DJI smart controller is it worth it I'm gonna answer that question in the video
coming up along with some alternatives to this new DJI controller all right
I've seen a lot of reviews a lot of people talking online other YouTube
videos about this controller and to be honest I think a lot of them hype up
this controller for whatever reason I think other people have certain agendas
on this channel I try to give you an honest look and just give you my opinion
based on experience and based on what I observe not based on what other people
say or any other type of hidden agenda and thing like that so that's why I can
say I'm not as excited about this DJI product as I was for the Mavic - yes
nevertheless it does have some merits it may be the right controller for you so
let me go over it and then I'm gonna give you my opinion as I go along now
let me say this I don't actually Odin the controller yet so don't kill me in
the comments but I have flown almost every DJI drone I have the zoom and the
pro so I'm gonna give you my opinion based on all my experience of flying DJI
drones and I'm also going to talk about alternative options like an iPad and
some other things like this for either this drone or other drones out there
from what I can tell the screen looks great 1080p it's also gonna be twice as
bright as your mobile device or any smart device that you have so when
you're using in bright sunlight anywhere outdoors it's gonna be very handy now
alternatively you could just use your normal controller and right here I'm
using this cord I can use a lot shorter cord and yes this screen is 5.5 inches
but a lot of people fly with like a note eighth note 9 or the new iPhone that's
really really big so the screen size and resolution isn't that huge of a deal 5.5
inches it's still a lot smaller than my iPad nine point seven inches yes with
the iPad I do have this little cord that I have to connect to my USB right here
and I just take out the little cord on the side and I fly that way with my iPad
but the iPad it's so easy to fly with and actually
having this screen real estate with this big iPad is to me a lot better option
some people are gonna say oh yeah the iPad isn't as bright so if you fly in
the Sun it's not gonna be as good well I can just attach a hood to it like this
you know I can put this hood on it or if I were flying with my controller like
this I could just add a nice little shade over here so I can put that over
my controller and the Sun wouldn't really be a factor so the fact that you
have that huge screen real estate you could use a big phone I only have the
iPhone 7 but if you had one of those bigger phones that would make up for the
size and then in terms of the brightness you can turn it up or you could just put
a little shade over and you can save yourself a lot of money now you may be
asking yourself what do I connect with basically I take off the cable on the
side and I just connect with a little cord on one end is a USB and the other
end is just my normal lightning bolt connector so you could use whatever
connector you have for your phone and then you could just plug it in to your
controller a lot of people say yes it has a key sync 2.0 this new controller
well the maverick 2 is I can sync 2.0 with this controller and if you connect
it to the usb right here and take out the cord on the side and then turn off
your Bluetooth your gonna get really great transmissions so that solves all
that problem so so far I don't see a huge advantage of having this new smart
controller but let's move on the way that the new controller is also gonna be
a little heavier than this controller but it's not really gonna be that much
of a difference so the new DJI smart controller is gonna be compatible with
the Mavic 2 drone so the Mavic - zoom the Pro and Enterprise drones so that's
really nice you still have to bind the controller to the drones but that
shouldn't take very long and the advantage of having this new controller
is that you won't have any wires so someone in an emergency situation
especially those who are using the enterprise drone like firefighters and
other people have like jobs with emergencies this is a big advantage and
I will say having this controller is definitely worth it for those type of
jobs and those people so if you don't like dealing with cables then obviously
you want to get the new controller if don't mind it then it's not really that
huge of a deal the new controller has 16 gigs of internal storage as well as can
take cards up to 128 gigabytes but I will say whenever you have a card slot
for a controller I don't believe it's actually going to record the highest
quality onto that card I think you have to put the card in the actual drone then
you could take it out of the drone and put it into the controller to view it to
edit it to show a client so if you're working with a big client or you have a
commercial operation this controller is going to be helpful for this so you can
take out the microSD card and then view all your photos and images now how good
is loading those files onto your controller versus using an iPad I don't
know yet we're gonna have to see and you can use third-party apps as well such as
lychee drone deploy pics 4d so if you do any type of mapping or advanced
photography and video techniques and use other apps then this controller is going
to be helpful but once again like I said before you could do that also on an iPad
and save yourself some money one thing it says is that the mimo app is also
supported so that's the app for the Osmo pocket I don't know if you can use this
new smart controller to control the Osmo pocket that would be really cool what I
think is gonna happen is you're gonna be able to take out your micro SD card from
your Osmel pocket and then you're gonna be able to hook it up to your new smart
controller and then see all the videos and photos that you took and show a
client so using the Osmo pocket with this new smart controller that might be
a good combination so if you're one of those people this new controller might
be for you alright the battery life lasts two and a half hours and it takes
two hours to charge this isn't bad this isn't great it's nothing to write home
about you can always add a separate power
supply I use this little supply which I'll put in the link below it's called
anchor super-small it's about the size of a lipstick you can use this and you
connect it to your smart controller or if you had an osmolar pocket as well you
could just get this and you get the right connection to connect it right
here with a USB C and then you can walk around and you can film all day
or with a drone you can shoot much longer though honestly most people don't
use their drones for two and half hours so if you are a skier a person in cold
weather this new smart controller can go from negative four degrees Fahrenheit
all the way to 104 degrees Fahrenheit or negative 20 Celsius all the way to 40
degrees Celsius so extreme weather and each time to extreme condition if you
just wanted to bring it around and actually use it like your iPad so I know
I've been comparing a lot to an iPad but there are a lot of similarities although
I'm not sure whether my iPad can handle those extreme weather I think it can but
there are a lot of similarities between the two with that said those extreme
temperatures especially the cold weather is made for the enterprise drone so then
because they have self heating batteries so the normal drone I wouldn't fly in
like negative 4 degree weather whereas if I had the enterprise because it has a
self feeding batteries I wouldn't really worry about that and even the type of
person doesn't like cables you're also the type of person that likes things
happen very quick so this controller can start up in 30 seconds or less which is
gonna be faster than the normal controller but for me waiting an extra
minute isn't that big of a deal now the sticks on the new smart
controller are not compatible with the old Mavic 2 controller so if you have
the Mavic 2 controller unfortunately they're not going to work for your DJI
smart controller ok I've seen a lot of other people saying oh you can live
stream to social media to Facebook to YouTube and all these other platforms
well in the normal DJI go for app you already could do that so for me I think
it's still a great feature but it's nothing that we haven't already had so
it's not a new feature it's something that's still there and that's that so it
does have bluetooth and Wi-Fi so you can share and connect and emails and do all
that sort of thing with this new smart controller it also has a microphone and
a speaker so if you want to do a live stream or record stuff or play stuff
back for a client you can hear things and interact a lot more than the normal
controller although the normal controller still was able to pick up
audio but it didn't have a speaker so that's where the these two differentiate
because this smart controller is compatible
would the zoom the pro and the enterprise I think DJI might make
another Mavic to drone so I'm thinking something like the Mavic to platinum
could be wrong I don't know I don't want to start rumors but that's just a hunch
I have a thought I had after saying hey wait a minute
it was compatible with three of them why wouldn't they just make another one much
like they made the Mavic Pro and then they had the Platinum later on so maybe
they'll do it I don't know but this controller might be good if you have
future upgrades or decide to upgrade from this Mavic to to like an enterprise
or maybe a platinum drone in the future but that's all theoretical now so I just
thought I'd put that out there but we'll have to see now I know I've been kind of
critical of this new smart controller and I've basically said that you could
just get an iPad and that'll do the job just as well and you can save yourself a
lot of money one thing I will say it does have an HDMI out at 4k 60 frames
per second so that's pretty cool because then I could hook up my footage I shot
with my Osmo pocket at 4k 60 frames per second take out this microSD put it in
my new smart controller and then hook it up to a monitor show a client that so I
can use my controller not just for my drone but then I could use it with my
Osmel pocket to show a client what I've been shooting now the house mole pocket
looks kind of small for a professional shoot our commercial shoot but it really
does produce outstanding outstanding footage so I think a lot of people are
gonna change their perspective and their view of size and what cameras and things
do I think DJI has done a great job of changing that perspective in the Hosmer
pocket is a huge step in that direction so if you are a professional drone pilot
you could hook up your smart controller to a separate monitor you can show a
client while you're shooting they can see everything you're shooting live this
is the same as the Crystal sky too so if you already have a crystal sky you
probably don't need this controller because you're already able to do this
because it has the HDMI out port with that all said if you decide to get an
iPad instead of this new controller you can hook up your iPad to your phantom
controller you just have to connect to the back where it has a
USB you can fly like that now you might say the Phantom controller doesn't have
that HDMI out port which the new controller has for the Mavic - well you
can actually buy a DJI controller module right here that will fit it's about a
hundred dollars or so and it fits on here and it does have an HDMI port on it
so you can then make your phantom do the same thing I don't know whether that
would produce 4k at 60 frames per second not exactly sure of that but this could
be an alternative option for you if you already had an iPad and you had both a
phantom and a Mavic drone and didn't want to buy this new controller alright
guys I hope that was helpful if you are pumped up and you want to get that new
GGI smart controller go for it obviously I gave you a lot of
alternatives to doing so because it is a lot of money to spend for one controller
if you haven't bought the Mavic 2 yet and are thinking about getting this
controller DJI is gonna have this controller with the Mavic 2 as a bundle
together and they're also gonna have the normal controllers so you can buy the
drone with either the old controller or the new controller and in that case it
might be worth it just to spend extra money and get the new controller with
all that said if you already have the Mavic to buying this new controller to
me it all depends what you're gonna do if you have an iPad I gave you
alternative options to use with that if you don't then you got to think do I
need this controller am I going to use a separate monitor or do I mind attaching
a cable and waiting a minute and thirty seconds instead of thirty seconds to
start my drone if these are things that are bothering you then get the new
controller if they're not to me you might be better off just buying a mount
to put your iPad or buying a shade or a hood to cover it up either your phone or
your smart device and saving yourself all that money but if you want to go for
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