--- product_id: 9026760 title: "Compact – All-Purpose Thermal Imaging Camera for Android MicroUSB, Black (UW-AAA)" brand: "seek thermal" price: "€ 375.76" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 category: "Seek Thermal" url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/9026760-compact-all-purpose-thermal-imaging-camera-for-android-microusb-black store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # 9 FPS video capture speed Waterproof rugged carrying case 206x156 thermal sensor resolution Compact – All-Purpose Thermal Imaging Camera for Android MicroUSB, Black (UW-AAA) **Brand:** seek thermal **Price:** € 375.76 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🔥 See the unseen. Fix the future. 🔍 ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Compact – All-Purpose Thermal Imaging Camera for Android MicroUSB, Black (UW-AAA) by seek thermal - **How much does it cost?** € 375.76 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/9026760-compact-all-purpose-thermal-imaging-camera-for-android-microusb-black) ## Best For - seek thermal enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted seek thermal brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Compact, Rugged & Ready:** Pocket-sized, waterproof, and built to endure jobsite demands—carry confidence everywhere. - • **Wide 36° Field of View:** Capture expansive thermal scenes indoors or outdoors, spotting issues up to 1000 feet away. - • **Precision Manual Focus Dial:** Fine-tune your thermal imagery with a tactile focus knob for crystal-clear heat detection. - • **Plug & Play Thermal Powerhouse:** Transforms your Android phone into a pro-grade thermal camera instantly—no batteries needed. - • **Versatile Thermal Modes & Palettes:** Switch between 9 color palettes and modes like spot temp and threshold for tailored diagnostics. ## Overview The Seek Thermal Compact is a cutting-edge Android-compatible thermal imaging camera featuring a 206x156 sensor, 36° field of view, and manual focus dial. It plugs directly into your smartphone’s MicroUSB port, requires no batteries, and comes with a waterproof carrying case. Ideal for professionals and DIYers alike, it detects heat-related issues like energy loss and water damage with 9 color palettes and multiple thermal modes, capturing both photos and videos at 9 frames per second. This compact, rugged device empowers users to uncover hidden problems quickly and efficiently, making it a must-have tool for modern home and jobsite diagnostics. ## Description Seek Thermal Compact imager is Android specific imager that plugs directly into your smartphone. Compact’s employs wide, 36 degree field of view that is ideal for use both indoors and close-range outdoors, allowing you to detect thermal Energy up to 1000 feet away. Seek unit is perfect for contractors, professional trades, inspectors, structural auditors and DIY homeowners. The electronic unit is compatible with Android smartphones including Samsung, Motorola, ssony, HTC, Nexus, LG and others. Imaging resource comes with a pocket-sized, waterproof Carrying Case. Review: Thrilled with the results I see so far - My experience with this *Seek Compact* version of the camera put my fears to rest and I'm thrilled! In 2020 I air-sealed my attic & basement rim joists. I then discovered that exterior insulation (under the vinyl exterior) was poorly installed. I looked at 6 more houses in other communities and found the same result...i.e. look "under the hood" of your house and you're likely to find crummy workmanship that reduces your energy efficiency. I want to kill drafts and save $$ heating/cooling my house (and my kids houses). Where to focus my effort? A thermal camera would help, but I can't afford a pro camera. So for 2-3 weeks I read dozens of reviews on affordable thermal cameras. This Seek camera stood out due to the many favorable reviews. I favored the Seek over its nearest competitor because Seek has the higher pixel count. I did hesitate 'cuz of reviews reviews saying: image quality is terrible; the camera won't work unless you register; the camera steals information. But some excellent reviews addressed these issues for me, so now I'll add my experience. It may help others who'll consider this for future purchase APP ACCESS TO PHONE: I did NOT need to give the Seek app access to my phone. I did NOT need to register the camera. Here's what I did. I dug up my 2014 LG G3 phone (no SIM card). I charged it, connected to a guest network, snapped the camera into the phone port and I installed the Seek Thermal app. Pop-up windows appeared asking for access to camera, photos, mic. **I denied access**. To my delight, the thermal camera image nevertheless appeared and I was quickly seeing images! Yes the Seek focus knob is a little tricky. It requires patience. When you change the focus knob you need to wait 2-4 seconds for the image to update. If you're not patient the focus knob could appear to be useless. I also adjust my range further/closer to the target of interest as part of my focusing process. Well, in less than 5 minutes I was getting the hang of it and could easily recognize my thermal images. This was especially true when I switched the color palette. For me, 'amber' screen images were very clear. Here's the limitation in my strategy. Because I denied app access on my phone I couldn't save thermal images as I walked around my house. For many uses that doesn't matter. Looking for a hot, or cold or wet spot? There it is - problem identified and you never needed to grant the app phone access or register the camera. But if you're surveying areas in your house like I am (for work when Spring returns) it could be cumbersome to record/diagram/inventory all the needs. You probably already saw that I attached pictures to this review, so yes, took the next step and gave the Seek app access to storage on my old LG G3. Then I could walk around cataloging areas that need work. When I stopped using the camera I disconnect it from the phone, powered off my G3 and put them both in a drawer. CAMERA FIT: I bought the older micro USB style. It snapped into my phone and is a very rugged connection. There's no danger of the camera falling out even if I shake the phone. It would require dropping the camera or solidly smacking the phone on something to dislodge the camera. I did have to remove the hard-shell case and rubber cover from my LG phone to fit the camera, but this is a minor issue. BATTERY LIFE: I agree that the camera is a battery drain. I walked around with the camera on for ~30 minutes and my phone battery went from 98% to 62%. Your experience will differ. For sure my 5+ year old G3 phone battery is nowhere near its original 3000mAh. May be best for you to guess you'll get an hour of power before your phone will need juice. Temperature accuracy: I brought a pot of water to boil on my stove and viewed thru the Seek compact camera. The imaging spot jumped around due to the rigorous boiling, and was reporting temperatures of 207-210 degF. Or, when I image a person, the camera shows readings of 96-97 degF. These are both more than good enough for the current and expected work I plan with this camera. IMAGES (attached) One pic is my fireplace. You can see logs in the fireplace. The heart-shaped glow centered above the fireplace is a hanging wreath at room temp (bright). You can see the horizontal mantle, the candles on the mantle and even draped decoration. Lower left corner reading of 78F is the edge of a charging plug. Another picture is of my front door - poor insulation around the door perimeter. The door window showed 57F. I have clear heat-shrink plastic insulation covering this window. The thin plastic insulation might be invisible to the Seek camera and it might be reading the temperature of the inside surface of that window. The high temp reading in the lower right corner is from an adjacent heat register. 3rd picture shows exterior wall next to my kitchen sink. Can you see the dish-drying rack, a coffee filter cone and a wall plug and power cord on the right? What troubles me is the dark blob that's about in the center of the pic. It's . the light/disposal switches. Even though I previously insulated that plate with 'foam pads' from a big box store and later w/Great Stuff, it's still really cold. The cold even 'flows' down the wall and chills my sink counter. The Seek compact reveals that there's ~6" x 4" section in the wall cavity that's missing insulation. The camera revealed 3 other exterior wall outlets in my kitchen with the same missing insulation defect. 4th picture is a section of exterior wall. Maybe you can ID what it shows without my description and then decide for yourself if the image quality from the camera is useful. I'm very happy with the performance/price ratio. Its' working really well and I anticipate getting lots of data that will direct my work to make my house more comfortable, less costly, and more environmentally green. Thanks again to the positive detailed reviews from people before me. Good luck to those of you considering this Seek compact camera.. Review: Unbelievable value - I've been using thermal imagers professionally for about 30 years. This Seek unit isn't anywhere close to a state-of-the-art military/tactical, laboratory or commercial unit today. But, for a cheap, tiny plug-in for the bottom of my new Android phone, it's extremely impressive - I would have thought it had been delivered from an alien spaceship less than 10 years ago (By comparison, I've been expecting real smartphones since before the Apple Newton). I haven't really used its new near-price competition, the new FLIR C2 or the 2nd gen FLIR One extensively yet, but I'm far more impressed with this unit than the first generation FLIR One (iPhone 5 caddy form factor). Last year, I was impressed enough with the original FLIR One that I nearly bought an iPhone 5 just to get one (as much as I like and respect FLIR, I'm glad I decided to procrastinate). First, the image resolution: if you're used to multi-megapixel digital photo cameras, forget about it - that's not what you're getting with the Seek, or any other thermal in a price range less than a Tesla (or two or three, or twenty). Thermal is about 20 years behind that, dollar for dollar (image worse than the first Nikon digital I bought back in '93-'94). However, the resolution is about four times what you'd get with the 1st gen FLIR One's Lepton imager. The Seek image is very, very pixelated, and the long time constant video averaging requires one to hold it it very steady or the image will smear (think 1/4 - 1/2 second hand-held still exposure steady on a conventional camera). Unlike FLIR's visual/thermal overlay (patented MSX), Seek requires you to swipe back and forth between the thermal and the camera's visual camera images in the app. You can capture visual or thermal, or half and half, but not one on top of the other. The result is a better thermal image and a better visual image on the Seek that may not look quite as good as the FLIR's MSX overlay as a captured snapshot. Some of my colleagues think the FLIR MSX approach is better at this price point. I disagree for now, but I can understand their argument. Having a pretty low general opinion of the current state of what passes for software engineering, and even lower of Android apps, I can say that the Seek app is better than most Android apps I've used, especially at this level of maturity and adoption (its adoption isn't even a rounding error compared to a Google app). It installed cleanly on my new Moto G 2nd gen with Lollipop (the cheapest smartphone platform I could find that might support it, as my previous Nexus 4 would not). It hasn't crashed or locked-up, and it cleanly sends captured images to G-mail or Bluetooth. The visual/thermal swap feature is useful, as are the various color palates ("Iron" looks cool on ads, and in reports, but I've always used gray scale for serious work). I don't like the inability to set gain or freeze the AGC (something the new FLIR's app can apparently do), but I can live with that at this price point (for the time being). Thermal differential sensitivity in a low contrast scene seems to be pretty good - I'll take Seek's claim of about 0.1 degrees C as about right. I don't expect this to be a calibrated radiometer, or to use it as a substitute for a high quality imager for point medical screening, so I'm not going to get wrapped-up with actual vs. reported temperature values in the app (and no one wants to read a discourse on emissivity variations). I hope Seek (and FLIR) will have emissivity adjustments and calibration methods in the not-too-distant future (and some education, as I see a lot of misunderstanding and inflated expectation in some of the posts/reviews). As a usability note: I lucked out with the Moto G 2nd gen; it wasn't listed as "supported" when I bought it, although the 1st gen G was, as was the Moto X, 1st and 2nd gen. I also lucked out that the USB is oriented in a way that the Moto's visual camera is pointed in the same direction as the Seek, so that a back-and-forth overlay or split is easy. Not sure I'd be quite as happy if I found that I had to use one of the extension USB cables to orient it with one hand, while holding the phone with the other. Finally, the imager comes with a cute, really well-designed and constructed hard little carrying case. I can thrown it in my briefcase, backpack or cargo pant pocket, and not even think about it. Nice touch! Bottom line: for those with a realistic understanding of the current state-of-the-art, this is amazing. If you want to get into the world of thermal imaging at a really reasonable price point, or you're just looking for a cool toy that's about the same price as a high-end 802.11 AC router, it's worth giving this a try. If you wait six months or a year, there will probably be something better. But, you'd probably still be using a typewriter and a Western Electric phone if that was the #1 consideration. ## Features - Transform your smartphone or tablet into an all-purpose thermal camera with a 206 x 156 thermal Sensor for use at home, the jobsite, and more. - Find and fix faster by seeing problems invisible to the naked eye such as: energy loss, electrical and mechanical failures, water damage, and hundreds more heat related issues. - Perfect tool for DIY homeowners, contractors, builders, and engineers. - Does not require batteries or charging. Waterproof case included. Free seek mobile app. - Specs: 206 x 156 thermal Sensor, 36° field of view, < 9 Hz frame rate, focusable lens, -40F° to 626°f detection range, captures photos & videos, spot temperature, high-low temperature, threshold mode, 9 Color palettes - MANUAL FOCUS DIAL provides control and precision over your thermal imagery. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B00NYWAHHM | | Aperture Modes | manual | | Autofocus | No | | Best Sellers Rank | #88,920 in Industrial & Scientific ( See Top 100 in Industrial & Scientific ) #57 in Thermal Imagers | | Brand | Seek Thermal | | Built-In Media | 206 x 156 Thermal Sensor, Waterproof Case Included | | Camera Flash | no flash | | Color | Black | | Continuous shooting speed | 9 FPS | | Customer Reviews | 3.8 out of 5 stars 1,300 Reviews | | Effective Still Resolution | 32000 Pixels | | Exposure Control Type | Manual | | File Format | jpg, mp4 | | Focal Length Description | Short focal length millimeters | | Focus Type | Manual Focus | | Global Trade Identification Number | 00855753005136, 05915903757935 | | Image stabilization | No image stabilization | | Item Type Name | Thermal imaging camera. | | Item Weight | 0.23 Pounds | | Light Sensitivity | High | | Manufacturer | Seek Thermal | | Maximum Focal Length | 9 Millimeters | | Media Type | Image, Video | | Model Name | UW-AAA | | Real Angle of View | 36 Degrees | | Sensor Type | Thermal | | Shooting Modes | Spot Temperature, High-Low Modes, Temperature Threshold Mode | | UPC | 855753005136 785497786490 | | Unit Count | 1.0 Count | | Video Capture Format | MP4 | | Video Capture Resolution | 206 x 156 | | Viewfinder Type | LCD screen | | Warranty Description | 1 Year Warranty for Manufacturer Defects | | Water Resistance Level | Waterproof | | Zoom Type | Fixed | ## Product Details - **Color:** Black - **Exposure Control Type:** Manual - **Media Type:** Image, Video - **Shooting Modes:** Spot Temperature, High-Low Modes, Temperature Threshold Mode - **Video Capture Resolution:** 206 x 156 ## Images ![Compact – All-Purpose Thermal Imaging Camera for Android MicroUSB, Black (UW-AAA) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71tQnrbnv6L.jpg) ![Compact – All-Purpose Thermal Imaging Camera for Android MicroUSB, Black (UW-AAA) - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51lOkm1BMdL.jpg) ![Compact – All-Purpose Thermal Imaging Camera for Android MicroUSB, Black (UW-AAA) - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/518I7nxcxKL.jpg) ![Compact – All-Purpose Thermal Imaging Camera for Android MicroUSB, Black (UW-AAA) - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51eTM0x1LTL.jpg) ![Compact – All-Purpose Thermal Imaging Camera for Android MicroUSB, Black (UW-AAA) - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51OdlOyebvL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Pattern, Size, Style** options. ## Questions & Answers **Q: is it a good camera for ghost hunting?** A: It’s as good as any camera at it. **Q: Has anyone used it to look for heat loss in their home? If so, did you like the results concerning the camera?** A: Yes. Have this basic model for years now. Works great, especially for comparing small differences in temperature from one surface to another... like heat or cooling losses through house, heat gain inside home in summer with sun heat. I have the micro SD camera and new Samsung has S connector so need adapter: MUST be special adapter cable not the cheapest one. Some micro/S fail to send all communications through. **Q: Will this work on a 8" android tablet** A: As long as it uses the same connection type. YES. I have used it on 4 different cell phones and off/name brand tablets. Worked everytime. **Q: I want to use this to detect the direction of framing in attics from the room below. Can this detect the differential between the joists/insulation?** A: It is possible, but not assured. The camera detects variances in temperature, and doesn't actually see "through" surfaces. If the joists and insulation cause temperature variances (even subtle ones) they might be detected. If the temperature on the other side of the wall or ceiling is much different than the room are in you should have an easier time. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thrilled with the results I see so far *by R***G on January 24, 2021* My experience with this *Seek Compact* version of the camera put my fears to rest and I'm thrilled! In 2020 I air-sealed my attic & basement rim joists. I then discovered that exterior insulation (under the vinyl exterior) was poorly installed. I looked at 6 more houses in other communities and found the same result...i.e. look "under the hood" of your house and you're likely to find crummy workmanship that reduces your energy efficiency. I want to kill drafts and save $$ heating/cooling my house (and my kids houses). Where to focus my effort? A thermal camera would help, but I can't afford a pro camera. So for 2-3 weeks I read dozens of reviews on affordable thermal cameras. This Seek camera stood out due to the many favorable reviews. I favored the Seek over its nearest competitor because Seek has the higher pixel count. I did hesitate 'cuz of reviews reviews saying: image quality is terrible; the camera won't work unless you register; the camera steals information. But some excellent reviews addressed these issues for me, so now I'll add my experience. It may help others who'll consider this for future purchase APP ACCESS TO PHONE: I did NOT need to give the Seek app access to my phone. I did NOT need to register the camera. Here's what I did. I dug up my 2014 LG G3 phone (no SIM card). I charged it, connected to a guest network, snapped the camera into the phone port and I installed the Seek Thermal app. Pop-up windows appeared asking for access to camera, photos, mic. **I denied access**. To my delight, the thermal camera image nevertheless appeared and I was quickly seeing images! Yes the Seek focus knob is a little tricky. It requires patience. When you change the focus knob you need to wait 2-4 seconds for the image to update. If you're not patient the focus knob could appear to be useless. I also adjust my range further/closer to the target of interest as part of my focusing process. Well, in less than 5 minutes I was getting the hang of it and could easily recognize my thermal images. This was especially true when I switched the color palette. For me, 'amber' screen images were very clear. Here's the limitation in my strategy. Because I denied app access on my phone I couldn't save thermal images as I walked around my house. For many uses that doesn't matter. Looking for a hot, or cold or wet spot? There it is - problem identified and you never needed to grant the app phone access or register the camera. But if you're surveying areas in your house like I am (for work when Spring returns) it could be cumbersome to record/diagram/inventory all the needs. You probably already saw that I attached pictures to this review, so yes, took the next step and gave the Seek app access to storage on my old LG G3. Then I could walk around cataloging areas that need work. When I stopped using the camera I disconnect it from the phone, powered off my G3 and put them both in a drawer. CAMERA FIT: I bought the older micro USB style. It snapped into my phone and is a very rugged connection. There's no danger of the camera falling out even if I shake the phone. It would require dropping the camera or solidly smacking the phone on something to dislodge the camera. I did have to remove the hard-shell case and rubber cover from my LG phone to fit the camera, but this is a minor issue. BATTERY LIFE: I agree that the camera is a battery drain. I walked around with the camera on for ~30 minutes and my phone battery went from 98% to 62%. Your experience will differ. For sure my 5+ year old G3 phone battery is nowhere near its original 3000mAh. May be best for you to guess you'll get an hour of power before your phone will need juice. Temperature accuracy: I brought a pot of water to boil on my stove and viewed thru the Seek compact camera. The imaging spot jumped around due to the rigorous boiling, and was reporting temperatures of 207-210 degF. Or, when I image a person, the camera shows readings of 96-97 degF. These are both more than good enough for the current and expected work I plan with this camera. IMAGES (attached) One pic is my fireplace. You can see logs in the fireplace. The heart-shaped glow centered above the fireplace is a hanging wreath at room temp (bright). You can see the horizontal mantle, the candles on the mantle and even draped decoration. Lower left corner reading of 78F is the edge of a charging plug. Another picture is of my front door - poor insulation around the door perimeter. The door window showed 57F. I have clear heat-shrink plastic insulation covering this window. The thin plastic insulation might be invisible to the Seek camera and it might be reading the temperature of the inside surface of that window. The high temp reading in the lower right corner is from an adjacent heat register. 3rd picture shows exterior wall next to my kitchen sink. Can you see the dish-drying rack, a coffee filter cone and a wall plug and power cord on the right? What troubles me is the dark blob that's about in the center of the pic. It's . the light/disposal switches. Even though I previously insulated that plate with 'foam pads' from a big box store and later w/Great Stuff, it's still really cold. The cold even 'flows' down the wall and chills my sink counter. The Seek compact reveals that there's ~6" x 4" section in the wall cavity that's missing insulation. The camera revealed 3 other exterior wall outlets in my kitchen with the same missing insulation defect. 4th picture is a section of exterior wall. Maybe you can ID what it shows without my description and then decide for yourself if the image quality from the camera is useful. I'm very happy with the performance/price ratio. Its' working really well and I anticipate getting lots of data that will direct my work to make my house more comfortable, less costly, and more environmentally green. Thanks again to the positive detailed reviews from people before me. Good luck to those of you considering this Seek compact camera.. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unbelievable value *by G***O on July 2, 2015* I've been using thermal imagers professionally for about 30 years. This Seek unit isn't anywhere close to a state-of-the-art military/tactical, laboratory or commercial unit today. But, for a cheap, tiny plug-in for the bottom of my new Android phone, it's extremely impressive - I would have thought it had been delivered from an alien spaceship less than 10 years ago (By comparison, I've been expecting real smartphones since before the Apple Newton). I haven't really used its new near-price competition, the new FLIR C2 or the 2nd gen FLIR One extensively yet, but I'm far more impressed with this unit than the first generation FLIR One (iPhone 5 caddy form factor). Last year, I was impressed enough with the original FLIR One that I nearly bought an iPhone 5 just to get one (as much as I like and respect FLIR, I'm glad I decided to procrastinate). First, the image resolution: if you're used to multi-megapixel digital photo cameras, forget about it - that's not what you're getting with the Seek, or any other thermal in a price range less than a Tesla (or two or three, or twenty). Thermal is about 20 years behind that, dollar for dollar (image worse than the first Nikon digital I bought back in '93-'94). However, the resolution is about four times what you'd get with the 1st gen FLIR One's Lepton imager. The Seek image is very, very pixelated, and the long time constant video averaging requires one to hold it it very steady or the image will smear (think 1/4 - 1/2 second hand-held still exposure steady on a conventional camera). Unlike FLIR's visual/thermal overlay (patented MSX), Seek requires you to swipe back and forth between the thermal and the camera's visual camera images in the app. You can capture visual or thermal, or half and half, but not one on top of the other. The result is a better thermal image and a better visual image on the Seek that may not look quite as good as the FLIR's MSX overlay as a captured snapshot. Some of my colleagues think the FLIR MSX approach is better at this price point. I disagree for now, but I can understand their argument. Having a pretty low general opinion of the current state of what passes for software engineering, and even lower of Android apps, I can say that the Seek app is better than most Android apps I've used, especially at this level of maturity and adoption (its adoption isn't even a rounding error compared to a Google app). It installed cleanly on my new Moto G 2nd gen with Lollipop (the cheapest smartphone platform I could find that might support it, as my previous Nexus 4 would not). It hasn't crashed or locked-up, and it cleanly sends captured images to G-mail or Bluetooth. The visual/thermal swap feature is useful, as are the various color palates ("Iron" looks cool on ads, and in reports, but I've always used gray scale for serious work). I don't like the inability to set gain or freeze the AGC (something the new FLIR's app can apparently do), but I can live with that at this price point (for the time being). Thermal differential sensitivity in a low contrast scene seems to be pretty good - I'll take Seek's claim of about 0.1 degrees C as about right. I don't expect this to be a calibrated radiometer, or to use it as a substitute for a high quality imager for point medical screening, so I'm not going to get wrapped-up with actual vs. reported temperature values in the app (and no one wants to read a discourse on emissivity variations). I hope Seek (and FLIR) will have emissivity adjustments and calibration methods in the not-too-distant future (and some education, as I see a lot of misunderstanding and inflated expectation in some of the posts/reviews). As a usability note: I lucked out with the Moto G 2nd gen; it wasn't listed as "supported" when I bought it, although the 1st gen G was, as was the Moto X, 1st and 2nd gen. I also lucked out that the USB is oriented in a way that the Moto's visual camera is pointed in the same direction as the Seek, so that a back-and-forth overlay or split is easy. Not sure I'd be quite as happy if I found that I had to use one of the extension USB cables to orient it with one hand, while holding the phone with the other. Finally, the imager comes with a cute, really well-designed and constructed hard little carrying case. I can thrown it in my briefcase, backpack or cargo pant pocket, and not even think about it. Nice touch! Bottom line: for those with a realistic understanding of the current state-of-the-art, this is amazing. If you want to get into the world of thermal imaging at a really reasonable price point, or you're just looking for a cool toy that's about the same price as a high-end 802.11 AC router, it's worth giving this a try. If you wait six months or a year, there will probably be something better. But, you'd probably still be using a typewriter and a Western Electric phone if that was the #1 consideration. ### ⭐ Junk... from start to finish... *by A***R on February 27, 2019* This was a huge let down. I wanted to love this product but it really disappointed me. Just to be clear, I am reviewing the most expensive variant, the UQ-AAA Compactpro for Android (the one with the red color around the lens). I want to be clear on this because it could be easy for someone to think my comments are related to the cheaper versions... since they look so similar. I have a Note 9, so I knew I needed a high end (not the cheap ones you can find) adapter to go from the device's Micro-USB to the newer USB-C that the newer phones have. I also knew I didn't want to be constantly taking my heavy duty case off the phone, so the adapter made tons of sense all around. While inconvenient, that was really on me and not the product. However, I went through 3 different adapters and couldn't get it to work with my high end Note 9 (product fail #1) despite the website indicating that with an adapter, USB-C phones should work. Plan B was to use my perfectly working Note 4 which has a Micro-USB port. So after taking the Otterbox case off, it took forever for the app to recognize the camera (product fail #2) with a phone that was supposedly fully compatible. When it did, the picture quality was really bad. It was very hard to make out any shapes or outlines unless the temperature gradient was significant (like a human, animal, heat vent, etc.). I came to realize that the missing "visible spectrum" lens that the Flir competitor uses is actually very needed here to make out objects in homes. Let me be clear THE PICTURES THIS COMPANY POSTS ON THE DESCRIPTION IN AMAZON ARE NOT REAL. I think that's my biggest gripe, are these blatantly misleading pictures that SEEK is using on the Amazon product pages. It shows very clear electical panels and industrial looking ductwork pictures with the temp gradient as well. YOU WILL NOT GET THAT QUALITY OF PICTURE. Without the second camera lens that the Flir product has, you only get blobs of color for 70 percent of the time. Once I had resigned myself to the lackluster picture... the next day the camera stopped giving correct temperatures. So now I have a really bad picture with temp readings that are complete nonsense. For example, I was attempting to see how much heat I was losing out of my gas fireplace, so I looked at it through the camera. It was telling me that the tile around the fireplace was 5-15 degrees farenheit (yes... I double checked to make sure it didn't mysteriously flip to celcius) but those temperatures weren't possible. It was about 38 degrees outside and 65 degrees inside, so there was no way for the reading to be correct. I moved it over to my hand and it showed about 80 degrees farenheit, but when I went back to the fireplace it went back to 15 degrees. I tried it on my son's room and everything in there hovered around 40-50 degrees, which again wasn't right. I reinstalled the app but nothing changed. I mean it's great in theory to have a -40 to 600 degree range, but when the product can't execute at room temperature who really cares about that right? I reached out to the manufacturer website and emailed them. Their response was the final straw that told me to send it back. They told me to check my security settings on my phone to make sure there wasn't an issue (didn't bother to explain to me what settings they were even referencing) and if not then to "talk to Amazon because it sounds like you may have a defective camera". Ya think? Since when does the manufacturer tell me to take it up with the store instead of fixing/replacing their product??? I was done with this company at that point. I packaged the camera up and sent it back less than a week after I received it. Piece of junk. Pros: - Its small and comes with a carrying case. Ok... that's it. That's all I can come up with. While it does have other potential advantages over the comparable Flir model, one of that matters because it doesn't actually work well. Cons: cons: -Horrible picture quality, even in the $365 top of the line model. - The app is absolute trash. It's not user friendly and is essentially one big sales pitch to get you to buy something else. - Temperatures are bogus and misleading - Website compatibility information is trash and isn't correct. Don't buy this product! I'll be purchasing a Flir top model once Amazon credits my account for the return. 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