What Xiaomi Mi drone 4k interests you?

Xiaomi Mi drone was introduced on May 2016 with two variants, the 4K and the 1080p.Now the 1080P is available while the 4K will be on sale on March 3 this year.

Here are 7 cool features of the Xiaomi Mi Drone 4K.

Portability

The Mi Drone is extremely lightweight and modular. The complete drone can be disassembled to fit into a backpack. In fact, Xiaomi will itself offer a backpack for the Mi Drone at a $15.

Camera 

The Xiaomi Mi Drone 4K has an inbuilt camera that consists of 12 megapixels of resolution and a 12.4 megapixel Sony sensor. This ensures that the picture you capture will be of a very high quality. Moreover, the drone is capable of shooting in 4K; thus, providing videos with high resolutions. Though there are many more drones that offer better video resolutions, but the Xiaomi Mi drone 4K will certainly satisfy you with most of your video recording needs. The camera is mounted on motorized three-axis gimbals so that you get amazing images. Moreover, to make traveling easier with your quad, you can remove the cameras and fold the landing gear.

Flight time

With the Xiaomi, you’ll have a flight time of 27 min. However, you can deplete battery life at a much faster rate when using features such as automatic departure and return. Just like a phone, when you push it to a certain limit, you’re going to see battery life diminish. It comes with a 17.4V 5199 mAh rechargeable battery that takes about three and a half hours to charge. Just like most other quads, we recommend buying a backup or two.

Long Range FPV Video Feed

Xiaomi states that the 4K variant provides a control range of up to 2 kilometers with live video. With this, Xiaomi is gonna give all the drone manufacturers a run for their money!

What’s more, the controller of the Mi Drone comes with an attachment for a smartphone which can act as a viewfinder (aka FPV monitor) for your Mi Drone!

Safty

The Xiaomi Mi drone 4K has both GPS and GLONASS for location tracking and maneuvering of the drone. Hovering is a cakewalk due to the onboard location sensors, and it also means that the drone knows at each point where exactly it is flying.

One thing we don’t see on most of the drones, however, is the ability to create a geofence to limit the movement of your drone. If your drone strays beyond that geofence, then it will automatically return to its home base.

Running the drone on low battery triggers its return function, and you will be relieved to find it back safe and sound.

Smarter in-flight

Mi Drone 4K has an auto-pilot feature included along with the easy to use flight controls. It has automatic takeoff and is also capable of landing and returning to you with just a simple command from the handheld controls.

And when you want to capture the right moment, it circles around the object to give you the perfect shots. Flight planning too gets simplified thanks to Xiaomi’s great technology.

Price

Xiaomi has priced the the 4K variant at $460. The price is less than half the prices of the majority of professional drones out there.

 

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Mavic Pro Initial Setup tutorial

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Now the Mavic Pro could ship within one week now. Join us to learn the initial setup of the DJI Mavic Pro, then you could get it into the sky soon after you received it.

Starting with the base pack, the DJI Mavic Pro ships with the drone itself, the remote control, three remote connection cables, a power cable for the remote, the charger for the removable drone battery and an extra pair of propellers.

The drone comes with only the rear propellers installed, giving you the opportunity to learn how to install the props before your first flight. Installation is very simple, match up the small white circle on the one propeller to the white ring around one of the motors, line up the pins on the underside, press the propeller down into the motor and give a little twist. It’ll pop into place or pop off if you didn’t do it right.

Match the other propeller and motor and repeat. Do not mix these up, one spins clockwise and the other counter- clockwise, installing backwards will create downforce, your drone will never get off the ground.

The Mavic Pro is a collapsible drone, which you’ll need to unfold before you can fly. Start with the front arms, simply unfold them from the side of the drone, they are spring loaded, so they’ll resist you a little, then pop right open.

The rear arms are folded underneath the drone. The propellers are installed, so please be careful when you unfold, but go ahead and fight that same spring-load until the arms pop into place.

Battery installation is as easy as lining it up and pressing it down. There are two little buttons on either side of the battery, pinch them together and pull up to remove the battery.

It is recommended to power on the remote before powering on the drone, so let’s talk about the remote first.

The remote for the DJI Mavic Pro is an impressively small, video-game inspired, controller. It has two antennae, which fold together and snap in place. There are two folding arms that mount your smartphone at the bottom. Supplied are cables with micro USB connector for Android devices, Lightning connector for modern iPhone and USB Type-C for whatever doesn’t fit above.

Smartphone connectivity can be managed through the micro USB port on the left side of the remote or through the full size USB port at the bottom. Use the side micro USB port to charge the remote itself.

You need to double tap the power button to turn on the remote, single press then immediately long press the power button until it powers up. A single tap will read out the current power level. This is true of the drone as well, double tap to power on.

You do not need to use your smartphone or small tablet with the DJI Mavic Pro, the supplied remote is enough to handle the majority of flight and photography needs. That said, there are extra functions and features only found within a connected smartphone running DJI’s app.

Head on over to the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store to download the appropriate version of the DJI Go app for your device.

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