Is the Skyrover x1 where we're headed?

[Topo]

I've been seeing various review vids on YouTube about this mini 4 look alike. I'm told it's a covert DJI offshoot company in Malaysia, with a very odd name (SZ Knowact), created to compete with the inevitable ban of their products from the US. The x1 looks fairly competent, but no controller with a screen is available.

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[AeroJ]

See also this Q&A vid from the same channel...

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and can confirm not available in UK by the looks of it.

It's a shame about the no-controller-with-screen option, as that's the one deal-breaker for me personally, but I am fairly confident one of those will be along later from the same company.

 

[Johnmcl7]

No need to sell it in the UK when they can sell DJI products normally and I wonder if there's no integrated controller option because it would take more work to disguise it? I can't see it being that long before it's discovered and they're blocked like the rest of the DJI products.

 

[AeroJ]

I vaguely recall that the RCN type controller came before the integrated screen ones back when DJI were in their formative years - perhaps this will follow the same pattern?

 

[AeroJ]

Well it's not the same brand and god alone knows if it too will be banned when the hammer falls on Chinese drones more generally, but I was right above that one of these companies would soon get a drone out with an RC2 type controller.

Potensic Atom 2 seems to be winning in all the ways Skyrover was, and now features a very nicely designed controller with inbuilt screen. Great move by them to mount the sticks on the side of the screen. Very nice. But I don't know anything about that company. And with the FCC recently awarding themselves powers to ban things containing even Chinese parts deemed to be a security risk, I don't know whether investing in one of these is any more safe than buying a DJI.

The overall aim of all these sanctions and rules (tariffs aside) seems to be to remove hobbyists from the skies, so perhaps this too will fall foul of that agenda...

But here's a review of that for anyone that cares...

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