There's no shortage of dashcam brands and companies nowadays, but very few of them offer LTE connectivity for easy remote access to videos, alerts, and livestreams. Owl Car Cam is one of them and now it also works on Android, after being compatible with iOS only at launch.

The Owl camera is expensive: you're looking at $349 for the cam hardware with one bundled year of LTE Instant Video service. This $99 yearly subscription includes unlimited alerts for break-ins, broken glass, dings, and dents, plus 60 minutes of remote viewing of videos per month. When those minutes expire, you can buy 60 additional minutes for $5/month or resort to using WiFi direct when near the camera, which is unlimited and free.

But you're getting many advantages for the added cost of the Owl compared to other cheap dashcams. You can livestream your car at any time, view the alerts remotely, locate your car, turn on a flood light to deter thieves, and record video on-demand with a voice command. Plus, if the camera gets stolen, it can get tracked and disabled. On the hardware side, the Owl has two 120-deg cameras, one of them facing inside but that can be disabled. It comes with a 2.4" touchscreen display, enough storage to save up to 14 days worth of video, an accelerometer and gyroscope, GPS, LTE, WiFi, and Bluetooth. It takes its power from the OBDII port on your car, so make sure that's supported before you purchase it.

The newly-released Android app brings all the features of the cam to your phone, plus a social feed of shared videos taken by other Owl owners. If you're interested in checking the camera out, you can buy it from the link below and our own Richard will be taking it for a spin soon, so look out for his review.

Source: Owl Car Cam

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