Mavic Air spotted

51 Drones · Jan 22, 2018

lannes said:
It's Canon vs Nikon all over again, one day Autel will catch up and surpass DJI, just like Nikon did in the sensor race

However, Nikon is still quite far behind Canon/Panasonic/Sony when it comes to video.

lannes · Jan 22, 2018

What I really want is a bigger integrated battery for the MP and MPP , not just the add-ons we have access to now

35-40 minutes of flight time would be perfect

Zandian · Jan 22, 2018

Alrightz, here are my predictions:

They will announce two new drones. One is the Mavic Air, which is a foldable Spark upgrade with foldable arms and two access gimbal, upgraded sensors and run time upgrade led from 16 to 21 minutes.

The second will be some sort of Mavic Pro 2 with upgraded camera-likely 60p at the least. Maybe a bit smaller but likely not much. Probably back to the old prop style because the low noise ones likely turned out to have low durability-at least mine sure did. Those winglets deform and break off easy. And there will be some cool reason they have those vent looking things on the top-back. Maybe to clear room on the bottom for some reason?

I just don’t believe the new pics floating around are of only one device. The white one looks less aero dynamic with a two access gimbal. The grey one looks much sleeker and bigger.

Those are my guesses.

Z

Gray_seagull · Jan 22, 2018

In about 13 hours from now, dji scenario might be like this:

The announcement of DJI GO 5 App then the introduction of Mavic Air as a new generation of dji drones then bam ... We do have one more thing ... "The Mavic Pro II"

Apple influence

Sources: please don't ask

sarasota · Jan 22, 2018

32MP snout very interesting for me Thumbswayup

JoKhool · Jan 23, 2018

If they announce a mavic 2 today, my wallet might just faint wide open lol. I wish I could have called out of work to stay home and watch the live event lol. Might just have to pull over on the side of the road to watch.

Anthony Viscomi · Jan 23, 2018

JoKhool said:
my wallet might just faint wide open lol.

My credit card is right next to my keyboard

Zandian · Jan 23, 2018

It’s just hard for me to believe they wouldn’t announce an upgraded version of the Mavic Pro. The platinum release was just meh, they are significantly discounting the Mavic Pro, and even selling it at Costco. Costco is often where companies go to dump their overstock. The Mavic Pro was a game changer for them and it’s been a year and a half now since hey did anything significant with it. And it can’t be this Mavic Air thing because there I no way they will go backwards in flight time-and I really don’t think from looking at that picture that that could possibly be a three axis gimbal.

Z

Anthony Viscomi · Jan 23, 2018

Zandian said:
It’s just hard for me to believe they wouldn’t announce an upgraded version of the Mavic Pro. The platinum release was just meh, they are significantly discounting the Mavic Pro, and even selling it at Costco. Costco is often where companies go to dump their overstock. The Mavic Pro was a game changer for them and it’s been a year and a half now since hey did anything significant with it. And it can’t be this Mavic Air thing because there I no way they will go backwards in flight time-and I really don’t think from looking at that picture that that could possibly be a three axis gimbal.

Z

I think that an updated MP (i.e. MP2) would be more of a holiday season annoucement

Lopez0015 · Jan 23, 2018

Anthony Viscomi said:
I think that an updated MP (i.e. MP2) would be more of a holiday season annoucement

Maybe , I think this is MP2 , until is same controller. But we hopping not

Zandian · Jan 23, 2018

Anthony Viscomi said:
I think that an updated MP (i.e. MP2) would be more of a holiday season annoucement

I agree the timing doesn’t feel right. I guess we will find out soon enough...

JoKhool · Jan 23, 2018

Anthony Viscomi said:
I think that an updated MP (i.e. MP2) would be more of a holiday season annoucement

I agree but we can still hope. But the Mavic Pro has been in Costco, Sam's Club, Target, ect... for a long while now.

Gray_seagull · Jan 23, 2018

Apple devices and other brands are also sold in Costco

Zandian · Jan 23, 2018

Well there you go, they sacrificed range and battery life for size. What worries me is that with my Mavic 27 min really meant about 21 min and 4 miles really meant about 3 miles. So, with the Mavic Air I would expect about 18 or less min flight time and about 1 mile max with any kind of obstructions. I just wonder how much worse the new Wi-Fi will be to Occusync and why they chose to leave it out. This really does seem to be a Spark upgrade. Wonder if the Mavic Pro upgrade is coming sometime this year then, maybe October?

Z

FuzLogix · Jan 23, 2018

Zandian said:
Well there you go, they sacrificed range and battery life for size. What worries me is that with my Mavic 27 min really meant about 21 min and 4 miles really meant about 3 miles. So, with the Mavic Air I would expect about 18 or less min flight time and about 1 mile max with any kind of obstructions. I just wonder how much worse the new Wi-Fi will be to Occusync and why they chose to leave it out. This really does seem to be a Spark upgrade. Wonder if the Mavic Pro upgrade is coming sometime this year then, maybe October?

Z

Yeah for the sake of sanity, let's just call this the Spark Pro! Thumbswayup

Zandian · Jan 23, 2018

FuzLogix said:
Yeah for the sake of sanity, let's just call this the Spark Pro!

That would make more sense to me

lightbg · Jan 23, 2018

They are looking to increase their consumer base by being able to fly without knowing how to do just that. Toss, shoot, and go home. I also think they cut the range to appease the FAA and local objectionists who think every drone is piloted by ISIS and is spying on themselves, so apparently VLOS is here to stay.

Jake

Jac89 · Jan 23, 2018

Jac89 · Jan 23, 2018

It looks cool but not a mavic

Zandian · Jan 23, 2018

lightbg said:
They are looking to increase their consumer base by being able to fly without knowing how to do just that. Toss, shoot, and go home. I also think they cut the range to appease the FAA and local objectionists who think every drone is piloted by ISIS and is spying on themselves, so apparently VLOS is here to stay.

Jake

Agreed