Is This BUDGET ACTION CAMERA better than the GOPRO? AKASO BRAVE8 - S2 Ep12

After struggling with the well-known bugginess issues that plague the latest GoPro models, we decided to look for a more reliable alternative. Find out how the budget friendly Akaso Brave8 stacks up against the most popular action camera on the market today and whether or not you should switch!

[aNaturalist]

Terrific! As someone who wants to buy one to use while dinghy sailing, it was great to see a review from a sailor.

[ksmith]

Thank you for that well put togather take on the Brave 8 camera vs the GoPro.
My own journey with the Brave 8, which I purchased about 2 months ago has been similar.
09:45 I have been unable to connect my excellent Fullaim X5 stereo wireless mic to the Brave 8 using a standard USB-C to 3.5mm jack cable, becasue Akaso do not use a standard USB-C male to 3.5mm TRS jack cable / pinout.

Why they do this, I do not know.

There is a tiny chip inside the standard USB-C to 3.5mm TRS jack, that everyone else uses, on the USB-C plug, that you can't see, that converts the digital audio signal to analogue on the TRS side.
This is done on the cable itself.
But the Akaso cable is wired differently, which is infuriating.

If you open a support ticket with Akaso and complain about this issue saying it makes the camera a "no-go" rather than a "go-pro", explaining all your reasoning, and point to your video they will send you their own internal wireless mic for $18 US, after a bit of back and forth. This mic they have is not yet available commercially.
This technology lock in does not fix the debilitatiing "non-standards" issue.

What will fix it is them selling a USB-C to 3.5mm TRS jack adapter cable, making the camera compatiable with the same audio output standard as everyone else.
That they do output and input on their audio interface differently to everyone else is very odd.

May be explain to them, as well, as I have done, that this will cause them a loss of sales. That should motivate the change.

Thanks again, good video

[Bornfree-ontwowheels]

well my friend, the App and image stabilisation are a pain in the butt and the volors are way too bad, othervise it coulsd maybe be great.

[daviddrew]

Their software lets them down big time, as for the audio they have a external mic adapter available and a wireless mic system but you'll have to work hard to get it for some reason known only to akaso they keep it a big secret😂

[GoPro_And_Others]

This is not a GoPro killer. It's suicide😂

[ricgilar]

"realtime" software stabilization is burning any small devices even for phones. theres a bunch of algorithm going on just to stabilize real-time the frame by frame of a video. making you go for a bigger processor like your pc or slower process and later conversion on an app is the cheat way for it. overheating a minidevice is suicide

[Bornfree-ontwowheels]

no a Gopro killer nope Akaso is still not good enough !

[reporteratlarge]

Why would anyone get this junk camera for $289 when they can get a Hero 10 for $220? Bleh