Most people have heard the saying If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Well these days it is more like if someone pulls out in front of you when you are driving and you don’t have a dashcam, is it their fault or yours? In situations where two drivers are blaming each other, there is a good chance you will end up taking some of the fault. It’s even worse when it comes to people trying insurance fraud. Having footage can be important and having multiple angles is even better which is why some of today's dashcams have 2, 3, or even 4 cameras. I’ve been testing out the Nextus 5 from Vantrue which has 4 cameras and spoiler, just a day into my testing we hit a deer. In the long drawn-out process of getting things repaired, we ended up still having damage after the repair and the footage from the Nexus 5 helped prove that the deer did hit that area. So today I’m going to dive into the Nexus 5’s features, talk about the installation, and of course, show you how it performed. So let’s check it out!

Product Name: Vantrue Nexus 5

Review Sample Provided by: Vantrue

Written by: Wes Compton

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Packaging and Accessories

Before checking out the Vantrue Nexus 5, I did need to get everything opened up and you might think there would just be the front and back cameras and a few samples but there is more than that in the Nexus 5’s box alone. On top of that Vantrue has a few different accessories for most of their dash cams. They sell lens filters, MicroSD cards, and wireless remotes which looking back I regret not also getting. But they also have a few different options to help you wire things up if you don’t want to just have the dash cam plugged into your cigarette lighter. When doing that in most cars it will turn the camera off when you park the car so you will lose all of the parking mode protections. I have the Voltage Display OBD Cable, and the Voltage Display Hardwire Kit that we will check out here as well.

First up though is the packaging for the Nexus 5 itself and Vantrue has kept the packaging extremely simple here. The top/front of the box is all white and has just a picture of the Nexus 5 along with the rear camera and that is it. It isn’t until you turn the box around that you even see the Vantrue brand name or the model name which are still small on the back. The back of the box shows the Nexus 5 front camera installed alongside of a rearview mirror and someone holding their phone up showing the live view from the app. They have QR codes for the contact page on their website and a link to the Vantrue Facebook page as well. Up top, they do have a lot of the main features all listed out and that’s about all you will find on the outside of the box.

When you open the box up they have orange trim on the inside and then right on top is a paper covering everything that shows you which plug the rear camera plugs into and which plug the power cable plugs into. Apparently, people getting those mixed up is an issue. They are both USB Type-C so it can happen but I’m glad Vantrue went this route rather than making either connection proprietary. Under that paper, you will find both the front and rear cameras wrapped up in soft plastic bags and sitting in a foam tray to keep them safe. Then on the left is a box with a hole on the top to help pull it out and a drawing showing that you will find the mount and power cable inside. You will need to pull the foam tray out as well. Up under that is a second box which has a hole in the top like the other box and a line drawing of the rear camera cable on it.

There is a full quick user guide included to help with the installation and further use and you also get two bright yellow and red protected by Vantrue stickers in English and German. You also get a small microfiber rag, two adhesion promoter wipes, and two tempered glass sheets that look just like a phone screen protector. These aren’t for the screen, you use them during the installation.

For cables, there are a few. You have a long thick Type-C cable with straight plugs on both ends. This is the cable that goes to the rear camera. It also comes with Velcro straps that can be reused to wrap up extra cable length. You also have a Type-C to Type-A cable, this cable is a lot shorter and it is only used for your initial setup or if you plug the Nexus 5 in inside later. This powers it up and I will say now from experience that a standard Type-C charging cable will not power the Nexus 5, you will need this cable. Then you get a long but slightly thinner cable that plugs into your power plug or cigarette lighter and has a 90-degree plug on the other end. For mounting you have an extra 3m double-sided sticky tape for both the front and rear cameras in case you need a re-do. You have the front mount which has the double-sided sticky tape already installed, and an orange trim tool to help route your cables around. The power plug does have a Type-A USB connection on it, so you can still pass through the power to charge a phone if you go in this direction. It also has a light to let you know it is powered up.

The front camera mount has a USB Type-C plug on the side that passes power through up to the camera. The mount itself has double-sided sticky tapes to your windshield but the camera has a magnetic mount to make it easy to remove. The rear camera also comes with a warning around it to make sure you install it facing the correct direction and the main camera has a sticker covering the screen with instructions on how the buttons work.

As I mentioned at the start, I also got both of the hard wire kits in to check both options out. I’m not new to hard-wiring things into cars, but this is going into my wife's car which is newer as well. I didn’t want to cut up any wiring and risk having any potential issues long term. Both of the kits have the same box design which is the opposite of the camera which was all white. These are black and have simple white line drawings of the in-line voltage controller on the front along with a basic “Hardware Kit for Dash Cam” to not be too specific. Then on the sides, they just use a sticker to designate the modal number on each.

When you open the up they have a thank you for choosing Vantrue across the front edge. Then you will see that the OBD plug is significantly simple with just the cable wrapped up. But on the right you have the cable wrapped up as well and then a bundle of additional wires for the Voltage Display Hardwire Kit.

The OBD Type-C hardware kit has a user guide to help you with the installation and setup. Then you have the cable itself. This cable is long with way more than enough length to reach anywhere you might have your camera mounted. This gives you flexibility in how you route the cable later. One end has an OBD plug on it then not far from that is a box and then at the end a right-angled Type-C connection just like the cable that comes with the camera. The box inline is interesting though. Both hardwire kits have this and it is important. Because you are hard-wiring, the camera will get power all of the time. This box keeps an eye on your voltage and has a readout. You then have a switch on the side that will turn the camera power off depending on the voltage. It has three settings and works with both 12-volt and 24-volt. The reason for this is if you park for a long time, especially with a lot of noise or motion, the camera can drain a battery. It makes sure to leave enough power to not damage the battery and leave you room to start the car. This also has a double-sided tape mount on the bottom as well. The OBD plug end plugs into your OBDII port which all 1996 and newer cars would have and pulls voltage from there. It doesn’t pass through like some designs, so you will need to unplug it if you ever plug in a scanner, but this is a great simple option.

The second hardware kit has the same main cable setup with a right-angled Type-C connection on one end and the voltage safety box in line. Where things change here though, where the other kit had the OBD plug, this has three smaller wires. Black for ground which has a C-shaped fork connection that you slide under a screw. Then two bullet connections, one is a yellow cable which is an accessory on power, and a red cable for always on power. You then get two different bags with car fuse taps and the female bullet connections on each. This lets you pick what fuse type you have and you can remove a fuse in your car and plug the tap in and put your car's fuse into the tap as well. This cuts in and provides power and from the fuse block, you can find both always-on and accessory power quickly. Each tap does have a 5 amp fuse already installed for the dash cam to keep that safe as well.

Photos and Features

With the accessories all aside, there are just the two main cameras that make up the Vantrue Nexus 5. The larger of the two is the front-mounted camera which has the screen and controls everything. That is just under 5 inches at 123 mm long and 43 mm tall. The rear camera is smaller at 86 mm wide and 30 mm tall, significantly smaller than the front camera.

I touched on it in the packaging section but the main camera for the Nexus 5 does come with a white sticker covering up the entire screen to protect it. This gave Vantrue a nice location to put instructions on how all of the buttons work. Specifically touching on press and long press actions which each of the five buttons has. With the sticker off you can see the 3.19 Inch display which takes up most of the space. Next to that on the right is the inside-facing camera. The Nexus 5 has 4 cameras in total. The front inside-facing camera is a 1080p camera and has a lens angle of 160° to pick up most of the interior. You can twist the camera independently from the display part to angle it down or up depending on your installation. Around the display is a black bezel that has the Vantrue branding as well as the Nexus 5 model name.

Flipping around to the front of the front main camera we have the grey section on the left with the Vantrue branding, this is where the interior camera is. Then in the middle is a recessed area for the magnetic mount. This has a five-pin pass-through to pass the power from the USB connection that hooks to the mount as well as to communicate with the GPS which is in the mount. Then on the right is the main camera which is set apart from the other three with a large lens and it also supports a CPL filter that Vantrue sells to cut down on reflections and increase contrast. This camera has a higher resolution than the rest with a max resolution of 2592x1944P at 30 FPS. This is a Sony STARVIS 2 IMX675 5M Ultra-low light sensor and supports a Wide Dynamic Range.

The ends of the main camera are round, fitting the overall design of both cameras which are tube-shaped. One side has the N5 branding, this is the end that would be farther away from the driver. Facing the driver is the side with a bright orange button in the middle. This is the power button when you long press it, but a short press will trigger an event and save all four current videos. That same end also pops off and under it, you have a small reset button and the micro SD card location. The Nexus 5 doesn’t come with a MicroSD card, you will need to provide your own. Vantrue does break down what you can expect for recording length depending on card size as well as how many cameras you are running at the time. It’s too long to break down here but with 4 cameras you can expect 3 hours with a 64 GB card up to 25 hours with a 512GB which is the largest size supported surprisingly.

The top-down view shows off a lot of venting to help keep the Nexus 5 running cool but it also has a Type-C connection for the rear-mounted camera. I’m going to touch on it more when I talk about the installation and performance but I would love to see this also be included in the base mount. In short, you have a nice magnetic mount to make the camera easy to remove but then if you are running the rear camera you have to unhook it still. It just seems like an afterthought. On the bottom, you do have more vents but there is a row of buttons that cuts down on the number of vents possible here. They also have your serial number printed on the bottom and a small IR receiver for the optional remote as well. The four buttons will function differently depending on what screen you are on but there are a few base functions like turning the wifi on or off, turning the microphones on or off, swapping between different picture-in-picture modes for the display screen, and turning on parking mode manually. Right next to them, there is also a small microphone hole as well to make sure it picks you up singing to your music.

I did also get a few shots of the included mount attached to the main camera. You can see the power input on its side and how the mount is angled to fit a windshield angle and keep out of the way of the camera.

Like with the front-mounted camera, the rear camera for the Nexus 5 has two cameras as well which is how we get to a total of 4 cameras. The inside-facing camera has a square design, which houses infrared LEDs just like the inside-facing front camera to light things up at night. For the rear camera, both the side and outside cameras can be adjusted because the mount is built in and isn’t adjustable. This inside-facing camera has the same 1080P resolution and 160° lens angle as the front inside camera. Beyond that, there is another microphone back here, and facing the inside it has the FCC certifications as well as a note that both are 2 MP CMOS sensors.

The outside-facing end of the rear camera has a smaller camera side but that is only because it doesn’t need infrared LEDs to light things up. This camera has the same 1080p resolution but is slightly wider on the frame of view with a 165° lens angle. This end also has the Vantrue branding facing out but most of that is covered by the built-in mount in the center which has 3M double-sided sticky tape preinstalled.

The end view once again shows off the tube shape with both ends being rounded. One has the same wave-like design as we saw on the front camera. Then the other has a Type-C connection that runs all the way and plugs into the main camera.

The shot showing the front and rear camera together really puts the size difference into perspective. The compact design of the rear camera is nice, I do wish that the front camera was a little smaller even if it meant losing the display. Other than when doing a few small adjustments I have mostly just used the app in those situations.

Installation and Performance

When it comes to performance there are a few different aspects that we need to touch on. There is the installation experience, software, and then of course the actual performance as well. With that in mind, we might as well start with the installation to get things going. You can have a Dashcam professionally installed and Vantrue even has it as an option in the accessories listing on their website for people in New York. On top of that, you can use the base kit for your installation, plugging it directly into the DC power/cigarette lighter port and running your wires just all over the place and initially, I did this install because I didn’t think I would have time to get things installed better before our vacation. But just a day before we left I found the time to sneak out and work on things. There are a few things you have to do to get things installed. You need to run the rear camera wire from the front to the back of your car/truck/van, you have to mount both the front and rear cameras, and then you get power to the main front camera. Vantrue gives you a wipe to clean the location you are going to mount then a fresh tempered glass screen protector to install first that you then mount the camera to. This should make removing it later easier and isn’t going to damage anything which can be especially important in the rear with rear defrost lines. They do ask that you not install on those lines, but as you can see in the pictures below, in our 2016 Buick Regal the lines go all the way up to the top so that wasn’t an option. The rear camera also doesn’t have the adjustability that the front mount has, you can tilt both of its cameras up or down but if you are twisted things are going to be sideways and there isn’t any fixing that. That said the rear camera mounted quickly and you can see the Type-C cable running out of the side from it. I, like most people, ran the rear camera cable through the headliner but I do wish this end of the cable had a 45-degree connection or even a 90-degree connection. With it going straight in, the cable is hard to deal with, and because this is an especially thick cable it fights back. In the third picture, you can see that the cable is still hanging down slightly even now and it drives me crazy.

Thankfully the front camera at least has the rear camera connection on the top so the thick cable and straight connection weren’t an issue here. I still wasn’t a fan of that connection going directly to the camera, but I will talk about that more later. For this camera, they suggest it on the driver's side which for me at least put it right up in my face so I ended up going with to the right of the rearview mirror. This car has lane and break warnings and with that, the sensors are all right behind the mirror or I would have tried to just hide it behind the mirror except for the inside-facing camera. I was really worried that even this location would be too in the way but as it turned out, it worked well and hasn’t been an issue. The mount is installed easily on the tempered glass mounting location. From there I just had to get the cables hooked up. I had already run the rear camera cable so that went along the outside edge up under the headliner and dropped down. I ended up doing the same with the hardware kit as well.

Vantrue provided both of their hardware kits and I went in planning on using the fuse jumper-style kit because that would be the least noticeable in the future. Sadly though it only took one look at the fuse block to know that the jumpers wouldn’t fit, there just wasn’t much height clearance or clearance around the outside edges as well. So I had to change my plan and go with the OBD II plug kit. I pulled the side panel of the driver's side dash off and that gave me space to route the cable from the OBD II port up to the driver's side A-pillar, this would let me get the cable up to the headliner. From there I started at the Nexus 5 itself and ran the cable and dropped it down into the side of the dash. Then on the other end, I plugged in the OBD II plug and ran all of the extra cable into the side of the dash as well. I had enough room to mount the voltage safety box here and to also zip tie up all of the extra cable length so it is out of the way.

With the installation out of the way, I did need to get my settings dialed in. You shouldn’t need to play with settings much, but you will have to use the app often to view footage so this is going to be a big part of your Nexus 5 experience. First up I did get a few pictures of the menu navigation when using the dashcam directly. The four buttons function similarly to how a monitors menu will work, the left button is the okay button when in the menu, you have left and right navigation, then a back button to take you back a layer in the menu. The initial setup will prompt you things like your language, wifi frequency settings, preferred date and time formats, time zone, and more.

The first time you connect to the Nexus 5 with the Vantrue app you will be prompted for any firmware updates.

So the app has some functionality even when you aren’t connected to the dashcam directly. The landing page you will end up on when you open the app, it shows you any Vantrue devices that you have and gives you the option to add one or connect to a device. Down at the bottom though you also have the album page, store, and about pages that work without being connected. The store just lets you pick your region and open up different online stores to shop for more Vantrue products. The About page has app-specific settings like dark or light mode. The album is where you are going to be at most of the time. When not connected, this is where you can see any downloaded video, events, or photos. When you click connect it will reach out via Bluetooth and then connect over wifi. I wish you didn’t have to be so close to access this. I would find it a lot more useful if I could come home and go inside and because the dashcam is still in parking mode connect then when on the couch or at my desk it would be a lot easier. As it sits you can only connect when sitting in the car. On that same note, I would love it if the dashcam would just connect to my home wifi and let me access that way which would give even more range. I’m just a lot less likely to access files when I have to sit in the car and slowly go through everything. This is fine for an accident, but if someone did something stupid or funny and you wanted to tell your SO, this might be more trouble than you are willing to go through for the 2-minute conversation.

Once connected to the Nexus 5 the landing page has a live view of all of the cameras up top and then at the bottom you have a few controls. There is also a gear in the top right corner that opens up the menu settings and honestly, this is a lot easier to navigate than the on-screen menu, but it does take a little time to get connected. You can full-screen the live view. You have a button that looks like a graph that will open up the mileage and other drive stats which I have included what those look like as well. You get a start time and end time, how much time you were driving and how much was resting, and details like altitude changes, average and max speeds, and more. Back on the main page you can turn the microphone on or off, flip the cameras, take a picture, turn the recording off, and open up the album of footage and pictures directly on the dashcam. That last one you will use a lot, other than pulling the SD card out and plugging it into a PC this is how you will access your footage.

Let’s quickly run through the menu options, there are two pages worth of options with some just being on or off on the main menu. But a lot opens up into another page with even more options. The first important option is what resolution and the number of cameras you want to run. The Nexus 5 has four cameras with the front running at up at up too 1944P by default the front was set to 1440p. You then have three other 1080p cameras as well. The setting I found myself adjusting the most is the G sensor setting page. On that menu page, you can adjust all three axis of the sensor. This will automatically set an event when it senses an impact but I found that especially with the up-down setting it picks up hitting a bump a lot. I have a pothole in my neighborhood, a railroad track nearby, and the parking garage for my wife's work that constantly sets it off, and tweaking that without losing the ability for it to go off if something important happens is a fine line.  You can also adjust how long each loop is, this is how long each recording from the Nexus 5 is in file size. You can even go as far as adjusting the exposure on each of the four cameras.

The stamp setting page lets you decide what information is included in your footage. The date and time is important but you may not care about having Vantrue branding for example. The speed setting is also one you might consider removing. If you were to have to use footage from an accident this could also be used against you. The parking mode is how the Nexus 5 functions when you are parked. You can set it up to just keep an eye out for impacts, you can have it record at a low frame rate or low bitrate. What I have been playing with is motion detection. I’m still not sure what the best option is, but ideally, you don’t want it to record endless footage when you are parked, and not recording anything when parked is losing one of the big features offered.

So you can use the main camera buttons for most functions but the two main functions that you may want to change often is turning the inside microphone on or off and letting it know to save a recording. Vantrue does have a wireless remote that can do those two things for you. But if you want, you also can use the voice controls. This took a little while to figure out, but once I found this menu in the settings it was simple. They have listed off everything you can say. You can adjust the sensitivity, but the standard worked well for me. The big one here is “lock the video” and of course off audio and turn on audio would cover the microphone on or off options that the remote offers.

Last up you can change the warning notifications around to turn it off for specific actions if you prefer. There is also a system info page where you can check on the software version on all of the cameras.

With all of the menu out of the way, I’m sure by now you are curious how navigating your footage works. When you open up the album there are three pages in total with tabs up top splitting things up. You can also flip between the SD card and local up top. The main split though is between normal footage, events, and photos. All of the recordings will be on the normal page but only events triggered by the crash protection, parking protection, or manual triggers using the side button or voice controls. Photos are their own thing all together, you can trigger a photo using the voice controls. For events, as long as you don’t have too many false triggers this isn’t going to be too hard to look through but with all four cameras running on the Nexus 5, there are four different files for each 1-3 minute long clip. This gets crazy in the normal folder meaning a LOT of scrolling just to get through today's footage. This could be improved significantly by linking all four of the active camera files together in a way where you don’t have to see them all here and the ability to search by date or time would help too. The best improvement here would be an overall timeline that would let you scroll through by day and time and see activity and events. I love that the Nexus 5 records so much footage, but the idea of even digging back a day or two to check footage is overwhelming if you don’t tag it as an event or if you don’t pull it right away.

When you open up a video from the SD card it will play through and you can fullscreen it. But some of the functionality isn’t available until you download that file to your phone and play it from there. From the SD card you can skip forward or back through files and open the milage stats or down at the bottom you can delete or download the file. When playing a file saved to your phone though you can also see the full GPS information of where you traveled for the entire video and you can cut the file down in size here if needed.

Last up is to talk about the actual video quality that you get with all four of the cameras and we have to break that down into two categories. The front camera and the other three because the front camera is in a class of its own. I put together a video below showing some of the footage and it is easy to spot the front camera footage because it is especially crisp and clear which is exactly what you want. I had no trouble reaching license plates on this footage when driving around as well as seeing a lot that is going on inside of cars as well. For the other three cameras, there is a step-down but they do still perform well. Our rear outside view camera doesn’t look as well but that is because our rear window tint is starting to fail and needs replaced. If not for that, the view would be clear as well. As for the inside cameras, you might be wondering why you would even want or need inside cameras like this. Well, the most obvious answer is anyone who is a gig worker like Uber or Lyft, this gives a good video and recording of anything happening in your car but it would also apply to anyone delivering food or anything else that someone would accuse you of tampering. If that isn’t you, why would you still want the inside cameras? The main one is that these give additional views around your car in case of any situation that comes up. If someone hits you from the side, a front and rear camera isn’t going to catch any of that but you can see those views mostly from both cameras. It can also be helpful in any situation where someone breaks into your car or is messing around on the sides. That said I wouldn’t blame anyone for wanting to turn one or both of those views off, it can be weird to see yourself especially if you are in an accident. Long term, I will most likely turn one of the two interior cameras off and hopefully get our tint fixed so that the view is better.

In the example videos below I show a few mid-day drives and some with the sun causing reflections as well which was an issue mostly on the rearview camera as well. Night footage was solid including just over 24 hours after I set the camera up when we hit a deer just before leaving for vacation. That footage ended up helping when we disputed damage that we found later, our insurance initially declined it because they didn’t think the deer reached that far over but it was clear on the video.

How has the overall experience been? Well, there are a few areas where I would love to change things. Like with the Type-C connection for the rear camera plugging right into the main camera. You have such an easy-to-use magnetic mount to be able to pull it out when you need to and having to mess with that connection messes that up. The size of the rear camera has been great, but I would love to have the cable connection face up to keep the wire out of view. The front camera is larger and would be in the way if I hadn’t put it over on the passenger side. But because of that, there is a small section of all of our front footage that is blocked. I seldom want to navigate using the built-in screen or controls but logging in using the app is still a little slow as well.

Overall and Final Verdict

With all of our testing out of the way, we can finally step back and get a better overall look at how the Vantrue Nexus 5 performed. The biggest factor in a dashcam is going to be how well its video performance is and the Nexus 5 performed extremely well in that aspect, especially with its front-facing camera which uses a Sony STARVIS 2 IMX675 5M Ultra-low light sensor. On top of that camera, you get an impressive three additional views to help cover every possible angle. The three additional cameras all performed well as well, with the main issues I ran into there being glare, especially on our rear camera, and having the camera looking through our back window really showed just how bad our rear tint has gotten already. The two different inside cameras give you a view out of your side windows, but they also will be great for any gig workers who are doing rid sharing or deliveries looking to protect themselves.

The installation was relatively easy but I do also have some experience with cars. If you don’t want wires run all over the place but also aren’t comfortable hiding the wires you may still want to consider a professional installation which Vantrue does help with if you live in New York, but everyone else is on their own there. They have two different options for hard wiring including a plug-and-play ODB II port plugin option that worked well. Once hardwired, the camera will be able to keep an eye on your car when it is parked while also protecting your battery with a voltage limit to turn things off before it leaves you stuck with a dead battery if you are parked for too long.

The front camera is significantly larger than the rear camera. The rear was compact enough that it wasn’t a concern but for the front camera, you are going to want to get it in the exact right spot for your setup so it isn’t in the way of your view as well. That is one of the areas that I think could be improved on, given the voice controls and having every menu option not only available in the app but easier to use in the app I would be fine seeing the display screen go away if it would mean a little more compact design for the front camera. They gave the front camera an easy-to-use magnetic mount that removes it if you are concerned about it attracting attention or if you want to bring it inside to download something. But the rear camera connection seems to be an afterthought here with that still being connected directly to the camera when the camera power plugs into the mount. That rear camera cable was also thicker and harder to work with which became an issue in the rear because it didn’t have any angle to the connection to help tuck it up and out of view leaving a cable sticking way out and drooping. My only other issue was with how you parse all of the footage that four different cameras provide. This footage adds up quickly and because it is split up into 1-minute increments can be a lot of scrolling just to get through one day. I would love to see all of the camera footage for that time being tied together to make it easier to look through and maybe add in searching or even better, a timeline that you can look through.

Overall, even though there is room for improvement. If your goal is to get the best possible footage and to have coverage of both ends of your car inside and out the Vantrue Nexus 5 is still a great option. You have a built-in GPS that not only can track your speed if you want it, but it will show where you are going on a map when looking at footage. The parking mode is huge, you are a lot more likely to get small damage to your car when you aren’t around at all and this is a way to at least keep an eye out for that or anything else suspicious. They also have used a supercapacitor rather than a battery which isn’t something I could test but helps when it comes to extreme heat and cold which where I live I will see both depending on the seasons.

For pricing, the Nexus 5 isn’t cheap with its MSRP being $399. But Vantrue often has deals including an $80 coupon that they had recently and today as I publish this it is even cheaper for Prime Day at $279.99. That Prime Day deal is a really good price.

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