battery. If you idle for 15 minutes it will go into standby mode which will require a manual reboot. The Wifi access does not feel stable so you will wait for ten minutes before it will kick you off or finally show your videos. The navigation is extremely limited with no details or map. Alexa hardly works even the app is open. The speaker has no true control. Do not buy. I hope I can return this.

I love the ability to use Alexa in my vehicle without having to use my phone.

Use it everyday. Easy to use and is very useful. Very sleek and easy to install

It works just like alexa indoors but outside. Not annoying

This is so great to have in my car! I love it. Totally worth every penny!

This is perfect,it is all three a camera,amazons alexa, and a gps. It is pricey at 200 dollars but worth it.

Gives me good alerts and is good for hands free TELEPHONE calls, but nothing else due to poor "connectivety".

This Amazon Alexa have build in dash camera with voice control is awesome

Absolutely amazing in the car... video is super clear..I love it