Xiaomi Mi Drone

Xiaomi Mi Drone overview

Xiaomi is one of China’s most popular consumer electronics brands with a lot of affortable products, like the Mi and Redmi smartphones, the Xiaomi Yi and Xiaomi Yi 4k action cameras and many other products like surveillance cameras, power banks etc.

The market of drones is expanding rapidly, so Xiaomi decided to enter in this world with a Quadcopter that has a lot of features but a low price compared to the competitors, and there are 2 versions depending on the camera resolution: 1080p and 4k version. The Xiaomi Mi Drone features a 104-degree wide angle lens camera capable of taking 1080p or 4K image-stablized video, and can stream 720p live video. Specifically, the camera uses a Sony 12.4 megapixel sensor, which captures video at 3,840 x 2,160 and 30 fps for the 4K version.

Xiaomi’s Mi Drone is a quadcopter with a three-axis gimbal, 4K or 1080p camera, and a remote control that uses your Mi smartphone as its viewfinder. The 4K version is sold for $750, while the 1080p model is priced at $675. Typically, 4K-camera drones from DJI and Yuneec retail for more than $900.

The peculiarity of this drone is its modularity: the camera +gimbal is detachable in seconds, as are all the rotors and the feet. This is a very good possibility for many reasons: you can change single pieces if you break them in a crash or if you want to upgrade them, and you can transport it easily occupying a very small space.

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It has a removeable 5,100mAh battery, that can reach 27 minutes of flight time on a single charge, similar to what competitor’s quadcopters offer.

The Mi Drone uses both GPS and GLONASS for positioning, and has a visual positioning system on the bottom that allows it to remain stable while flying at low altitudes in environments where it cannot get a satellite signal.

It has also many automatic flight modes, like takeoff, landing, return to home, waypoint navigation, and orbit. The Mi Drone can also create a geofence to limit its movement.

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Xiaomi Mi Drone reviews

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Xiaomi Mi Drone Features

HD or 4K CAM
Equipped with HD 1080P camera supports max to 1920 x 1080p / 60fps video recording with 104° wide-angle lens . The 4K version supports 4K recording (3840 x 2160) and raw format.

1080p version:

4k version:

3-axis Gimbal
3 brushless motor for a low weight of just 149g. It allows stable and accurate photography or recording. Camera attached to a 3-axis gimbal, stabilizes up to 2000 vibrations per second

Real-time Transmission
The built-in phone holder of the transmitter facilitates WiFi FPV function. Also the max to 3km superior long control distance ensures the good performance. Taking photos, videos, auto take off/landing, auto hover, point flying, flying router planning flying are controlled via this controller.

Battery
Mi Drone has a large 17.4V battery, 5100 mAh and it can fly continuously up to 27 minutes.

Range
Mi Drone uses PCB antenna which amplify the signal so that you can control the drone up to 2km with the 4K version, and 1km with the 1080p version.

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These are the flight features and modes:

GPS + Glonass + vision
You can trace Mi Drone’s position via GPS and once the Mi Drone fly out of the connected range then it will automatically fly back to the original position where it took off. GPS + GLONASS + vision-based positioning for max precision

Pointing Flight / Tap to Fly
Order your quadcopter to where you pointed in the map. Via the app just click on a point of the map and the drone will go right there.

Surrounded Flight
Pick what you wanna record or photography 360 degrees and let your Mi Drone surround it.

Route Planning
Plan and preset your flight line and get yourself a more smooth / high quality work of art.

Auto return
Intelligently detects low battery or radio signal loss and returns home automatically

Other Functions
One key automatic taking off / return / landing, real-time electric quantity monitoring and low-voltage return warning.

2.4GHz
High anti-interference performance and powerful signal.

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And here is an introduction video about Mi Drone:

Specifications