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hi I'm Megan bulletin 14 and appliances here with the Samsung smart cam HD pro this little camera is designed to compete directly with the Dropcam pro it costs one hundred and eighty nine dollars compared to the dropcam's 199 and offers a lot of the same features the first thing you'll notice about the Samsung model in comparison to the Dropcam pro is that it looks kind of like a smoke detector with the cheap plastic base the Dropcam is a lot more substantial even though it's more streamlined I just like the way it looks and feels a lot better as far as features are concerned though I think the Samsung is pretty competitive with the Dropcam it offers a lot of the same things the same 1080p resolution but one thing I really like about the Samsung model that the Dropcam Pro doesn't offer is local storage if you have an SD card you can store directly onto that whereas the Dropcam is all remote storage well I don't think the Samsung app looks as nice as dropcam's it offers more hands-on options you can select a lullabye modes and use this as a baby monitor you can change the brightness you can do two-way audio so the app seems to offer more options but the design is a little bit worse than the Dropcam Pro well we did notice some lag time with both of the cameras the Samsung tended to have a shorter lag time on average but I did also notice that the video quality wasn't quite as sharp or crisp as I saw on the Dropcam pro so while you get a shorter lag time your video quality is a little bit worse so all in all this is a great camera and it's a great competitor for the Dropcam pro but they really need to work on the design of the camera the design of the app and their video quality to make it as good as the Dropcam pro that's why I'd still recommend spending the I certain bucks and getting the Dropcam pro instead of the Samsung thanks for watching I'm Megan Willerton for cnet.com