I hate my MobiCam



Danielle D. writes today to profess no love for her Mobicam baby monitor:

Hi guys,

I love your book. It was an invaluable resource in planning for the arrival of my baby.

We wanted a video baby monitor and took your advice and purchased the MobiCam.
I thought throwing my feedback into the ring might help you in guiding future buyers, so here goes…

I hate my MobiCam… You did warn about some of the issues I’m having.

• The biggest problem is the feedback… I didn’t realize how many things operate on the 2.4 GHz frequency. We have constant popping static sounds when the volume is up loud enough to hear the baby.

• The LCD screen is not an effective way to get “at-a-glance” reassurance that the baby is ok. You need to be looking perpendicular to the screen in order to see anything. Even though the other video monitors are bigger, I think it would be better to not have to pick up the monitor and hold it in front of my face each time I want to see what’s going on.

• Again, you did warn about this, but the batteries really don’t last…Why buy a small portable unit without rechargeable batteries?

• A small, but annoying thing is that every time you unplug, or turn off, then on again, the receiver goes back to channel 1. So if you find your unit works best on channel 3, each time you turn the receiver on, you’ll have to channel back up to 3 because the unit does not remember.

• Another annoyance is that it doesn’t auto-detect day/night lighting.

I guess I needed to give a monitor a test run before realizing how important some of this little things can be J.

Again, I love the book, but would like to see MobiCam at more of a C/D rating instead of the A you give it in your book. It would also be helpful to see a side by side comparison of all the video monitors out there. The chart you have in the 6th edition doesn’t even include “video” as one of the attributes.

Thanks!
Danielle D.

Posted: Tue - December 12, 2006 at 10:01 AM          

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