If you are looking for a drone, the DJI Phantom is the best option. But if you are familiar with the philosophy of Xiaomi, you should know this company has products for all cases of life and all of them are innovative. This statement is true even for the quadcopers. Almost a year back the manufacturer launched its first quadcopter dubbed as the Xiaomi Mi Drone. Everything on this device looked excellent. The pricing was affordable as well. So many people couldn’t complain on anything. The only feature they can accuse the company in was the 1080P shooting ability. This made many Mi-haters spread rumors as the Xiaomi UAV project would shut down soon. Fortunately, the company has revised its attitude towards this niche, and today it announced the improved version of its drone. Meet the Xiaomi Mi Drone 4K.
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In comparison to the 1080P version, the Xiaomi Mi Drone 4K has got over 400 software optimizations. Plus, the company has made up to 5 hardware improvements. So this drone now looks and acts the way better.
Now the Xiaomi Mi Drone 4K comes with two sets of independent heterogeneous IMU and compass sensor. Thy help the drone to provide better flight real-time monitoring by merging data from both sensors. In case of failure users can immediately make switches in order to improve flight safety and stability. As for security, the remote control uses PCB array antenna to reduce the control lost. It can make real-time location tracking, real-time calculation of the require power to return, hovering no-fly zone edge automatically and so on.
As for features, the Xiaomi Mi 4K uses 1.2mm ultra-thin lightweight body design process and 5100mAh capacity battery of 77.52Wh total power and 26 minutes of life time. It features a 12MP Sony back-illuminated camera supporting video recording at 3840 x 2160 and RAW format. Thanks to the new TDMA technology the Xiaomi Mi Drone 4K comes with an anti-jamming performance as well as improved transmission distance from 1km to 4km. This camera is packed with a 3-axis brushless self-stabilizing pan, built-in 3-axis gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis brushless motor driver. So it is capable of providing up to 2000 times better data acquisition and operation compensation.
This drone will be available for purchase starting March 3 at a price tag of 2999 yuan ($436).
