Veho Muvi Drone UAV Quadcopter with 1080p HD built in camera, Satellite Navigation and Live view APP

Many have had issues with the drone becoming a killer drone and flying wildly at the start of the flight at low altitudes. Mine thankfully seems to fly stable and safe. The fact that my drone was easy to fly and pretty stable is about the only thing I can say positively about this drone. My issues are below.First, it takes forever to calibrate the GPS before you fly. You have to do it over and over before it finally takes. On top of that the manual is wrong in how to calibrate it and you have to find and use the Muvi video online.Second, the mount and app are terrible. The app will not stay connected and does not work with the newer phones. The mount will also not work with phones that have a case which means you have to take off any case. Since the mount is not very strong that can lead to the phone hitting the pavement pretty easily.Third, the camera and mount are a weak point. Unless you are flying on a totally windless day, and I mean totally, the video quality looks really bad and shaky compared to most other quality drones.Forth, the battery is unreliable and apparently made of gold. Some people get a new drone and the battery will not take a charge at all. In my case it stopped taking a charge after only a handful of flights. This leads me to my final issue.Finally, the worst part. There is zero support for this drone. The only parts you can get are spare props and a very expensive battery which currently sells for close to $400. The reason for the high price is because the battery is no longer being made so keep that in mind.I recommend buying a drone from a company that has been around for a while and making drones as their primary business and not a side business. Otherwise you will end up with an expensive paperweight.

I decided to purchase 2 of these and conduct some aggressive tests on model 1. This is a very stable drone. I actually conducted my first flight at night, which was very easy due to the LED markings. GPS calibration is easy and if you follow the YouTube steps, you'll be perfectly fine. The only vague and confusing User Guide areas are regarding connectivity with the range extender. The manual states to connect to the camera, when in fact you should connect your phone's wifi to the actual extender, not the camera. The extender and camera are already paired and if you try to connect to the camera..... Your range extender is useless, since it is not connected to your actual device (phone). The other flaw, is during calibration - nose should be upwards, not downwards. You'll notice in the video, calibration is done upwards. My advice: "Read the entire manual". The recovery feature works like a charm. I flew as far as I could out of range and bam!, it came back home safely each and every time. However, make sure you're landing spot is clear above, the drone won't know if there are any trees above you, so calibrate your GPS spot in a clear area. I experienced some crashes with this little guy, and the propellers are amazingly durable. However, these guards are not very durable. I may actually customize my own with a light aluminum or carbon material. Video could be a bit more stable, but still very very nice! Make sure you have a good network signal on your phone, otherwise you may get image drops every couple seconds on the app. And again, pair with the range extender, not the cam. The x-drone does very well in windy conditions with the GPS toggle feature. I recommend this product, especially for what you get at this price. That's why I bought 2. If you do the math; new props, new guards, extra battery... you're already close to $300 dollars. For a few more dollars, you have a backup drone ; ) Have fun and feel free to ask me any questions regarding this product directly.

First thing to mention. This drone meets all the FAA requirements recently set out so you MUST register this drone with the FAA.I've played around with toy drones like the Syma 5XC and decided to get a larger professional drone for photography purposes. The Muvi X-Drone came up during Amazons black Friday week for half its list price so decided to go with this rather than the DJI which I was initially going to get. There were no reviews at the time so this was going to be a bit of a gamble.The Muvi X-Drone comes nicely packaged and well padded in its large box and includes everything you need to get you flying (except for AA batteries for the handset) including a spare set of propellers. Assembly is very easy. Basically just charge the battery and extender, twist on the props and tighten and screw on the propeller guards if you wish to use them. Screws, a screwdriver and a propeller tightening tool are all included. There is an included manual taking you step by step through the assembly process if you should need it (you probably won't) and there is also a nice little video on the Muvi site showing you assembly.The Battery.The battery itself is fairly large and has a nice feature on the back whereby you can press a button and get an indicator of the remaining charge (split into thirds) to give you a quick idea of how much flight time you have left. A full battery charge takes around an hour and half and according to specs should be good for around 20 minutes of flight time. This is not quite true however as you will spend time aligning the GPS etc. before flight. In reality you get around 16-17 minutes of flight time on a full charge.The Camera.The Muvi X-Drone has a nice built in 16Mp camera featuring a sensor like the ones you get on small compact cameras (a 1/2.3 size sensor). It has a range of modes which you operate through the downloadable app so that you can change frame rate, video resolution, camera single shot or multi-shot (10fps) etc. Note that by default the video mode is set to PAL (the British standard) so the first thing you would want to do is to change that to NTSC (American standard). Video is recorded in .mov format (H264 codec) and is easily transferred to .mp4 format through tools such as Bigasoft MP4 converter for uploading to websites or Facebook. Still images are nice and clear and movies are sharp however there seems to be a rolling associated with movies. I'm not sure if this is something to do with the propellers affecting the video or whether its the camera itself but every video I have shot so far has a rolling effect to it. Don't get me wrong however the video is very good, clear and definitely useable. There are four different zoom modes that you have access to ranging from ultra wide angle to narrow. The camera is gimbaled slightly to give you a smoother picture but only operates up and down (full forward to roughly 90 degrees downward). You cannot swivel the camera on the x axis.The App.The Muvi X-Drone app is compatible with Android and IOS devices. It supplies you with basic information like the state of the battery, controls to switch between video, single shot camera and multi-shot and access to the options for setting things like frame rate, zoom mode etc. for the camera. Most of the display is taken up with a video feed so that you can see exactly what the camera on the drone is looking at. There is a noticeable (roughly 2 second) gap between the picture you see on the app and what is happening with the drone itself so you have to bear this in mind when moving the camera or the drone. One big downside to the app (and something the DJI app does) is tell you how far and high the drone is from you. This is a big omission especially since now you are not allowed to fly drones above 400ft however you have no way of knowing how high the drone actually is.The handset.The handset is large, sturdy and feels nice to the touch. Easily holdable for the complete duration of a flight. On the handset there are four sets of toggle switches along the top, the main drone controls and buttons for starting and stopping video recording and taking pictures. The toggle switches are nice and large and easily accessible whilst flying although to be honest for the most you won't actually touch 3 of the toggles and really only use the switch for the camera to move it up and down. The right most toggle is your control mode, whether you wish to fly it in GPS mode or manual flight. Always use GPS mode and I'll get into why a little later. The handset also included a holder for your phone (it easily fits my Samsung S6 Edge plus which is a fairly large phone) and next to that sits the wireless range extender. According to the specs the drone itself can fly up to 500m (roughly 1640ft) however the wireless range extender only works up to 300m (roughly 948ft).Flight.Flying the drone is extremely easy. Much easier infact than toy drones due in most part to its auto hover feature. When you get to your destination where you wish to fly the drone, the first thing you want to do is to align the GPS. Now this is where the manual the Muvi's site differ. The manual tells you one way to align the GPS however the video on the Muvi site tells you a completely different way of doing it. The Muvi website has a short video on how to align the GPS. Use this and not what the manual says. Simply do a search for Muvi X-Drone and you will find it. Aligning the drone is a case of moving both controller sticks to the top inside (left stick moves up right, right stick moves up left) and after a second or two the lights on the drone will start to flash. Next, being careful you need to pick up the drone and move it around its 3 axis (refer to the video on the Muvi site). Once aligned the front green lights on the drone will turn solid and you are aligned and ready for flight.Once aligned, make sure the right most toggle on the controller is set to GPS. One of the features that the Muvi X-Drone has is that it will automatically return to base should you fly it out of range or the drone loses contact with the handset. This only works in GPS mode and is essential as its one of the biggest downsides to this drone.Losing connection.Since getting the drone I have taken it out to fly 11 times. Every time I have it to GPS mode and I am so glad that I did. Out of the 11 flights I have lost contact with the drone 10 times. So far there has only been one flight where I was in complete control of the drone from start to finish. It seems to be fairly random as well. I have flown the drone higher and farther in still had contact with it whilst other times I lose contact. An example. I took the drone out to a location and after flying for around 2 minutes lost all control of the drone. With having it on GPS mode, the drone returned home and landed. I took off again and managed to fly higher and further, from the exact same spot whilst still in complete control of the drone. As said, I have taken this drone to 11 different locations and lost control of the drone 10 times during the first flights. This cuts down on your flight time as it spends time returning home and landing and in my opinion is a massive problem with the Muvi X-Drone. Especially now with the government getting involved in drone flights. Losing control of the drone also affects your confidence in the product. How far dare I fly it? How high? Should I fly it over water? It is very hard to say as you don't know whether or when you will lose control of the drone.This is the reason I say that you must fly this drone using GPS every single time as with GPS mode the drone will return home (at least it has with me so far although my confidence that this will happen every time is not there).Overall.So overall this is professional drone with an excellent semi-stabilized camera in it. The app is quite good although basic and missing some key information and there is a roughly 2 second delay in the picture updating in the app. Control is very easy when you do actually have control but there is a serious lack of confidence in the Muvi X-Drone as you regularly lose all control of the drone itself.This could have been a superb drone and one to rival DJI's Phantom however as it is I am apprehensive every single time I fly it and will be buying the DJI Phantom to replace this.