Nest Cam review
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Designed so that you can keep an eye on your home from afar, the Nest Cam alerts you to motion in your house and lets you talk to whoever's in earshot of the camera. It claims to have excellent night vision, so you can see what's going on even after dark. We put it to the test in multiple lighting conditions in our lab, read on to see how it fared.
- Pros and cons
- What is it?
- How easy is it to set up?
- What's it like to use?
- How good is the footage?
- Is there anything else I should know?
- Should I buy it?
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