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hey everyone Jimmy with Jim's review room it's been a long time since I reviewed a smart camera I've done reviews on the nest cam and largest circle which have been amazing cameras themselves and a few cheaper models were some were okay and some were just duds now foscam just came up with their newest model the r2b which I got off of Amazon for just 129 dollars at the time this video and comparing to the competition and what features are offered that's a pretty good deal but as always we have to see how it performs as always I'll place my affiliate links in the video description below click on that then it will provide you with real-time updated prices for today I also put the links for the nest cam and a larger circle in there for you too so without further adieu I'm Jimmy with Jim's review room welcome everyone to another review going over the physical features this thing stands almost 5 inches tall and a width of about 3 inches keeping the entire unit compact with a stealthy matte black look now it's much smaller than d-link and most other motorized rotating based cameras out there including other faust camp cameras overall build quality it's not too light to feel cheap or risk of falling off the table if you ever bump it but it's definitely not heavy either in general it's been a quality product now on the front is your camera lens offered up to a 1080p resolution which I'll show soon and then rotating to the rear here there is a speakerphone and microphone combination allowing you to speak into your camera or your phone and have two-way audio here's a quick sample phone call and I'm also speaking in a pretty natural tone not too loud not too soft either I can hear the audio just transferring to the speakerphone Ali foscam itself it's very very clear so hope you guys enjoyed this and enjoyed the video is all either but this should give you an idea how will Michael for how much facing really it picks up in about fifty big wait I get all this audio is on edge and this is about ten feet away to get just speaking naturally how loud how well that micron can pick up my voice with the camera side again audio moving on towards the bottom left you have your wall power adapter in the middle you can have a LAN cable connect directly to your router for a more secure and stable connection and to the right which I'm never too fond of is an external antenna looking at the other side we have a microSD card slot so you can locally store your videos on the camera itself here the camera will continuously record your video and once the card is full it'll delete your old files and record the new one causing a continuous loop now some people will say there's no point since the camera could get stolen during a robbery or if there was a fire on the video would be lost anyways the foscam does offer cloud recording for a monthly subscription very similar to many other brands at the market and I'm already up in arms with monthly bills when compared to the competition foscam is almost 50% cheaper with the lowest option of four dollars per month and up to about eleven dollars a month for their most extensive package and one last thing here foscam does offer a wall mount in the package with drywall screws if you intend I'm mounting this up high somewhere but let's take a look at the app now and I'll demonstrate the video performance as well several things to get out of the way first foscam like many other smart cameras offers push notifications whenever the camera senses movement you will receive a notification on your phone indicating so now this can also send sound if there's a registered noise again you will be alerted and you can turn either setting off if you'd like now looking at the home page here you can have more than one camera connected the camera will only display a preview which sometimes I've noticed it doesn't change it doesn't update itself now you have to tap on the play button to see the live feed on the top right there's cloud recording if you've paid for the subscription the alert screen which gives you all the dates and times of movements detected which is great but unfortunately this provides only the 24 hour time stamp so those who are familiar would have to convert it to get a sense of when the event happened now I also notice while on the screen here you don't automatically get a preview of what caused the event with nest cam when there is movement though the nest cam will send a photo with your push notification that we don't have to go through the steps of opening your app to verify what had happened by the time you have opened the app your child might have moved off the screen or the burglar might have moved on to a different room however one of the biggest features though when you are watching your live feed you can manually take a photo of the live video or record the video at will not many other mainstream cameras offers this feature and less going to the main page again on the bottom right is your camera and for personal interests there's public cameras in which most of them are from China it looks like and you can people watch there so let's take a look at the camera performance here here's actual video and it's not edited whatsoever here keep in mind I'm in the process of painting my house so things are all over the place right now the 1080 image for a smart camera here it looks very good and considering foscam is claiming to have 110 degrees of field of vision that's nearly as wide as the logitech circle or the nest cam which they claim to have 130 degrees field of vision and something modern but it's still a very positive note here you don't have that fisheye lens where the edge of the image is bowed or rounded but overall the camera has been very smooth and the time I move my arms and move about to the time I see it on my cell phone has been maybe about a three to five-second delay not too bad the colors look accurate and amazing for a security camera and more importantly at least in my house here the connection has remained very stable now the other feature that I'm sure you've been waiting for and why you would consider the RGB model is the rotating base now having experience with the d-link model in the past using the controls on the phone had a serious delay and getting the right angle is just a serious pain with the foscam the controls are one of the better ones as it's not overly sensitive there is a slight delay though but it feels as soon as you let go the camera almost instantly stops moving so you won't overshoot what you're aiming for and last will be field of vision into consideration and the amount of rotation the camera offers you can have full 360 degree of vision or basically rotation and if you're needing vertical movement this can look perfectly straight up into the air here and with pointing it down it's not a full 45 degrees but the video I'm showing you should give you an idea of how much it can pan vertically and very less is the nighttime performance which everything about this camera so far has seemed fine the resolution at night here as you can see it looks great pretending to sleep around here you can get an idea of how visible my face can be and at the same time here walking all the way back into the kitchen about 35 linear feet or so away from the camera right now you can see how less visible that can be and just for comparison purposes the logitech circle here is shown as well now the only other real issue that I've noticed the camera had trouble with dim lighting and when most other cameras will switch from nighttime to daytime mode when there is just enough sunlight peeking through here the foscam will stay in night vision mode and so there's pretty ample amount of lighting coming through the windows and it doors not a huge issue but it would have been nice to have the auto setting feature work a bit better or work on par as the competitors out there so overall to conclude here the foscam are to be a seriously a great camera for how it performs and what features it offers when you take price into consideration including the cheap cloud services it really makes this one of the most underrated cameras out there at this price range so I hope this review helped you in some way be sure to subscribe to my youtube channel if you haven't and be sure to add me on to Facebook Twitter and/or Instagram at both gyms review room at my personal account as well at jimmy long official you guys take care and I'll see you in the next one bye