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 808 Car Keys Micro Camera Review
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Mate808
808 Mates Micro Camera Mate808 with 120 Degree Lens
The Mate808 is one version of the 808 car keys micro camera.

160411 - What's new - This 808 claims to be 1080p, 30 FPS, and is the same 20 gram weight and size (32 x 52 x 15 mm) of the original 808 camera released in 2009.  Uses a micro USB connector, not the mini USB, not the 8-pin USB. Available with a 70 or 120 degree lens.

160419 The Mate808 is a high definition 1600 x 1200 video camera up-scaled to 1920x1080. It is small in size, very light weight and low cost. The low power design records for a long time and the camera does not get hot. The video has some some JPG artifacts and the video files are very large.

160411 The producer of the 808 #11, #18 and #26 notified me that the Mate808 is being sold on eBay and Amazon.  Produced by Hetai Digital Technology Co.,Ltd, www.Htinter.com, eBay: hxelepro360 and eletech086, MateCam, Matecam Tech.co.,Ltd, www.MateCamera.com.
 


160411 - Ordered a 70° and 120° Mate808.
160417 - Received two cameras.                  
160411 - I have ordered the camera and will review it when it is received.  Delivered from China.
160417 - Received cameras.

The brand is Matecam.  The company name is Matecam Tech.co.,Ltd.  The camera name is Mate808.  The website (under construction) is www.MateCamera.com.

My review of the Mate808 at RCGroups is at:  http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2648368

Available for sale at:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/361532790239
http://www.ebay.com/itm/162035977003
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E5HDUSC 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01E4UJWJG


160418 - Mate808 Metrics, 70° and 120° cameras
160418 I received two Mate808 cameras, one with 70° lens and one with 120° lens.

WEIGHT
Weight of camera without flash card. 
70° - 16.31g
120° - 17.06g
Weight of my Samsung SDHC 32GB is 0.24g.
Weight of my 808 #16 V1 camera with D lens, no lens cap, is 18.6g.

SIZE & CASE
120° camera - Dimensions empirical 56.5 x 32.9 x 15.2 mm.  The lens has an OD of 10.0 mm.  A lens cap is not provided but one should be used.  The 808 #16 D lens OD is 10 mm and the lens cap fits the Mates808 lens. 
70° camera - Dimensions empirical 56.2 x 32.9 x 15.2 mm.
The plastic case has approximately the shape of the original 808 from 2009.  The bottom surface is rounded so it does not sit flat like the 808 #16.  The case bottom is embossed with "#18", probably because the producer of the 808 #18 makes the Mate808.


INITIAL USB CHARGE CURRENT
When received, I started charging the cameras.  The 120° camera took longer to charge, so the initial charge might have been lower.  Initial charge current:
70° - 175 mA
120° - 325 mA

FIRMWARE
160419 Firmware version JH_7556_03543459.bin is 30 FPS and seems to have no missing frames.
160418 The Firmware as delivered was 30 FPS but had about 23% missing frames. 

PHOTO FILE
Photo resolution is always 1280x720.  JPG.  Every image is 1.25 MB (1311344 bytes).  Applies to both lenses and any video resolution.

VIDEO FILE
Video file wrapper
- AVI.
Video stream - codec is MJPG.
Missing frame rate - Firmware JH_7556_03543459.bin is 30 FPS and seems to have no missing frames.  Missing frame rate was tested using single-frame-step in VirtualDub and the KMPlayer.  This missing frame rate applies to both 720p and 1080p.
Audio Stream
- Audio stream is always PCM.  Sample Rate 32000.  Bit rate 512 Kbps.  One channel.

70° degree, 720p
     

70° degree, 1080p
Measured horizontal angle of view (HAOV)
Test1 - At a 36 inch distance, an 11 inch wide paper page is 628 pixels wide in a 1920x1080 frame.  From this data, the calculated HAOV of 50.07 degrees.
Test2 - Using a tape measure the full width of the image.  TBD.
     

120° degree, 720p
     

120° degree, 1080p
Sample KMPlayer Media Info, Outdoor sunny daylight.
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 194 MiB
Duration : 36s 667ms
Overall bit rate : 44.4 Mbps
Video #0
ID : 0
Format : JPEG
Codec ID : MJPG
Duration : 36s 667ms
Bit rate : 43.4 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 30.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.697
Stream size : 190 MiB (98%)
Audio #1
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 36s 0ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 512 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 32.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 2.20 MiB (1%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 1019 ms (30.56 video frames)





  
 
   

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