Leaks reveal a brand new DJI drone with a compact folding design

DJI’s present folding drones, together with the Mini 4 Professional and Mini 3, function collapsing propellers and arms that fold in the direction of the perimeters of every drone’s physique. The guarded propellers on the DJI Flip seem to as a substitute fold downwards within the leaked animation, leading to all 4 of them being neatly stacked to assist make the drone smaller and simpler to move when not being flown.

The addition of propeller guards won’t solely make the DJI Flip safer for novices to fly, however its bigger propellers and their ducted design might additionally make the brand new drone quieter, based on DroneXL. Different options noticed within the leaked picture and animation embrace a digicam on a three-axis gimbal, touchdown leg helps underneath the entrance propellers, assist for DJI’s O4 video transmission system, and an “superior LiDAR array matching the DJI Air 3S’s sensor capabilities,” says DroneXL.

The brand new leaks observe technical particulars and the primary take a look at the DJI Flip revealed in FCC filings final week by Jasper Ellens. The Flip will ship with a 3,110mAh battery — bigger than the DJI Neo’s 1,435mAh that permits the smaller drone to fly for as much as 18 minutes. That’s additionally bigger than the two,590mAh that ships with the DJI Mini 4 Professional and the DJI Mini 3’s 2,453mAh battery, which gave each of these drones flight instances of 34 to 38 minutes.

What’s nonetheless unknown are pricing particulars or when the DJI Flip will launch, though DroneXL suspects it could possibly be introduced as early as January 2025. Jasper Ellens additionally believes the Flip will probably be DJI’s substitute for the Mini 5 or Mini 5 Professional that was anticipated to debut someday in late 2024 or early 2025.