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Type
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Test results
CHOICE Expert Rating
Sound performance score
Ease of use score
Overall picture performance score
Daylight picture performance score
Dim light picture performance score
Dark light picture performance score
Sound range score
Sound sensitivity and sound quality score
Immunity from interference score
Comments
Good points
- Good maximum sound level at the carer end
- Viewer is an app on your smartphone
- 2.4GHz WiFi connectivity: reception range is excellent (as wide as your home network)
- Very good picture quality in daylight and dim light conditions
- Very good maximum sound level at the carer end
- Very good ease of use
- Can be viewed on a smartphone and a PC concurrently
- Picture, sound, motion, temperature and humidity monitor
- Optional sleep sensor pad available
- Uses a smartphone carer unit, can be viewed anywhere within Wi-Fi range
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Very good picture quality in daylight, good picture quality in dim lighting
- Photos or video can be saved to smartphone
- Picture, sound, motion and temperature monitor
- Uses a smartphone carer unit, can be viewed anywhere within Wi-Fi range
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Very good picture quality in daylight, good picture quality in dim and dark lighting
- Photos or video can be saved to a Micro SD
- Viewer is an app on your smartphone
- 2.4GHz WiFi connectivity: reception range is excellent (as wide as your home network)
- Excellent sound sensitivity and quality
- Good picture quality in daylight and dim light conditions
- Excellent maximum sound level at the carer end
- Good ease of use
- Motion and sound activated viewing screen
- Can be viewed by a number of concurrent users
- Remote viewing access to camera via 3G or 4G
- Picture, sound, and temperature monitor
- Excellent picture quality in daylight, good picture quality in dim and dark lighting
- Picture, sound, and temperature monitor
- Very good picture quality in daylight, good picture quality in dim and dark lighting
- Photos can be saved to a Micro SD
- Picture, sound, and motion monitor
- Optional temperature sensor available
- Uses a smartphone carer unit, can be viewed anywhere within Wi-Fi range
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Very good picture quality in daylight and dim lighting, good picture quality in dark lighting
- Photos can be saved to smartphone
- Picture, sound, motion, temperature and humidity monitor
- Uses a smartphone carer unit, can be viewed anywhere within Wi-Fi range
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Excellent picture quality in daylight and dim lighting, very good picture quality in dark lighting
- Photos or video can be saved to smartphone
- Bundle comes with night light and cot light
- Picture, sound and motion monitor
- Uses a smartphone carer unit, can be viewed anywhere within Wi-Fi range
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Excellent picture quality in daylight, very good picture quality in dim lighting, good picture quality in dark lighting
- Photos or video can be saved to Micro SD/smartphone
- Temperature monitoring
- Plays a tune
- Excellent immunity from interference (microwave had no effect on audio signal)
- Has a nightlight
- Very easy to set up and use
- Picture, sound, and temperature monitor
- Very good picture quality in daylight, good picture quality in dim and dark lighting
- Picture, sound, motion, temperature and humidity monitor
- Uses a smartphone carer unit, can be viewed anywhere within Wi-Fi range
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Very good sound sensitivity and quality
- Very good picture quality in daylight and dim lighting, good picture quality in dark lighting
- Photos or video can be saved to smartphone
- Picture, sound, motion, temperature and humidity monitor
- Uses a smartphone carer unit, can be viewed anywhere within Wi-Fi range
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Very good picture quality in daylight, good picture quality in dim lighting
- Photos or video can be saved to smartphone
- Sound and picture monitor.
- Temperature monitoring.
- "Talk to baby" feature.
- Plays a tune.
- Night light.
- Picture zoom.
- Very easy to set up and use.
- Up to 4 cameras can be viewed with the monitor.
- Viewer is an app on your smartphone
- 2.4 and 5 GHz WiFi connectivity: reception range is excellent (as wide as your home network)
- Very good picture quality in daylight and dim light conditions
- Excellent maximum sound level at the carer end
- Good ease of use
- Can be viewed by a number of concurrent users
- Remote viewing access to camera via 3G
- Picture, sound, motion, temperature and humidity monitor
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Very good sound sensitivity and quality
- Excellent picture quality in daylight and dim lighting, very good picture quality in dark lighting
- Can record photos and videos to an SD card
- Picture, sound, motion, temperature and humidity monitor
- Uses a smartphone carer unit, can be viewed anywhere within Wi-Fi range
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Very good sound sensitivity and quality
- Excellent picture quality in daylight, very good in dim lighting, and good in dark lighting
- Photos or video can be saved to smartphone
- Very good sound range
- Excellent immunity from interference (microwave had no effect on audio signal)
- Very easy to set up and use
- Camera pan and tilt control
- Easy to set up and use
- Sound and picture monitor.
- Temperature monitor with alarm.
- "Talk to baby" feature.
- Plays a tune.
- Night light.
- Picture zoom.
- Sound and picture monitor.
- Temperature monitoring.
- "Talk to baby" feature.
- Plays a tune.
- Night light.
- Picture zoom.
- Very easy to set up and use.
- Video can be recorded on a micro SD card.
- Up to 4 cameras can be viewed with the monitor.
- Video can be remotely viewed via Skype.
- Camera provided, app required for viewing
- 2.4GHz WiFi connectivity: reception range is excellent (as wide as your home network)
- Very good sound quality
- Very good picture quality in daylight and the dark, good picture quality in dim lighting
- Good maximum sound level at the carer end
- Good ease of use
- Can be viewed by a number of concurrent users
- Has a night light and can play three lullabies or white noise to the baby
- Photos or video can be saved to a Micro SD
- Remote viewing access to camera via the internet
- Camera provided, app required for viewing
- 2.4GHz WiFi connectivity: reception range is excellent (as wide as your home network)
- Very good sound quality and good sound sensitivity
- Good picture sensitivity and quality (daylight, dim and dark)
- Good ease of use
- Has a night light and can play three lullabies or white noise to the baby
- Photos or video can be saved to a Micro SD
- Remote viewing access to camera via the internet
- Picture, sound and temperature monitor
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Good picture quality in daylight
- Viewer is an app on your smartphone
- 2.4 and 5 GHz WiFi connectivity: reception range is excellent (as wide as your home network)
- Good sound quality
- Very good ease of use
- A number of cameras can be viewed by a number of concurrent users
- Remote viewing access to camera via 3G
- Picture, sound and temperature monitor
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Picture, sound and temperature monitor
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Picture, sound, and temperature monitor
- Very good sound quality and sound sensitivity
- Starry Night Light pattern with 3 colors to choose from
- Picture, sound, motion and temperature monitor
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls
- Very good picture quality in daylight, good picture quality in dim and dark lighting
- Motion tracking
- Picture, sound, motion and temperature monitor
- Uses a smartphone carer unit, can be viewed anywhere within Wi-Fi range
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)Very good picture quality in daylight, good picture quality in dim and dark lighting
- Very good sound quality and sound sensitivity
- Motion tracking
- Sound and picture monitor.
- Temperature monitor with alarm.
- "Talk to baby" feature.
- Plays a tune.
- Picture zoom.
- Picture, sound, motion, and temperature monitor
- Can be viewed anywhere within Wi-Fi range
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Excellent picture quality in daylight and dim lighting, very good picture quality in dark lighting
- Picture, sound, motion, and temperature monitor
- Uses a smartphone carer unit, can be viewed anywhere within Wi-Fi range
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Very good sound sensitivity and quality
- Excellent picture quality in daylight and dim lighting, very good picture quality in dark lighting
- Photos or video can be saved to smartphone
- Picture, sound, motion, temperature and humidity monitor
- Uses a smartphone carer unit, can be viewed anywhere within Wi-Fi range
- Excellent sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls (within Wi-Fi range)
- Very Good picture quality in daylight and dim lighting, good picture quality in dark lighting
- Photos or video can be saved to smartphone
Bad points
- Poor picture sensitivity and quality
- Borderline in detecting and reproducing soft sounds
- Two units tested, both had a faulty screen out of the box
- A smartphone is required as camera, it may be hard to position it to view the baby
- No night vision capability, although you can turn the smartphone light on, which may wake the baby
- No motion detection
- No temperature monitoring
- No visual sound indicators
- No remote pan control for the camera
- No iOS app
- Nothing in particular
- No on/off switch on baby unit
- A smartphone is required as camera, it may be hard to position it to view the baby
- No night vision capability, although you can turn the smartphone light on, which may wake the baby
- Have to press and hold the view icon to view the image
- No visual sound indicators
- No indication that the camera is not functioning
- No remote pan or zoom control for the camera
- No iOS app
- No night light
- No motion alerts
- No on/off switch on baby unit
- Borderline sound range and poor picture range
- Cannot record videos or save photos
- Poor sound and vision monitoring range through indoor walls
- No motion alerts
- No night light
- No night light
- No video recording function
- No on/off switch on baby unit
- No room temperature monitoring
- No indicator on the baby camera that it is on and working
- No pan and tilt controls
- Requires an SD card to record videos
- Requires to subscribe to cloud storage if you want videos to be recorded when the alarm activates
- No on/off switch on baby unit
- No visual sound indicators
- No night light
- No on/off switch on baby unit
- Parent unit has poor sound volume
- Baby unit can not run on batteries
- Poor sound range
- Poor picture range
- Poor maximum sound level at the carer end
- No noise or motion alerts
- Poor sound sensitivity
- No on/off switch on baby unit
- Parent unit has poor sound volume
- Borderline picture range
- Cannot record videos or save photos
- No night light
- No on/off switch on baby unit
- No visual sound indicators
- No night light
- No on/off switch on baby unit
- Rated poorly in detecting and reproducing soft sounds.
- No belt clip on carer unit.
- Borderline sound and poor picture monitoring reach through indoor walls.
- Poor image quality in dim light and in the dark.
- A smartphone is required as camera, it may be hard to position it to view the baby
- Audio was breaking up a lot and the sound sensitivity was borderline
- No night vision capability, although you can turn the smartphone light on, which may wake the baby
- No motion detection
- No temperature monitoring
- No remote pan control for the camera
- No pan and tilt controls
- No visual sound indicators
- No pan and tilt controls
- No visual sound indicators
- Poor in detecting and reproducing soft sounds
- Poor maximum sound level at the carer end
- Poor sound range
- Poor video range
- Poor in detecting and reproducing soft sounds
- Poor maximum sound level at the carer end
- Sound volume at carer unit may not be loud enough especially in a noisy room.
- Rated poorly in detecting and reproducing soft sounds.
- No belt clip on carer unit.
- Poor sound and picture monitoring reach through indoor walls.
- Poor image quality in dim light and in the dark.
- Reset (the only control) requires a narrow probe to operate
- No visual sound indicators
- No indication that the camera is not functioning
- No remote pan control for the camera
- Bordeline maximum sound level at the carer end
- Reset (the only control) is poorly labelled
- No visual sound indicators
- No indication that the camera is not functioning
- No sound and motion alerts
- No night light
- Parent unit has borderline sound volume
- A smartphone is required as camera, it may be hard to position it to view the baby
- Picture lacks detail and has jerky motion in daylight and dim lighting
- No night vision capability, although you can turn the smartphone light on, which may wake the baby
- Bordeline maximum sound level at the carer end
- No temperature monitoring
- No remote pan control for the camera
- Nothing in particular
- Borderline picture quality in dim and dark lighting
- No motion alerts
- No night light
- No night light
- Baby unit cannot run on batteries.
- Cannot record videos or save photos
- No visual sound indicators
- No on/off switch on baby unit
Features
Motion monitor
N/A
Visual sound indicators
Baby room temperature monitor
Depends on smartphone
Optional extra
Night light
Belt clip on carer unit
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Plays a tune
Two-way audio communication
Low battery indicator on baby monitor
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Low battery indicator on carer unit or smartphone
Carer unit
Carer unit
Smartphone
Smartphone
Carer unit
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Carer unit
Smartphone
Smartphone
Smartphone
Carer unit
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Smartphone
Smartphone
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Carer unit
Smartphone
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Smartphone
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Specifications
Weight of carer unit (g)
174
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
278.5
209
N/A
N/A
N/A
178
111
211.8
N/A
N/A
133
N/A
189.7
N/A
102
198
130
218
N/A
N/A
244
N/A
148
137
135
337
N/A
202
243.3
N/A
N/A
Dimensions of carer unit (H x W x D, cm)
10 x 14.5 x 2
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
8 x 15.5 x 5
14 x 16.5 x 7.5
N/A
N/A
N/A
8.5 x 12 x 4.5
12 x 6.5 x 4.5
14 x 17 x 7
N/A
N/A
13 x 13 x 7
N/A
14.5 x 16 x 6.5
N/A
10 x 7 x 4.5
9 x 16 x 2
16.5 x 6.5 x 8
10 x 16 x 5.5
N/A
N/A
15 x 16.5 x 8.5
N/A
7 x 13 x 6
6 x 12 x 4
6.5 x 12 x 4
18 x 20 x 8.5
N/A
14 x 14.5 x 12.5
13 x 16 x 5.5
N/A
N/A
Country of origin
China
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China
China
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China
China
Taiwan
China
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China
China
China
China
China / Thailand
China
Not stated
China
China
China
China
China
China
China
China
China
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China
China
China
China
China
China
China
China
China
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