After lately rolling out the brand new Phantom 4 Professional and the large Encourage 2, DJI has launched a brand new cellular app as properly, that is DJI Go 4. This isn’t an replace to the present DJI Go app, you’ll nonetheless want that to your older Phantom drones, however Mavic Professional, Phantom 4 Professional and Encourage 2 house owners, that is the app for you.
Additionally supported within the new app is the Phantom 4, however we’ve got not heard from DJI themselves but for an reason why there may be now two variations of their cellular app floating round.
Diving in, DJI Go 4 is a close to duplicate of the present DJI Go app for Android and iOS. Up to date paintings is a pleasing begin, however the options, largely, stay the identical at first look. Past the homepage and primary settings is the place the magic occurs, with a stream of latest and improved options to get essentially the most out of your drone.
The important thing options that DJI highlights as updates to the brand new DJI Go 4 app are “close to real-time picture transmission” and a few improved digicam controls.
As any skilled drone pilot will inform you, if a craft provides a FPV (first particular person view,) the sooner that picture is transmitted from the air to the display screen in your hand, the much less doubtless you might be to crash. DJI selling close to real-time is, consider it or not, solely a small pace improve in video transmission, no less than so far as the Mavic Professional and newer Phantom 4 Professional and Encourage 2 are involved. To not discredit the achievement, however we’ve got been having fun with close to real-time FPV already.
Keep tuned, it’s evening now with this information breaking, we’ll fly within the sunshine tomorrow and replace if we discover any main variations in video streaming.
Enhancements to video playback and enhancing options are a pleasant contact, DJI makes it simple to create movies out of your aerial footage, together with music and built-in templates, each of that are up to date in DJI Go 4 as properly.
Again to DJI’s predominant promotion, digicam settings changes. Granted, you may alter digicam settings previous to this, the trick right here is expanded capability to manage stated digicam settings whereas in mid-flight. With the vast majority of the drones presently supported by DJI Go 4 being extra like cameras with wings, the extra digicam management the higher, I’d say.
Accessible for Android gadgets working no less than Android 4.4. DJI Go is a free app within the Google Play Retailer, out there now for obtain.
Are you one of many many that hate the unique DJI Go app, searching for an enchancment? We hope that is it.