DJI simply added the 2 most requested options to its $199 Neo drone

However DJI is now fixing each, including vertical video and dramatically rising the Neo’s flight pace whereas monitoring. In line with DC Rainmaker, it’s now so quick it might probably sustain with cyclists, and surprisingly flies sooner in monitoring mode than it does with a controller.

Earlier than the firmware replace, the drone wasn’t in a position to sustain with him biking at even 13 miles per hour (21kph). However after the replace, he noticed an enormous enhance to roughly 20 miles per hour (32 kph). That’s sooner than you may manually fly the drone, even in Sport mode, so hopefully DJI will quickly allow us to entry that pace enhance for FPV flying as effectively.

The vertical mode is arguably extra thrilling due to the social video platforms the place your footage can now extra simply stay — however a pair caveats you must know. First, it’s restricted to the Neo’s pretty grainy 1080p mode, not 4K, although you may go as much as 60fps. To my eye, it appears to be like about nearly as good because the Neo’s 1080p horizontal filming mode.

Second, you’ll have to replace your DJI Fly app, not simply the drone — in any other case, the choice for 9:16 vertical video merely gained’t seem in lots of flight modes. And in the event you’re on Android, meaning updating the app from the app itself, and probably reassuring your Android cellphone that it’s okay to put in, as a result of DJI hasn’t put its app on the Google Play app retailer for a while now.