DJI has revealed its newest smartphone stabilizer, the DJI OM 4, renaming and replacing the old DJI Osmo Mobile and featuring a number of new features aiming to get you up and shooting faster. Pride of place is a new quick-snap magnetic phone attachment system, one of two ways to hook up a phone.
It looks like DJI is about to launch a follow up to the Osmo Mobile 3 gimbal. The DJI Osmo Mobile 4 has leaked, and while it keeps a lot of the features of its predecessor, it comes with a pretty major improvement too. With the Osmo Mobile 4, you'll be able to magnetically mount your phone to the gimbal, allowing you to attach your phone quickly and, it seems, with relative ease.
iFixit is perhaps best known for taking apart phones, tablets, and laptops but, from time to time, it also tries to take a peek inside that other marvel of consumer technology, commercial drones. The launch of DJI's latest flying robot and the free time that iFixit experts now have on their hands seems like the perfect opportunity (or excuse) to revisit that process. Suffice it to say, they really wish smartphones were this easy to repair.
DJI has a new drone ready to take flight, and the Matrice 300 RTK flying platform distinguishes itself with a hefty 55 minutes of flight time. Intended for commercial use, the new drone - and the Zenmuse H20 Series hybrid, multi-sensor camera launching alongside it - is capable of beaming a Full HD video from more than nine miles away.
Following numerous leaks, DJI officially took the wraps off its new Mavic Air 2 drone this week, revealing an updated model that brings a number of new features and capabilities. The new model arrives around two and a half years after the launch of the original Mavic Air drone, but some users remain hesitant to upgrade. DJI gives its customers a number of reasons to buy the newer model, including five key points.
Drones, especially consumer drones, have varied uses these days, ranging from short-lived fun to amateur content creation. The latter often involves taking high-quality photos and videos of scenic landscapes or breath-taking stunts from the skies above. That is exactly the use case that DJI has envisioned for its latest consumer drone and while the Mavic Air 2 may be able to deliver on those promises, it may be flying over a slightly different world from when it was still in development.
Depending on who you ask, drones can be fun or a nuisance, helpful or dangerous. The COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions imposed almost everywhere have seemingly turned the tables around, with many looking into industrial drones to safely handle deliveries, for example. On the other hand, the use of consumer drones for recreation isn't exactly doing it for many people considering they can't even go out. It's against that backdrop that the world's most popular drone maker will debut its next product in less than 24 hours but not before the Mavic Air 2 gets leaked again, this time in marketing images.
We often get a lot of unofficial information from anonymous insider sources, information that gets passed around by word of mouth or its Internet equivalent. Sometimes, however, such information takes on a more official tone when it comes not just from a reputable source but from a government agency as well. A very clear example is the DJI Mavic Air 2 which, thanks to Brazil's FCC counterpart, has now pretty much been revealed in its entirety.
Consumer electronics sales have been on the rise in the past weeks but many of them have one thing in common. They're all designed either for use at home or to enable working from home. Products that require people to be or go outside, in contrast, maybe seeing a drop in sales and interest, which almost makes launching a new drone model seem unwise. DJI, however, will still be pushing through with a new product later this month, possibly launching the Mavic Air 2 to a very different world.
It has been barely five months since DJI last launched a new drone, the Mavic Mini, but its main line hasn't seen any action in more than a year. There have been rumors of a Mavic 3 Pro that is obviously still a no-show by now. If this batch of photos are real, DJI doesn't seem ready to go there just yet and will, instead, while drone fans' time away with yet another iteration of its successful but aging Mavic 2 series.
DJI may be best known for drones, but one of the fruits of its incubator program may end up bringing LIDAR down to a more affordable price point. Livox broke cover back in 2016, part of DJI's Open Innovation Program, and focused on making laser scanning both cheaper to acquire and more practical and effective than current systems.
DJI is best known for its drones, but the company may also be popular for another reason in the future: remote-controlled camera cars. Similar to drones, these land-based vehicles would enable operators to remotely control a small car equipped with a stabilized camera, making it possible to get action shots from the ground and to keep tabs on one's property without the regulations and restrictions of flying in the sky.