THINKWARE - Q800 PRO Dash Cam - Black/Blue

Name: THINKWARE - Q800 PRO Dash Cam - Black/Blue
Brand: THINKWARE
SKU: 6341884
Rating: 4.2 (344 reviews)

Model: TW-Q800PRO32CH

SKU: 6341884

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Key Specs
- Field of View: 140 degrees
- Automatic Incident Detection: true
- G-Sensor: true
- Recording Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (Refers to the number of pixels, both horizontally and vertically, used to capture video. The higher the resolution the finer the video detail that can be seen.)
- Forward Collision Warning: true
- Compatibility: Universal
- Wi-Fi Built-in: true (Able to connect directly to a wireless network without the use of an adapter.)
- Camera Mounting Location: Windshield
- Vehicle Camera Type: Dashboard
General
- Brand: THINKWARE
- Model Number: TW-Q800PRO32CH
- Product Name: Q800 PRO Dash Cam
- Color: Black/Blue
- Vehicle Camera Type: Dashboard
Recording & Playback
- Field of View: 140 degrees
- Automatic Incident Detection: true
- G-Sensor: true
- Recording Resolution: 2560 x 1440 (Refers to the number of pixels, both horizontally and vertically, used to capture video. The higher the resolution the finer the video detail that can be seen.)
- Frame Rate: 30 frames per second (The frequency at which consecutive images can be captured. The higher the frame rate, the more detail that can be captured.)
- Loop-Cycle Recording: Yes
- Image Sensor Type: CMOS (CCD and CMOS are the two main technologies used in image sensors. CCD, the older of the two types, turns analog light signals into digital pixels. This conversion happens without distortion, resulting in high-quality images. Newer CMOS sensors use transistors at each pixel to move electrical charges. CMOS sensors are typically less expensive, but also require more light to create distortion-free images.)
- GPS Enabled: true
- Camera Power Source: Vehicle battery
- Expandable Memory Compatibility: microSD, microSDHC
- Recording Feature: true
Alert
- Forward Collision Warning: true
- Lane Departure Warning: true
- Traffic Camera Alert: true
Compatibility
- Compatibility: Universal
- App Compatible: true (The product can be connected to a program or software application on a mobile device, which then receives collected data from the product.)
- Wi-Fi Built-in: true (Able to connect directly to a wireless network without the use of an adapter.)
- Operating System Compatibility: Android, Apple iOS
Features
- Lane Guidance: true
- Integrated Microphone: true
- Night Vision: true
Display
- Screen Included: false
Mounting
- Camera Mounting Location: Windshield
- Mount Included: true
- Mount Type: Adhesive
Input
- Number Of Auxiliary Inputs: 0
- Number of USB Port(s): 0
Dimensions
- Product Height: 2.38 inches (The out of box height of the item. Height is measured as the vertical distance from the bottom of the item to the top as it would be primarily used or placed.)
- Product Width: 4.21 inches (The out of box width of the item. Width is measured as the horizontal distance from one side of the item to the other as it would be primarily used or placed.)
- Product Depth: 1.28 inches (The out of box depth of the item. Depth is measured as the distance from the front of the item to the back as it would be primarily used or placed.)
- Product Weight: 0.23 pounds (The out of box weight of the item.)
Warranty
- Warranty - Parts: 1 Year
- Warranty - Labor: 1 Year
Other
- UPC: 888622008877

Ensure clear recording of road incidents with this Thinkware Quad HD dash camera. Wi-Fi connectivity enables downloading and sharing of recorded footage with a smartphone, and Super Night Vision 2.0 technology provides optimal brightness for low-light scenes. This Thinkware Quad HD dash camera comes with a hardwiring kit for parking surveillance purposes and a 32GB microSD card for video storage.

Integrated thermal protection: Provides additional dash cam safety and reliability in extreme temperatures.
Super Night Vision technology: Reduces noise and enhances image quality in low-light conditions.
1440p QHD recording: Captures all the details of every journey in highly detailed 2K resolution.
140° viewing angle: Offers expansive shooting coverage with minimal edge-to-edge distortion.
Built-in G-sensor: The three-axis gravity sensor activates the camera if your car is bumped or moved to automatically record hit-and-runs.
Advanced driver assistance system: Alerts the driver of potential forward collisions, lane departures, and front vehicle departures.
Built-in GPS: Tracks the speed, time, and route history of the vehicle while also enabling the dash cam to alert you of upcoming red-light and speed cameras.
Anti-File Corruption technology: Improves the reliability of your memory card by minimizing the risk of footage loss due to bad blocks and data corruption.
Wi-Fi connectivity: Allows you to share and download footage directly to a compatible iOS or Android smartphone with the THINKWARE CLOUD mobile app.
THINKWARE CLOUD app: Lets you check your vehicle's location and receive geo-fencing and driving impact notifications directly on your compatible iOS/Android smartphone.*
Parking surveillance mode: Records events triggered by impact and motion detection, and activates built-in car battery protection system to prevent vehicle battery drain.**
32GB microSD card included: Provides convenient and long-lasting operation.
Adhesive mount: Ensures simple mounting.
Integrated thermal protection: Provides additional dash cam safety and reliability in extreme temperatures.
Super Night Vision technology: Reduces noise and enhances image quality in low-light conditions.
1440p QHD recording: Captures all the details of every journey in highly detailed 2K resolution.
140° viewing angle: Offers expansive shooting coverage with minimal edge-to-edge distortion.
Built-in G-sensor: The three-axis gravity sensor activates the camera if your car is bumped or moved to automatically record hit-and-runs.
Advanced driver assistance system: Alerts the driver of potential forward collisions, lane departures, and front vehicle departures.
Built-in GPS: Tracks the speed, time, and route history of the vehicle while also enabling the dash cam to alert you of upcoming red-light and speed cameras.
Anti-File Corruption technology: Improves the reliability of your memory card by minimizing the risk of footage loss due to bad blocks and data corruption.
Wi-Fi connectivity: Allows you to share and download footage directly to a compatible iOS or Android smartphone with the THINKWARE CLOUD mobile app.
THINKWARE CLOUD app: Lets you check your vehicle's location and receive geo-fencing and driving impact notifications directly on your compatible iOS/Android smartphone.*
Parking surveillance mode: Records events triggered by impact and motion detection, and activates built-in car battery protection system to prevent vehicle battery drain.**
32GB microSD card included: Provides convenient and long-lasting operation.
Adhesive mount: Ensures simple mounting.

Whats Included

Adhesive cable holder
Car charger
Extra 3m tape
Hardwiring cable
MicroSD card with adapter
Mount with 3m tape
Owner's manual
THINKWARE Q800 PRO Dash Cam
USB-microUSB card reader
Adhesive cable holder
Car charger
Extra 3m tape
Hardwiring cable
MicroSD card with adapter
Mount with 3m tape
Owner's manual
THINKWARE Q800 PRO Dash Cam
USB-microUSB card reader

Q: If I purchase a 128gb micro sd card, How much recording time can I get before it loops over?

A: Hello There, On the Q800PRO you will get 596 Minutes of recording time before overwriting

Q: Does this camera capture on the sides of the vehicle? Can this device be used for to see anyone vandalizing your vehicle? I've had my car vandalized 3 times on my driver's side doors. If not, do u have such a device to capture?

A: No...it is only a front facing camera with 140 degrees of sight. There is a separate rear camera add on, but that only sees out the back window. The sides are NOT visible.

Q: Regarding the Cloud Function for this Q800PRO is there any subscription fee? If it does, how much?

A: Hello There, Since the Cloud Features use your Smartphone's Hotspot ( Data Plan) there is no fee/ subscription.

Q: Does this camera offer park mode?? (video record)??

A: Hello There, If the Dash Cam is powered with our Hardwiring Kit, OBD-II Harness, or iVolt Battery Pack, the Q800PRO Dash Cam will have the ability to enter parking mode when you turn off the ignition. The Q800PRO has 3 options for Parking Mode; Motion Detection, TimeLapse and Energy Savings Mode.

Q: Is the camera easily removed from the windshield or is it a permanent mount?

A: The device easily detaches from its mount. First unplug the connection, then apply a little pressure while moving device from left to right.

Q: Will the dash cam record if something small hits my car like another car door or shopping cart or the dash cam will only record from something hitting it if is hit will a certain amount of force?

A: You can adjust the sensitivity of the impact activation. Mine activates when I shut my car door or close the trunk.

Q: if there is an impact incident (accident), can the incident automatically be downloaded the my cell phone? this is in case I am unable to retrieve the micro card. or does it have to be manually downloaded?

A: Hello There, If you have the Dash Cam connected to a Hotspot (Smartphone Hotspot, In-Vehicle Hotspot, or Hotspot Device) while driving, you can set up the Strong Impact Upload. The Dash Cam will automatically send the phone connected to the account a notification and a 20 seconds incident clip. This can also be set up to send to multiple devices. That can then be downloaded to the device directly.

Q: Can we add a rear camera

A: The answer is yes. I have not seen it at BestBuy, but Thinkware does make it. Some other websites sell the 2 Channel together: https://www.blackboxmycar.com/products/thinkware-q800-pro-2k-qhd-dash-camera

Customers are saying

Customers find value in the Q800 PRO Dash Cam's high-quality video, ease of use, and effective parking mode. Many appreciate its compact size and good night vision capabilities, while some users experienced challenges with the app, Wi-Fi connectivity, and memory card compatibility. The price point was also a source of some negative feedback.

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Best option BestBuy carries
I'm not going to say that there isn't a better camera out there in the world, I'm just saying that as of the time I bought this I think it was the best option that I could get same-day from my local Best Buy. Its pricey and as always try to catch a sale, but its a good dash cam. At least at this price point it included the SD card and the hard-wiring cable so I did not have to buy anything extra. Directions sucked, no info on the hard-wiring cable and I mean sure, if you have installed a radio before you probably don't need wiring info about the hard wire harness but I am the type who likes reassurance of simple things. I was able to easily hard wire this into a 2020 Jeep Cherokee in about 30 minutes, but I have a fair amount of prior radio/remote start/12v experience too. Connecting via wifi to my android was not a big deal but I did find that sometimes you need to force-quit the app to reconnect. People who don't catch onto that may have frustrating experiences trying to connect and this is something the company should fix. The app itself is just OK. Does what it needs to do. Somehow I screwed up some settings to where it was not recording continuously even though it should have been and I am certain my settings should not have caused that, so I think this again is some app bug causing people frustration when they realize too late its not recording when it should have been. Definitely do a bunch of testing to make sure things are working right. My 30 minute install was nothing to the nearly 2 hours I spent trying to get settings dialed in. No matter what I tried using a parking mode seemed to break continuous recording when driving so I gave up on having a parking mode enabled. Some goofy things like that which just aren't working right and not really acceptable at this price point, but I am not going to un-install it now either. That brings me to a different piece of advice: Maybe use it with the cig light adapter for a while before hard-wiring it in. I went straight to hard-wire and after doing that I'm obviously too invested to not put up with some rough spots like the crappy app and settings issues. I got it back to where it records automatically, and any impact it saves in a special folder which is good. Night viewing I have not reviewed a lot of night footage but it seems to be excellent (once night mode is turned on for continuous recording, mine seemed to be defaulted to off weirdly). Quality low-light recording is a redeeming feature that brings it back up to 5 stars for me. They can easily improve the app post-purchase, but if the camera was low quality the best app in the world would never help. Hence I am setting 5 stars for the camera itself, even if the supporting app and such is weak at this time. I was able to do a clean install without buying anything extra, I got it working to where I am happy with it, night recording is good, its fully automatic and requires no input now that its installed. I am happy with that. The included memory card only seems to hold about 2 hours of video before looping over it, just an FYI. Its probably part of its smart memory management that keeps the memory card from getting wrecked from too many read/writes, etc. Despite being a 32 gig card it only seems to be using about 18 currently. One of the best things is that it does not have its own screen. Yes I consider this a huge plus and almost a requirement. Built-in screens are useless, realistically nobody is ever going to twist their neck around to look at a tiny 240x380 LCD screen to review footage when we all have high-resolution phones in our pockets, reviewing footage is definitely better off on a phone or pulling the card to put in a computer and all a built-in screen does is light up annoyingly at night to blind you in the dark for the first 30 seconds. That being said they really need to improve that app connectivity since its the main way people set their settings and such so its unacceptable that it has the reconnect issues that it does (like I said, just force quit the app and restart it, takes two seconds but most just won't realize to do that). I like that I have the option to add a rear camera some day (I probably will, when its in stock). BestBuy doesn't allow uploading video and I wanted to include still-shots captured from the video as examples but the pictures are so high quality that bestbuy won't let me upload those either because they are too large of files, so take that for what its worth (bestbuy needs to improve their review system to allow photos more than 5MB and videos!) Overall it should be slightly better for this kind of money but then again nothing else actually was better and within grasp when I wanted it, so they are a lazy leader in dash cams basically. They could easily do better but don't have to since no competition is on them hard enough yet. My argument is that if GoPro can give me a 10x better quality camera (picture/framerate/clarity) at almost the same price then clearly Thinkware is sitting on its laurels but yet somehow still leading.
Posted 5 years ago by andrewr
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good Overall, Mobile App Could Use Some Polish.
Overall, good dash camera, paired it with their rear view camera also purchased from BB. That is model TWA-F800R. Video quality is very good. I'm sure there are better, but camera quality and clarity definitely makes it easy to see what is going on or happened in the case of an accident. May or may not catch a license plate depending on lighting and angle, but still pretty good. I was unable to get signed up for a cloud account for some reason, never got a confirmation email from their server. Too bad as cloud storage would make this more convenient. The mobile app could use some polish. Need more options regarding the notifications. Right now they are either on or off and volume controls. I would like to turn off the startup intro but retain the speed camera and driver's assist notifications. No way to do that currently. Must listen to startup message and connect to wifi message EVERY TIME. Got old fast. Overall though, works great on our 2015 X5 BMW, and glad we purchased the unit. Small enough to not obstruct driver or passenger views.
Posted 4 years ago by DinanBMW
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Very sleek design
You have the ability to set up different options to customize it for the way you drive. I have both cameras, front and rear. You can purchase a quick connect harness separately. We’re worth it.
Posted 2 years ago by TerryW