Really nice but ...

Really nice but ...

Red Parrot Drone BeBop Smartphone / Tablet (Electronics)

Customer Review

Input start the Drone Bebop is a beautiful toy. The camera is amazing and incredibly stable drone. For the price of a pro go there not so long ago, you have an incredible flying camera. Autonomy is correct although relatively short (ten minute flight). The packaging is neat, you have lots of different taken if you are traveling and two sets of batteries. It will nevertheless be complete a third or even a fourth. Indeed, when you have to take the car for several hours a drone out, we would be able to use a little more than 10 minutes.

Big warning those who engage in the use of drone !!! Turn right off the normal control mode to handle fashion !!! The control gyroscope phone or tablet (the default ...) is extremely erratic. The drone can in the best case does not follow the order, in the worst darken only in one direction without stopping while you have asked for anything !! On top of that, even when it works, it's completely against-intuitive if you look at the drone (in fact you must define the screen but not especially watch the beast). Mode controller is much simpler.

In my case, the drone threw himself alone in an ivy and smashed to the ground before I could stop the first morning of use. And it is that we come to the second huge failure ... the lens of the fish-eye camera.
On the one hand the camera lens well above the cabin of the drone, it is therefore protected by anything. Moreover the nose of the drone including the camera is quite heavy so just the drone then fell he would forward to that inevitably either nose touches the ground first. So the lens takes all the shocks without being assured by anything. Especially fragile, in my case it was struck on the first morning of use creating an enormous ghost in the image + disrupting the camera. No more possible focus my third flight ... not whether the camera was damaged or if the impact on the lens forced poor focus. Anyway, that's when you discover that the lens (a vulgar plastic part) is welded to the camera device. So if you scratch, you will change everything! (About 150 euros). Customer service assured me that the bug gyro fashion was known on some models and I'll get my replacement device (sent to SAV). For now I'm waiting, I have therefore used the drone that more than one hour since I got it for Christmas. I will confirm the effectiveness of the service if all goes as planned.

The images and video transfer system is effective, but prefer the wireframe mode (wifi too slow). Finally, do not forget to install a small software (type on google) on mac to make it work because it does not work natively). No worries about a PC.

Finally last little impatience, Parrot handle is not (yet?) For sale in isolation. So think about it, because if you do not take the pack from the outset, for the moment impossible to acquire the joystick.

In conclusion, a beautiful product, which is worth its low price for a drone that level. But that could still be further improved. This is far from being a toy for young children, complicated to use and very fragile. Remember to enter the joystick mode and in any case, I really advise you to protect the camera first uses the cache to not experience the same disappointment as me.

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