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REVIEWS<br />
& RATINGS<br />
an overlay with the camera’s control panel. From here you can turn the<br />
camera on and off, put it in low-power mode, activate night vision, and<br />
perform a few other basic functions.<br />
One afternoon, I decided to use the camera to check on my dog<br />
while I was away. I corral him in the foyer when I know I’ll be gone for<br />
just a short time, but there’s no convenient surface there to place the<br />
camera, so I unplugged it and mounted it on the metal staircase<br />
banister. That gave me the perfect vantage point for monitoring him,<br />
and the two-way audio gave me<br />
the opportunity to listen in and<br />
Logitech Circle<br />
AT A GLANCE:<br />
Logitech has a long history in<br />
the home-security<strong>–</strong>camera<br />
market, but this product has<br />
more in common with a<br />
webcam than its competition.<br />
PROS:<br />
• Day Briefs provide a digest<br />
of recordings<br />
• Setup is a snap<br />
• App is dead simple to use<br />
CONS:<br />
• Relies on algorithms to<br />
determine what and when<br />
to record<br />
• Lacks customization options<br />
• Short-lived backup battery<br />
$200<br />
give him voice commands when he<br />
got into mischief. I also found,<br />
however, that the Circle’s battery<br />
lasted only about half of the<br />
promised three hours.<br />
Live video was clear in all my<br />
tests, with accurate colors in both<br />
day and night mode; but there was<br />
significant image bending at the<br />
top and sides of the frame.<br />
Predictably, using the pinch-andzoom<br />
feature rendered the image<br />
fuzzy, making it hard to distinguish<br />
smaller details.<br />
Because the Circle offers Scene<br />
Intuition in lieu of the manual<br />
motion-detection settings offered<br />
by most other cameras in its price<br />
range, you’re at the mercy of<br />
Logitech’s algorithms when it<br />
comes to determining what’s an<br />
“interesting” event. It became<br />
apparent that the Circle’s<br />
definition is “anything that moves<br />
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