What's up! Brett Garamella here and I'm reviewing the Mavic mini also because
it's the holiday season I'm giving away a Mavic mini so you're gonna want to
stick around to the end of this video so you can find out how to win so let's get
right into it what's going on guys super pumped up today got the Mavic mini it's
gonna be my first time I've flown it just took it outside the box and 249
grams this thing weighs nothing and not only do I have one Mavic mini but I'm
gonna be flying this with what's up Ed Ricker what's up Brett it's been too
long welcome to Raleigh man we're about to fly them is that right I hope yeah
I'm super pumped up to minis in the air so you get two perspectives we're just
gonna talk about it IDI took his out of the box yesterday I
think you had one flight with it yesterday yeah one battery and these
batteries last 30 minutes so it's like a decent flight to be honest but now we
got two and we have four batteries to work with we should get a lot more
flight time Long's doesn't rain all right yeah we better get to it let's go
let's go
all righty 249 grams ultralight alright guys now I haven't really done a true
unboxing I did take there were stickers on here I did take them off but the
first thing I noticed the controller looks bigger than the drone seems pretty
crazy right and just taking it out it's just you know my first impression is I
can't believe how light it is not not just the size and you know you can see
the size on on-camera here but I can just tell you this feels like nothing
it's like a little baby bird this is the difference between just getting the
drone itself and getting the fly more combo over here so fly more combo
includes the bag and the battery hub with the two extra batteries and a
couple other things like prop guards and stuff but if you were just by thematic
mini by itself like this this is what they would come with just the box and
the rule control first off I think we talked about this before is just how
small it is it says 249 grams but it's actually 248 grams and then you put in
the micro SD card in the back and that's the 249th gram because your micro SD
card believe it or not has one gram so that just puts it just under the FAA
requirement and one thing we talked about is even though it's 249 gram so
you don't have to register it with the FAA in the United States and some other
countries you still have to obey the drone laws okay you can't just do
whatever you want fly over 400 feet and in a lot of places
so one thing I'm gonna have to do is take my phone case off so that my phone
can actually fit in here I'm using the Google pixels for excel shoutouts team
pixel what are you using actually have to I'm using my iPad I also brought my
Google pixel 3a right here so team pixel but personally I like to fly with a
tablet because you get more screen real estate but I understand a lot of people
like to fly with their phone this is nice I like the simple gimbal cover just
comes right off and on you got to take this part off first and you just got to
be cognizant of these don't go like jamming it in there okay just be ever so
careful when you put this on and off that way you Jam it on this
turned or like torqued in some way and you might damage the gimbal if you Jam
that cover on right yep and for for all you beginners out there people were just
starting with drones or DGI you don't want to fly with this on okay so before
you turn on the drone take this off and then when you're traveling always keep
this on because that will help the longevity of your gimbal so always
always keep that on when you're not when the drone is not on yeah so every
maverick I've flown you can use I use this with my tablet it has basically
this is for my iPad this is on one end this is for my iPad the other one is my
USB but there's no place to put in my USB normally the USB slot is right there
but surprise DGI fooled us switched it up nice DGI - now I got to use this
other one that came with it and hopefully this one will be alright
so it was a little tricky to download the DJI fly app on my iPad so I'm gonna
show you how to do that so first you have to go to the App Store and just
type in DJI fly and if your iPad is like mine you notice you don't see it okay it
doesn't pop up but in the left hand corner upper left-hand corner there's it
says filters you want to press on that and then you want to press on supports
and it currently says iPad only you want to change that to iPhone only and as
soon as you do that DJ iFly app will be the first one and then you just click on
that to download it and you're all set now you have the app now even though the
DJI fly app is out and it obviously works with the Mavic mini it appears to
be in a beta version okay it doesn't seem to really be refined like the GG I
go for app that US DJI drone users have been accustomed to now one thing to note
the DJI fly app does work with the spark in the air
but it's a little glitchy so I wouldn't recommend doing that yet I would stick
with the DJI go for app with those two drones however eventually I believe it
will work with all DJI drones and a DJI go for app will eventually be phased out
why is that button so big and red Wow for the iPad version of this app or at
least the iOS version that's blown up - iPad size yeah that's kind of a
ridiculous a preschool phone style size button there alright guys so I'm going
to show you how to switch between video in photo you can see over here the
button is really big and we just press on that 2.7 K we have our options we can
switch it to photo just by clicking on photo now the photo button is white okay
so that's how you switch from video to photo you want to switch it back just
click on that right above the circle and you can switch it back to video and of
course if you want to switch it to your quick shots or your intelligent flight
modes you go down here to quick shots but you have to be in the air to do that
24 only 24 frames per second that's a question I had so there's no 24 frames a
second right now and I thought is this like a Chinese version of the app or
like a a pal version of the app currently in video as you can see we
only have 25 frames per second or 30 frames per second as our options no 24
frames per second and if we go to 1080 we still only have 25 frames per second
30 frames per second 50 frames per second and 60 frames per second it sort
of has a very over simplified it doesn't look very I would say the word might be
polished it might it might look like almost like a beta version now I'm gonna
compare it to my Android Google pixel 3 a so you can see them side by side on
the Left we have the iPad on the right we have the Google pixel 3 a and you can
see them side by side how they look for whatever reason the Google pixel looks a
little more sophisticated looks a little more finished the iPad looks more like a
beta version
so it's not that loud either you know it's pretty quiet
the other cool thing and it's interesting to me is this is not beeping
normally with thematic the obstacle avoidance sensors will be beeping at you
if you're that close not having that beeping sound go off is kind of nice
right my first impression flying it as I said
earlier was that it felt super smooth like everything just felt cinematic this
is the smoothest DJI drone I've ever flown with that said it doesn't have the
power that the other maddox have any of the maddox including the air I feel like
it would take off but it didn't have kind of a thrust in sport mode did you
notice that as well so I was getting battery warnings when I was only at 57
percent battery he's saying that I couldn't actually get up to full sport
mode because of low voltage well sorry low voltage emits only 57 percent
battery left in the charge status yeah so I thought that was kind of
interesting I still got up to 24 25 miles an hour
what's the the actual max speed of this I think it's 29 miles per hour yeah yeah
and I think 29 25 to 29 miles per hour is still plenty fast for most shots
you're gonna get when you're doing videos you don't really need 40 miles
per hour plus I mean it is nice if you're doing like a car chase or
something like that but that's a rare sort of scene and nice thing about this
I really like if you're a filmmaker or professional photographer filmmaker and
I like this because you can maneuver it in tight spaces so I was going over
there between those trees and just bringing it back doing some revealing
shots and stuff like that whereas if I did it with my maverick - I'm a little
more worried because it's just bigger and if I crash it's also a more
expensive drone so the fact that it's such a small drone and it doesn't cost
nearly as much as my Mavic - worst of my other DJI drones I'm not quite as
worried and I have more control but with that said I felt like this drone because
it doesn't have obstacle avoiding sensors you always have to keep an eye
out for it right like keep it within sight one thing I was a little bummed
out about was that they didn't have the c1 and c2 controllers they other Mavic
drones they have controller shortcuts on the bottom and basically I can press
this with my finger and I make the camera go down and up really
quick and I use that or grabbing that yeah they're programming that and I
program that all the time on my Mavic drone my Matic - that way I if I'm near
someplace I don't rely on the sensors I can just
look down to see if there's a tree or something underneath me with this you
have to physically move the gimbal you have to move this over and it goes down
slowly or you can adjust the speed but it's still slowly it's kind of a pain
rather than just having it go with one press of the button so to me it takes a
little longer and the fact you don't have those obstacle avoidance in those
hairy situations it's gonna eat up a little more battery just to make sure
that you don't hit something it's really hard to tell especially you know when
the lights changing today I I had a tough time seeing it with the clouds and
so forth right yeah when we have both drones up
there - it's difficult to see which one was in front of the other they're just
little black dots now luckily because this is a light-colored drone yeah it
still shows up pretty dark when you're flying in the sky yeah the shadow that
it casts darkens and and so you'd actually see the drone in the sky I was
worried about that I'll be like no you see the white drone up there I think my
phantom sometimes the Phantom's really far away and it's white and everything
well this one actually was able to still be dark enough to see at least in cloudy
conditions the other thing I was gonna say is the build quality it seems cheap
like it actually moves and kind of wobbles a little bit everything bends
and it bends a little bit but in the air it's super smooth and solid and like I
was saying it seems to be the smoothest DJI drone so I'm fine with that like
like to me the proof is in the pudding it doesn't really matter if this bends a
little bit or might seem a little cheap in the air the quality is really good so
with the the lightweight I mean if this is 200 grams I'm not gonna do it but I
could with the gimbal cover I could probably throw it over there and it'd be
fine you know yeah the lighter a drone is the less it's
gonna break when it when it falls unless the components are really really brittle
or something but the fact that this bends I think it's gonna survive the
other thing I want to talk about the quick shot mode so it doesn't have all
the intelligent flight modes like the other Mavic drones but it does have
drone II rocket circle and peel X as those for quick shot modes which
basically you know you tap yourself and press go and it does it
I thought they all worked well droney it didn't go quite out as far as I'd like
it to I don't think it went quite as far as the other Maddox and went maybe like
a hundred feet as opposed to like 150 or 200 feet like the other Maddox it's not
a huge deal though it still it still worked perfectly fine the other thing
with with the helix I noticed you could adjust the different measurements how
far out you wanted that circle to go so I thought that was really nice and I
didn't mind I did the very least amount of space and I still freaked me out so
yeah I was looking behind me to check and yeah I want to do it again I'd have
a confidence - wasn't sure how far away that very narrow radius helix would go
out over all the the tracking of you as you move you can do the circle and keep
walking so it kind of is like kind of like an active track but it was good it
wasn't I would say as good I don't think it was quite as good as the Matic - yeah
well cos active trade requires some amount of obstacles yeah when this
doesn't have options it basically just says okay let's just get rid of it all
intelligent flight modes that would require obstacle avoidance
I guess active tracking you can see it like I said before you can see it on
camera how small it is but you won't believe how light it is and the fact
that it's smaller than the controller see I'm hiding it right now behind the
controller so it's kind of ridiculous yeah that's about it guys if you haven't
done so please subscribe to Ed's channel go check out his channel as well he
makes regular drone videos alright guys hope you enjoyed that video now we're
gonna talk about how you can win a brand-new Maddock mini in the Box
unopened so in order to win this brand-new Mavic
mini you have to follow a couple simple steps step one you have to subscribe to
my youtube channel and then step two you have to add a comment below
now in that comment specifically I want you to put a hashtag nav aqui
at the beginning of the comment then after you put the hashtag Mavic mini
you're gonna have to tell me what you're going to use the Mavic mini for and
include one question that you have about the Mavic mini or about DJI drones or
about the software just about DJI drones in general that you'd like to learn then
I'm going to read all the comments I'm gonna pick one
and that one winner could be from the United States or International I'm gonna
find a way to ship it to you I'm gonna announce that winner on December 9th on
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next video!