DJI’s Mavic Pro Is Tiny, Foldable, and Super Smart

DJI has have the American pilotless aircraft market for a while , and for a dang good intellect . DJI take fantastic drones with some of the most in advance features on the market . With a slight praxis anyone can take flight one and pull off the kind of photos and TV you used to need a picture crew and helicopter to get . A week ago GoPro , the action camera king , announcedits own droneandstole a bit of DJI ’s thunder .

The DJI Mavic Pro is DJI taking its thunder back .

Like the previously herald GoPro Karma , the Mavic Pro is a full - boast airy photography radio-controlled aircraft that can be folded up . But where the Karma fit in a backpack , the Mavic Pro is tiny enough to equip in a back pocket , and weighs just 1.65 pound .

Just because the Mavic Pro is tiny , does n’t mean it ’s icky , like other small drone . The Mavic Pro has 27 proceedings of battery life , a five - tv camera vision system , GPS , a 4 K , 12 - megapixel camera on a 3 - axis gimbal . On computer hardware alone , it vie with most of the best consumer drones out there .

The Mavic Pro also work up on the powerful brains that made products like DJI ’s most late Phantom 4 a hitting . Using that five - tv camera vision system , it can spot obstacles and avoid them . ( The obstacle dodging only works at up to 22 mph . ) Mavic Pro is equal to of all kinds of smart self-reliant trajectory tricks including several unlike follow modes . Whereas before the Phantom 4 could only follow you from behind , the Mavic Pro can conduct you in front , take after you at a visibility , and and even do a bully trick where it fly in circles around you while you move .

Pre - sales for the DJI Mavic Pro start today and it ships October 15 .

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