I just bought my first drone, the DJI Mini 2. No is only the most sensible on our list of drones, but its lightweight nature makes flight rules lax, very productive for a first flight. What’s not so Productive, however, is how confusing it is to set it up.
I refer to the meeting of the drone: the stickers on the frame (which can be seen in the symbol above) facilitate the deployment of the limbs and the removal of the gimbal protector. No, I mean the application scenario.
Now, I’m not a drone expert, but I install and play with apps as part of my day job, so it shouldn’t have been the task for me that it turned out to be. DJI has so many other apps that it’s incredibly confusing to know which one you intended to use.
When I became familiar with the design of the DJI Mini 2, charged its batteries and checked the instruction manual, it was time to set up the device and knew I needed an app for that.
I remembered the commands I called DJI Fly or DJI Go or DJI Air, so in the search bar of the Google Play Store I searched for ‘DJI’. . . to locate many programs that seemed possible.
There were DJI Go, DJI Go four and DJI Pilot, as well as two other applications from the company that obviously didn’t seem right. None of them had a user rating higher than 1. 4 stars, which is rarely very good, and they appear at a glance as fake apps.
So which one is right? DJI Go said “For pre-Pfour products,” while Go four said “For Pfour drones. “
To find more answers, I had to go through the description of each application separately, go through the list of compatible devices and check mine opposite them. . . that’s when I found out that none of those 3 apps were the right one.
I had to spend more time searching my phone for ‘dji app mini 2’, which led me to DJI’s online page; here I found out that the right app wasn’t Go, Go 4 or Pilot, but a fourth one called DJI Fly that I got here didn’t look like it was on the Play Store at all.
I had to upload this through DJI’s website, which is rarely precisely the best solution given the inherent dangers of downloading and installing apps outside the Play Store. time: much more than you think installing an application to set up a drone.
After all that, thankfully the app worked and I was able to set up my new cinematic tool. But it’s a much more confusing procedure than it is.
On our list of the most productive drones, we called the DJI Mini 2 “the most productive drone for beginners”, partly because of that I bought it, because I need to take wonderful videos of panoramic landscapes, and I think the Mini will be a wonderful way to learn.
But if installing a drone is so painful, it may just scare away other people who are eager to learn to fly, and who have also spent a lot of money on a new flying camera.
Drones are scary to use: When I took the Mini 2 out of the case, I was terrified, as it is small and sensitive and I knew that a drop could put it out of service. The risks of flying, as well as the regulations on where you can fly and the qualifications or certifications you want to do so are likely to discourage many people.
DJI will have to make it as simple as possible for users to use their products, dispel their fears as much as possible, and get them to use the drone quickly. , it will only make worries worse.
What is the solution? Simple: Have a single app that works with all drones. Oh, and DJI deserves to wonder why everyone also provides 1-star reviews to the app; at first glance, I thought it was a fraudulent app, not DJI’s smart, official one.
Now that I’m there, the app comes in handy, with guides for limited spaces and painting systems for beginners like me. I wish it had been less difficult to make it work in the first place.
Tom’s role on the TechRadar team is to specialize in phones and tablets, but he also supports other technologies such as electric scooters, smartwatches, fitness, cellular gaming, and more. He is in London, United Kingdom.
She graduated in American Literature and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Prior to working at TechRadar, I was self-employed in the technology, gaming and entertainment industries, and also spent many years as a mixologist. Outside of TechRadar, he works in film as a screenwriter, director and producer.
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