After lately rolling out the brand new Phantom 4 Professional and the huge 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 in your older Phantom drones, however Mavic Professional, Phantom 4 Professional and Encourage 2 homeowners, that is the app for you.
Additionally supported within the new app is the Phantom 4, however we have now 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 art work is a nice 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 recent 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 digital camera controls.
As any skilled drone pilot will inform you, if a craft provides a FPV (first individual view,) the quicker that picture is transmitted from the air to the display screen in your hand, the much less doubtless you’re to crash. DJI selling close to real-time is, imagine it or not, solely a small velocity enhance in video transmission, not 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 have now 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 modifying 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 essential promotion, digital camera settings changes. Granted, you may modify digital camera settings previous to this, the trick right here is expanded capacity to regulate stated digital camera settings whereas in mid-flight. With the vast majority of the drones at present supported by DJI Go 4 being extra like cameras with wings, the extra digital camera management the higher, I’d say.
Accessible for Android gadgets operating not 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 detest the unique DJI Go app, on the lookout for an enchancment? We hope that is it.
