GoPro 12 Bluetooth Audio

GoPro has just released the 12 version of their flagship Herp Black camera. It brings many improvements despite being based on (almost) the same hardware as the predecessor - the GoPro 11. And it marks the trend by being the first camera capable of connecting to a Bluetooth audio device. For playback but most importantly - for recording.

Almost everyone today uses wireless Bluetooth audio for calls, teleconferencing, music, audiobooks. Action cameras (and just about any cameras) suffer from poor microphones. There is the whole crazy market of wireless microphones dedicated to work with video cameras. 

While the obvious would be to just use Bluetooth to record audio. But the digital camera industry had failed to see the obvious.

So hopefully, as the GoPro 12 fills this gap, the other manufacturers will follow. See the review by William Brawley, in particular the demo video of using Apple AirPods as the Bluetooth audio source.

Obvious, isn't it?