what's happening everyone my name is Alex and welcome back in today's video we are checking
out the budget friendly foldable drone from potency the one that we have here today it's
called the atom SC so this is drone that weighs under 250 grams if I remember right this way it's
244 grams with the battery and the SD card so in many places you're gonna be able to fly this
without registering but definitely check out the local regulations and whatever you plan on flying
a drone at all times so this can also record in 4k and we also have video stabilization available and
I feel that's pretty important for a drone now on one charge you can get up to 30 minutes of flying
time so if you do buy the fly more combo you do get two of these batteries so that will give you
just over an hour of flying time of course the flying time will depend a lot on the conditions
whenever you're flying so if it's super cold you may get less if you're flying fast you may get
less if it's super windy out you may get less and so on so it will depend on the location and the
current conditions whenever you're flying and very important the range on this drone is up to four
kilometers and once again that will depend a lot on the location and where you're flying and yes
this does look very similar with something like this but it is half the price of something like
um this so let's start a bit of an unboxing just so we can show you what comes in the box
with it all right first things first you're gonna find some booklets here a user manual
and if this is your first drone this could come in handy for me because I flown a lot
of drones I didn't actually have to check out on the user manual this is very easy to fly
you're also going to find these carrying case I'm gonna say so the Drone can fit in here the
controller can fit in here the extra battery can fit in here cables and everything else fits in
here so very easy to carry inside that carry in case you're gonna find a bunch of cables so these
cables can basically connect any smartphone to the controller so basically the phone connects to the
controller and then the controller connects to the Drone so you see the image from the Drone right
on your smartphone and of course you're gonna be able to use any smartphone Android or iPhone there
are also some spare propellers that come in that um carrying case hopefully you'll never need to
use this and we also have some replacement of the screws so if you do crash the Drone you will have
some propellers to to replace basically and aside from that you're gonna find a USB a to a USBC
cable so you'd use this cable to charge up the batteries so the batteries have a USBC port on the
back here now you can also buy these some charging docks you can get this with no batteries or you
can get it One battery or two batteries if I remember right so you can charge all the batteries
that you have at the same time I personally have three batteries so that will give me about 90
minutes of on flying time the controller is mostly made out of plastic it is pretty light and you're
gonna be able to fit pretty much any phone in it so it kind of expands this way so you can fit any
phone maybe even a tablet if you have like a smaller tablet personally I've only tried it
with my iPhone I did notice that I had to remove the case from my iPhone to fit this and well we
have the USBC charging port here and that's also the port that you'd use to connect the phone to
the controller you can move and the joysticks can also be removed so you can kind of hide the
joysticks even though the controller does fit in that carrying case even with the joysticks
um left on so we have the power button here we have a return to home button here and a couple
of buttons on the front here so you can start them recording so you can take pictures and
you can also move the camera up and down taking a look at the Drone itself well this is mostly made
out of plastic and as we talked about earlier it is also very light it is very easy to fold and
unfold it takes about 20 seconds to unfold this in about 20 seconds to fold the back up maybe even
um faster than that and on the front here we have what looks to be like a camera gimbal but this is
not actually a gimbal so this of course will help with vibrations and stuff like that you can move
the camera up and down but this is not a gimbal as we've seen on other cameras and that's why having
video stabilization is pretty important now it really depends how you're flying when you're
flying and Zone because if the Drone is fighting wind then it's gonna stay like this of course the
image that you're gonna get from the Drone is not gonna be totally straight so it really depends
on the conditions that you're flying if you're just going straight like this the footage will
look good at the bottom of the Drone we have the power button to power this Sony basically press
this twice well once and then you hold the the button press the Forum a second or two and to
power this off you do the same you press it once and then the second times you kind of
um hold it down press till it Powers off and then we have some sensors here at the bottom
so this sensors the Drone will be able to fly indoors and it will help on wood Landing as
well I was actually quite surprised how well this drone does in doors where it doesn't have GPS so
it will hover in the same spot I actually flew it right here in the studio I have to say that
I did crash it um once but nothing happened to it so yes it does hover in the same spot even if you
are flying indoors without GPS and whenever you're on outside then of course the Drone is connected
to some satellites it will also hover in the same spot now of course it will have to fight the wind
a bit every day I was flying the Drone it was a bit windy but yes it does stay in the same spot
I was quite surprised because I did try other cheaper drones in the past that don't really
maintain their position Outdoors so very impressed how it hovers even with wind the potency Pro app
is also very easy to use you basically and connect the phone to the controller or the cable I told
you that we had three cables that come in the box then you power on the controller you power
on the Drone and that's it you can see exactly what the camera sees now because I didn't want
to go over regulations mostly on a video I only flew the Drone up to a kilometer away from myself
basically where I could see the Drone flying I don't want to go any further than that so I can't
really comment on the total range of offline I did see some videos online and um some people
were able to fly this over three kilometers away from their location so since this is using GPS as
well it will also come back to the point where it took off so it will return to the location
where it took off if it's low on power if it gets disconnected from the controller or anything like
that accessing the drones menu is also very simple you have three dots in the top right
corner of the app you press on that and then you can change whatever settings you need the maximum
altitude this drone will fly at this 120 meters so keep that in mind it's not going to go any higher
than that and you can also set a distance that the Drone can fly from yourself I usually set it to
one kilometer away from myself but again everyone flies in different places and so on overall using
the app is very simple I haven't had any times when the app closed or it got disconnected or the
controller got disconnected from the phone or the controller from the Drone or anything like that
but as I mentioned earlier I try not to fly very far and away from myself so I try to keep that
drone within one kilometer of myself you can also change different video resolutions so you have 4K
at 30 you have 2.7 K and you can also do 1080p at 60 or 1080p at 30. personally I only do 4K at 30
and of course this is some footage that I captured with this drone the other day it was a super sunny
day but it was a bit windy unfortunately here by the scene it is windy pretty much every day
you can also see the location of the drone on the map and there are some well let's call them
intelligent flight modes I'm gonna say so you can have the Drone following the controller and
the phone basically it's not actually gonna follow you and it just turned off by itself
so the Drone is not actually gonna follow on you it will follow the controller and it can also do
like a circle around you flying time will also depend on how you fly the Drone if it's super
windy out if it's cold out and so on there are three flying modes basically you have a video
mode so in the video mode of course the Drone will go a bit slower I use that every time I actually
filmed anything so anything that you've actually seen on your screen from this drone was used using
that video mode but there is also a regular mode and a sport mode in the sport mode the Drone does
go very fast and it almost feels like an fpv drone so of course if you want better footage from this
drone flight nice and slow use it in that video mode and try not to move it that much and you're
gonna be able to get some decent footage from it I was actually impressed by how well the video
stabilization on it works I did have other drones in the past that didn't actually have a Gimbal
and the footage from those was just unusable so I was actually surprised how good the footage I was
able to get from this fairly cheap drone because let's be real here this is a pretty cheap device
so in my experience a realistic flying time will be about 25 minutes on one charge because
you always want to have some battery and come back before the battery runs out now this also
has an intelligent return on home mode so it will kind of calculate how long it takes it to go back
to the point where it took off so if you're too far away to actually come back by itself when it
figures out that it's gonna run out of power if it doesn't so keep that in mind if you're flying
the Drone very very far away from yourself at some point it will actually come back because it will
know that if it doesn't come back then it's not gonna make it so chances that you're not gonna
lose this even if you are not that experienced um flying this I also forgot to mention that this
will take SD cards up to 256 gigs of storage but personally I've only used the 64 gig SD
card with it and it did work really well I do have a class 10 SD card so that's the one that
um you need to record on footage in 4k so overall for the price you can't really go wrong with this
um mostly if you're a beginner but we all know that you're gonna crash a drone when you're um
starting up so you definitely don't want to crash a very expensive drone don't go and buy yourself
um three thousand dollar drone because there is a very good chance you're gonna crash it so if you
do crash a cheaper one but you know it's not gonna beat that um painful so yeah this was a
super quick look at the potensic atom on SC thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next one