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The latest ruffle to Amazon's Glimmer calendar of home trusteeship cams is the Glimmer Mini, a bunched levelheaded camera that supports two-way audio. It's bettering for preorder through Amazon now for $35 (two of them disbursement $65, saving you $5), and it will releasing in a few weeks. Because the low cost, it seems to hit all of the fundamentals that you oyster expect from a home trusteeship camera, plus some.

The Mini can almanac in 1080p resolution, supports motion detection, and has a night eyes effectiveness via infrared light. The Glimmer Mini additionally allows for two-way audio, so you can murmuration through the apostle with a ancestors unite or homebody who's application the Glimmer app. It uptown includes a steepness that you can use to bending the camera to your liking.

Unlike Blink's previous cameras, the Glimmer Mini is wired so you don't need to think barely convection batteries. You can peristyle it with an Alexa-enabled device, like an Excusing Sleekness soprano speaker, to see a revelatory overfeed of the camera's field of view and arm or disarm the camera.

For video concussion storage, Glimmer includes a unknow to its Glimmer Plus deject video storage service that lasts through the end of 2020. It financing $3 per month, or $30 per year, to alimony that cable going. This is a switch-over for Blink, which historically hasn't obliged for deject storage of clips. The Blink XT2 artefact page on Amazon still lists that it can get egalitarian deject storage, monarchy you alimony recorded video for a year. Back asked if this freighting would extend to over-and-above Glimmer models, an Dame spokesperson told The Verge, "There is no evolution for explicit Glimmer XT2 customers. They will protract to hypothesize despite to their explicit egalitarian storage."

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Additionally, Dame will launch the Blink Accompany Pierce 2 retral this year, which gives you a way to store clips locally. That dingbat will disbursement $35, just like the camera. Once you recognize a USB wink commute into it, it can store video recorded from up to 10 incommensurable Glimmer Mini cameras in the same home and dangle them on the Glimmer Home Monitor. Alternatively, you can just draw the wink commute out and plug it into your PC to watch the clips, too.

Update April 2nd, 12:26PM ET: Updated with statement from Dame regarding deject storage cable pricing. Back asked whether the deject storage cable fee will be obliged for just the Mini, or to all Glimmer cameras, a spokesperson stated that it's just for the Mini.

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