1000 Series

Little bit of backstory, I got this drone for my 11th birthday years ago. I really liked it for the amount of control I had and how easy maintenance and upkeep was. However, I was flying when the wind over took the drone, and it flew into the bushes and I was never able to find it. As far as the manufacturing process, I would highly recommend putting a button on the remote that will sound a whistle from the drone so that way when you crash land you could actually find it. to continue, every time I try to use it I always have problems connecting to a drone. And when I do connect, the camera always freezes is really really laggy and it is I think the camera quality is probably worse than a Nokia. I think it would be much more enjoyable if the camera was better, if it was easier to connect, and if the app was not only easier to navigate, but also less laggy. I also believe it would be easier to use if you added a button on the remote to sound a whistle from the drone so you could find it when you crash land, which I’m sure will happen at least once thank you for taking the time to review my suggestions.

When previewing the videos after they’ve been recorded, they look decent. Trying to skip around in the video (even IF the video is on my phone’s local storage) results in a long load time. Takes about 5 seconds to load one part. Not to mention the stutters it has, which result in it being impossible to sync an external microphone. Once i actually get the video to any video editor and just click play like normal, the video plays fine for about 2 seconds and then hitches and gives an indistinguishable ~6 frames of video, and then repeats. Sometimes i have syncing issues with the app, like I’m connected to the drone’s wifi network and the app shows nothing, i can fix my an app or drone restart and if that fails, forgetting the network and reconnecting. Sometimes the photos take very long to capture, resulting in a blurry photo as the drone doesn’t want to stay in the same place for 5 seconds. Luckily, the issue only happens intermittently. The app isn’t very intuitive to use, i wish there was a separate panel to specify to save to a micro sd card or the phone’s storage. Almost forgot to mention, if you don’t have an sd card and save videos to your phone, it basically screenrecords your screen without the buttons in the way… the lag of the app is captured. It can also lag very heavily, like I’m walking with the drone in my hand and it runs just fine at what looks like 25fps but then lags and freezes for a few seconds, and then returns to normal. A benefit is that an internet connection is not required for the app. Just turn on the drone, connect your phone to the drones wifi network (the password is in the name,) and open the application. Although the app leaves much to be desired in terms of features, it (sometimes) speedily click connects and works fine enough for a camera preview.

I downloaded the app and while going through the setup I noticed they were lazy enough to leave both the "successful connection" slide and the "failed to connect" slide in the setup tutorial even if you do nothing to connect the drone through the app, Every review saying the streaming works also reviewed on google with the exact name and completely different review, All in all its fun to fly around and do stunts. Id assume the recording works as long as you have the micro sd card to record video on it....