Based on that price, when we compare it to the other options available, we’ve given it a price score of 8.1 out of 10. Dash cams category average cost Full 1080p HD dash camera offers ultra clear footage, the Front lens provides a wide 150 degree viewing angle As well as the Motorola MDC150, Thinkware F70 and Transcend DrivePro 550, the latest batch of dash cams we've tested in our lab also includes: The camera also comes with standard G-Sensor impact detection, meaning that you don’t need to worry about important footage of an incident being overwritten. This feature is common amongst almost all dashcams, so it’s good to see they didn’t skimp on it here. Summary

Price is another really important factor for analysing the quality of Motorola MDC300GW HD Dash Cam vs other products in the Dash cams category. It’s obvious, but you will need to set your expectations of quality based on your budget and the price of the product you’re looking at, against the price of alternatives.I consider that I was mislead and am not happy that Motorola will not stand behind this product itself Read full review Matching its cheaper peers, this Transcend dash cam records in Full HD resolution at a maximum of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels. The first factor that you can look at is the brand. Often we can get a really good understanding of the quality of toys and other gadgets by just looking at the brand. There are some brands that are really well known for great quality, whilst others might be better known for value.(and some are known to be poor in both areas). As you can imagine, pricing is one of the most important factors of any purchasing decision. We can find the perfect product for our needs, that fits the brief in every single way. But if it doesn’t fit our budgets, we simply can’t (or at least shouldn’t) buy it. The next step was to try and narrow down our search even more. So we’ve already looked the prices of products in the Dash cams category. Then we’ve also looked at the prices of products from Motorola. So this step combines the two and looks specifically at the price you’d expect to pay for Motorola branded products in the Dash cams category.

Next up is material. Read through the product description for Motorola MDC300GW HD Dash Cam to get an understanding of the materials the product is made from. Some materials will obviously be known for delivering better quality item than others. You might also have decided that you’ll only accept a product made from a particular material. Our suggestion here is that you spend a bit of time looking around to see the sort of brands that are offering Dash cams and if you know you have a preference on which brand you’d buy then write yourself a list of top brands. Once you have complied your list of brands you can use this as a great way of filtering or narrowing down your search, great then there are 22 options in the Dash cams category.The next step after looking at products in the same category, was to look at products from the same brand, Motorola. To get the quality score, we’re looking at a number of factors, but typically we’re studying the brand of the product, the warranty included and basing it on what customers have to say about the quality. Just before we get into the detail of analysing the price of this product, we want to briefly highlight the importance of setting yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a suitable product. It’s all too often that we get carried away when shopping and find ourselves buying a fantastic product, but probably actually overdelivers on what we need and therefore costs a lot more than we should have spent. So spend a bit of time looking around at the sort of price you can expect to pay for products in the Dash cams category and use that alongside your own financial situation to set yourself a budget. It’s highly likely, unless you’re a hard-line dashcam aficionado with a collection case full of the things at home, that you had no idea Motorola made dashcams. They’re far better known for their mobile phones (who remembers the catchy ‘Hello Moto’ jingle from their old ads?) and, more recently, their smartwatches. In fact, you might be forgiven for thinking the company doesn’t exist anymore for the amount the name is heard nowadays.

If the price appears to be significantly lower than you’d expect for the sort of product you’re buying, then you’d be wise to start looking in a bit more detail at other indicators of the quality. For the price score, it seems pretty obvious, but we’re basing the score on the price of the product against competitor products or even alternatives from the same brand. For example if we find another Motorola product at a cheaper price than Motorola MDC300GW HD Dash Cam, but we feel they’re of similar quality, we’ll score the cheaper product higher. Motorola MDC300GW HD Dash Cam review score More information on quality can be found in this old but still very helpful article from Harvard Business Review. If the brand you buy is important to you, our best advice is to spend some time writing up your own list of ideal brands. That way when you come to the point where you’re comparing product options you can filter to only show the products from brands in your list.The brand of product you buy can vary in importance, from person to person. Some people will of course be much more particular about the brands they will use. Whilst others aren’t interested in the brand and are more interested in the overall quality or price of the product itself. Thankfully Motorola is a brand that many customers have grown to love over the years and is very popular for items in the Dash cams category. It's equipped with the standard features we would expect for a model of this price, including a useful two-inch display screen to review footage directly on the dash cam.