After lately rolling out the brand new Phantom 4 Professional and the huge Encourage 2, DJI has launched a brand new cell app as properly, that is DJI Go 4. This isn’t an replace to the present DJI Go app, you’ll nonetheless want that on 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’ve not heard from DJI themselves but for an reason why there’s now two variations of their cell app floating round.
Diving in, DJI Go 4 is a close to reproduction of the present DJI Go app for Android and iOS. Up to date art work 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 probably 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 affords a FPV (first particular person view,) the quicker that picture is transmitted from the air to the display in your hand, the much less probably you might be to crash. DJI selling close to real-time is, consider it or not, solely a small pace enhance 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 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 fundamental promotion, digital camera settings changes. Granted, you possibly can regulate digital camera settings previous to this, the trick right here is expanded capacity to manage stated digital camera settings whereas in mid-flight. With nearly all of the drones at the moment supported by DJI Go 4 being extra like cameras with wings, the extra digital camera management the higher, I’d say.
Obtainable for Android units working no less than Android 4.4. DJI Go is a free app within the Google Play Retailer, accessible now for obtain.
Are you one of many many that detest the unique DJI Go app, in search of an enchancment? We hope that is it.
