the mini 2 it's coming soon we're going to talk about it in today's video
we're also going to compare it to the original mini so let's get right into it
okay so i'm brick aramella the drone pilot pro and today i'm going to talk about the mini 2 so dji
changed it now with the mavic mini 2 they got rid of the mavic part so they're just going to
call it mini 2. kind of like the ronin s that just came out the ronin s2 i should say that came out a
couple weeks ago they changed that as well so they just call it the rs2 they're kind of shortening
all the titles so when we get this new mini it's going to be called the mini 2. now before we go
into the specs i just want to point out how this mini 2 is different from the dji mavic mini so
there's a lot of similarities but there are some major differences so all the specs in blue we're
still not sure about but all the specs in black are confirmed so i just use those two colors to
distinguish the two confirmed and speculative specs now this is actually the original dji
mavic mini but it's basically the same size as the mini 2 so i'm going to use it for this video
and the reason dji is coming out with such a small drone that weighs
just under 250 grams anywhere from about 245 to 249 it says 249 but i have the feeling it's going
to be something like 246 or 247 because dji wants you to be able to put a filter on it and still be
under 250 grams why is that so important well two factors if you're under 250 grams at least
in the united states you don't have to register your drone with the faa and the other reason is
because remote id is imminent all the people in charge at the faa are talking about remote id
as we speak they're having a meeting about it and they're going to make a final decision so if that
goes through the way it's been written then that means that drones under 250 grams are probably
going to be more popular because if you use a drone under 250 grams you don't have to comply
with remote id if you're a hobbyist now if you want more information about that i made a video
right over there but we're going to continue on with this video so because these new regulations
are going to affect so many people i don't think dji wanted to come out with a really big drone
they wanted to keep it under 250 grams that way no matter what the faa said people would still
be able to fly this drone so those are all good reasons why the mini 2 is going to come out on
november 5th now you may say to yourself you don't have the mini 2 in your hands right now yes that's
true however there's been a bunch of people who have bought the mini 2 in best buy and i've also
gone into best buy and seen it unfortunately it was released a little too early and i guess they
didn't get the memo from dji or maybe dji did that on purpose but somehow some people were able to
buy a very few amount of people but it's out there it's online and of course once it's online it goes
everywhere so everyone kind of knows that's going to come out and the word is that's going to come
out on thursday november 5th now looking at these two controllers this is the mavic air 2 controller
and this is the mavic mini controller however with the new mini 2 they just made it almost
identical to the mavic air 2 controller so it looks exactly the same this big shape so
if you like this controller you're going to be happy because it's going to be like this
honestly i prefer this one but i'm probably in the minority so a lot of people do like this that's
why dji is making it like this and one reason people like it is because the screen is just
above them and then they can see their hands here but to me i don't look at my controller
when i fly but i guess a lot of people do and the only other difference i could see is on the mini
2 controller it looks exactly like this however instead of saying tripod over here it says cine
so cine is short for cinematic mode so dji loves going back and forth between tripod and cinematic
mode on some drones they have both cinematic and tripod mode so city mode is analogous for making
the drone go a lot smoother and a lot slower and that's a really helpful feature but other
than that the controller is basically just the same as the mavic air ii now one really nice
thing about the mini 2 is that it has accusing 2.0 and that was the thing i didn't really like about
the original mavic mini it couldn't go that far because it was just wi-fi and i couldn't really
fly it that far so as accusync 2.0 goes up to 10 kilometers or 6.2 miles in the united states
and then outside of the united states that goes all the way up to six kilometers or
3.7 miles so that's really good news and that's a huge improvement and a huge reason
to upgrade to this new mini now it's also worth noting that dji drones that have i could sync 2.0
are also able to use with a smart controller so if you wanted to use the smart controller you could
do that instead of using this however with the mavic air 2 that took a few months to implement so
i imagine when they release it you may not be able to use it with a smart controller right away you
may have to wait a couple months for dji to update that firmware that's just so they can still sell
the mavic air too it's sort of like a marketing ploy that i think dji uses just to make sure that
all their drones are selling and then later on they do a firmware update that sort of fixes that
so if you can't use it with a smart controller right away don't freak out you will be able to
you just might have to wait a few months all right so cosmetically and the design of the drone almost
looks exactly the same as the original mavic mini the only difference is there's a little led light
on the front and also the propellers have a little orange stripe on them i think that's just
for safety so that little led light in the front and the orange stripe on the propellers just for
safety and the other thing is if you look in the back the design is the same the batteries go in
and out almost exact same as the mini only instead of using the black batteries they're going to use
the gray batteries so the battery the color of the battery is going to match the drone if that
matters to you but to me it's no big deal and the batteries will have one minute more flight time uh
31 minutes instead of 30 minutes basically the same thing so you have probably up to about i'd
say 27 28 minutes of flight time max and that flight time depends on how you fly the drone
the wind and other conditions when you're flying so in the back of the new mini 2 it's not going
to use the micro usb instead it's going to be use usb c so they keep changing between micro usb usb
c it gets kind of annoying that they keep changing it but anyway if you like usbc that's what's going
to be in the back of your drone so the new bag is going to look like this which is the same as the
mavic air ii whereas the mavic mini used to look like this and i guess a lot of people didn't like
this because this was kind of like annoying to carry around i guess you could carry it
around sort of like a briefcase a little one but this one is nice because it has a shoulder strap
and yeah so the bag looks great i mean it's a really nice look inside you can put all your stuff
so it's nothing special nice and simple it also has this little zipper up top so you can unzip
down there and you can put stuff in there and then you could also unzip the bag right there and it
has that compartment right there as well so it's a very handy bag it's very simple and easy to use
and you can put it on your shoulder and it's great now it's worth noting that the mini 2 looks like
it also has these kind of flimsy propellers and one complaint a lot of people didn't like was
that these are kind of flimsy and when you put them in the bag they sometimes they might get like
bent a little bit and or or slightly damaged and that wasn't a good thing so the new mini 2 comes
with a propeller kind of guard that just goes over the drone when you store it in the bag so you just
put that guard it just like snaps right in and then you just put it in your bag and you're all
good now from everything i've seen online the mini 2 does not have obstacle avoiding sensors that was
kind of a bummer it only had it on the bottom so because it doesn't have obstacle avoiding sensors
i have the feeling it's not going to have active track which a lot of people like
all right so as i go through these specs i thought it would be a good idea just to compare
the original mavic mini with the new mini 2. so we have the mavic mini as a point of reference
to see whether it's worth the upgrade or not so it appears that the drone is going to be 50 more but
the combo i'm still not sure if it's the same price as it used to be 4.99 or is it going to
be 5.99 now i've heard people who have bought it at best buy so far have paid 4.99 but the rumor
online a lot of people are saying that it's 5.99 so i think dji might be testing the waters right
now and those prices could fluctuate anywhere between 499 to 599 for the combo and even for 5.99
i still think that's a pretty good deal and i'm going to tell you why as we go through these specs
so the combo will come with a battery charging hub and three batteries so that'll give you up to
an hour and a half flight time realistically in the real world that's probably about an hour and
15 hours and 20 minutes of flight time which is really really good and the only downside of that
combo is that it doesn't come with the propeller guards like it did with the original mavic mini
so i was a little disappointed that they didn't include the propeller guards and that makes me
think that because they didn't include the propeller guards that they might lower the
price down to 4.99 which is what i'm hoping for now unfortunately the sensor is still one slash
2.3 inches i wish it was a little larger but it's only one slash 2.3 inches 12 megapixels
and although i would like to see a bigger sensor it does make sense because it's so small
it is kind of a bummer though but it does shoot 4k now it shoots 4k up to 30 frames per second the
original mini right here only shot 2.7 k up to 30 frames per second and from what i've read online
that's what ceo frank wang was really disappointed about was that he wasn't happy with the image
quality of the original mini so that was one of the main reasons why he came out with the mini 2
which looks almost exactly like this so the image quality is going to be better now a big factor why
i think we'll see the bit rate go from 40 megabits per second all the way to 100 megabits per second
is because he did want that image quality to be better and going from 2.7 k all the way up to 4k
4k at 60 megabits per second we could see that but i i think realistically we'll see a hundred
megabits per second that makes sense and then slow motion it shoots 1080 up to 60 frames per second
nothing crazy about that if you want really good slow motion then you're going to want to get
the mavic air 2. the lens and shutter speed is also the same so we're going to see a 24
millimeter lens which is a nice wide angle lens good field of view and then you also have an f
2.8 glass on the front okay that's the aperture now it's a fixed aperture so you can't change that
it's not a huge deal for me but that means we're gonna have to need an nd filter so i'm hoping that
the combo will come with nd filters and we'll have to see about that shutter speed is the same still
from four seconds all the way to one eight thousandth of a second so nothing new there
it's gonna be a three axis gimbal which is normal for all good drones nowadays and it's gonna have
12 megapixels but i think we're gonna see 12 megapixels jpeg and raw so adding the raw feature
to our photos is also going to enhance our image quality and again like i said before the ceo
wasn't happy with the image quality so i think all these little improvements 4k and now the ability
to shoot raw with our photos on the video and the photo side both improving the quality is something
that we're going to see with the mini 2. and it also has panorama mode so panorama mode it'll
probably take a couple photos stitch them together so you can get a nice panorama without having to
do that in post-production which is really nice and the image size is the same as the original
mavic mini all right the max flight time only one minute difference so we get one more minute
of flight time which is nice not a huge deal there but the next one is huge like i mentioned before
akka sync 2.0 having that range going all the way up to six miles i mean no one really flies
six miles but it's gonna go a lot farther you're gonna have better signal strength whether you're
flying in the countryside or the city no matter where you fly you're gonna be a lot happier
and you're not gonna have to worry about losing connection like you did with the mavic mini now
the max speed should be around 29 30 miles an hour could be a little faster that's not a huge deal to
me because i usually don't fly that fast anyway i like to get more smooth cinematic shots and
even 29 miles per hour that's plenty fast for all the drone shots that you're going to want to get
however the next category is another huge reason why you should upgrade and the mavic mini when it
was windy out on a windy day it just really wasn't that great okay the footage was kind of shaky
and the drone would be all over the place and i get so worried especially flying over water
or in areas where i couldn't really retrieve the drone if it fell or something happened and
i've heard a lot of people online having flyaways and things like that due to the wind and the fact
that the original mavic mini was so small so the mini 2 will be able to resist wind just like the
mavic air ii so it's going to perform a lot better in wind it's going to be able to handle winds 19
to 24 miles per hour they call that a level five for wind resistance so i'm super pumped about that
the ocusync and the wind resistance having that distance and not worrying about the wind blowing
away your drone those are two huge reasons why you should upgrade no obstacle avoidance just
the obstacle avoiding sensors it's only on the bottom the visual positioning system
that allows it to take off and land properly now for intelligent flight modes it does have
boomerang also has the one tap which is cool and it should have the quick shot modes now which
quick shot modes is it gonna add active track is it gonna add hyperlapse or asteroid mode
we have to see all right internal storage i don't think there's gonna be any but in the back of the
mavic mini like the mavic mini the mini 2 you can just put your micro usb card right in there
and that should be where you store all your memory that shouldn't be a surprise for anyone and the
mini 2 like the original dji mavic mini we'll use the dji fly app all right that's it for specs now
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