Streaming, downloading footage, or adjusting your dash cam’s settings? You can now do them through your dash cam’s dedicated mobile app. The majority of the dash cam models from Thinkware, BlackVue, and VIOFO are now compatible with an app, which you can utilize by pairing your dash cam to your handy mobile device.

Thanks to technology, you can now pair these devices wirelessly! Apart from Wi-Fi, dash cam models have also started adding Bluetooth to help you manage your dash cam through your fingertips. In this article, we will discuss how this Bluetooth works, and which dash cam models support it.

The Wi-Fi capability on dash cams only allows the dash cam to pair wirelessly with your smartphone, eliminating the need for a separate internet connection. The primary distinction is that the dash cam communicates with the smartphone over Wi-Fi rather than Bluetooth.

Naturally, you might be wondering why it isn’t actually a Bluetooth connection. This is mainly because when it comes to downloading and streaming footage, this can be too much bandwidth for a standard Bluetooth connection, and Wi-Fi allows for a much quicker and stable streaming and viewing process for high-quality dash cam footage.

The reason behind using Wi-Fi connectivity instead of Bluetooth is mostly because of faster data transfer speeds. Wi-Fi is able to stream and download videos, and the process of downloading and streaming footage can consume too much data for a typical Bluetooth connection, especially with the high resolutions of modern dash cams.