With numerous benefits, car dash cam (aka car DVR) has become increasingly popular during recent years especially in the emerging markets. They are widely used all around the world by regular drivers, driving teachers, taxi and bus drivers, truck drivers, police etc. The great quote goes: if a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million. As the car dash cam can record every detail during the driving route, most motorists buy the cam to protect themselves in case of any incidents especially with busier and busier roads where many things can happen all at the same time.
While keeping the main and utmost key features that the car dash cams are designed to perform, new varieties of functions are becoming easily available with the technology advancement. One of the latest features is the wifi car dash cam, which is becoming more & more popular in the car accessories market. Though wifi is not new at all since its inception, yet when it’s used in the car dash cam, I believe there are some strong reasons for its popularity.
1 – Mobility & connectivity
The wifi car dash cam is so powerful that you can never underestimate. The road trips could be fun, could be adventure and even could be one-in-a-million miracle. You probably heard about the astonishing Chelyabinsk meteor raining that Russian car dash cam owners have bragged for their capture the past years. With inbuilt wifi, the car dash cam provides the total mobility for those users of iPads and smart-phones. You can streamline the recording from your mobile device. You can play back after downloading from car dash cam. And most importantly, you can share freely on your social network any time from your smart devices instead of reading from the card memory in PC or laptop. This is exactly what hot vloggers are looking for.
2 – Minimize for discreet
Always the screen is a hinder to make the car dash cam small and slim. Yet with built-in wifi, the operation shifts to smart devices which can make screen-free come true. The smaller the dash cam, the easier to hide and less enticing to car thieves.
3 – Longer service life
For most car dash cams with wifi features, they do not have battery any more as they start recording along with car power on, which significantly increase the service life especially in the areas where the hot Sun regularly cooks the car. Moreover, no battery, no worries.
While with above pros the features in wifi car dash cam bring, I think there are cons as well. For instance, non-techies like my neighbor, synchronizing it to a smart device can be headache, though it’s quite easy and intuitive for most motorists.
So, will you favor in choosing a wifi car dash cam?