Fun and Inexpensive Christmas Gifts Shopping Guide of Four Entertainment UAVs

The annual Christmas is only a few days to go. Single guys, lovers and couples, have you already prepared the gifts? Today we would like to recommend some fashionable and interesting entertainment UAVs to you, you can choose one of them as Christmas gift.

It seems like a tradition to give gifts at the western festivals, but as for practical gifts with personality, the entertainment UAV can be a good choice. It can be used to propose, to see the things in the sky and so something romantic together, and to let you see the scenery in the distance without walking long away, it's also a gorgeous self stick, making your gift full of personality.

1.WALKERA Runner 250 Advance

What’s cool: Flexible operation, anti-broken

Market price: 2399 yuan

Among the domestic excellent UAV companies, Guangzhou Walkera Technology CO., LTD is committed to becoming a company that has global innovation high-end wireless products, UAV flight control system and ground station control system, professional film and television aerial photography platform, top commercial cloud platform system, and HD remote digital image transmission system. Walkera is not an emerging UAV product research and development company, it has decades of experience in R & D, production, sales and service. One that can achieve the first person vision aerial photography experience among the Walkera UAV product line, is the Walkera Runner 250 Advance.

I have to say that what makes the Walkera Runner Advance 250 impressive the most is its exquisite appearance. Its body is small but its structure is firm, the weight of it is only 570g (batteries included), it is packed by backpack rather than the traditional box, everything is designed for easy carrying and releasing. Although it is positioned as a traversing machine, the main way of playing of this UAV is high-speed flight However, considering the UAV beginners, it is installed the GPS system, the turn indicators and the buzzer alarm and other functions, which is full of personality. As for the accessories, self-tightening paddles, batteries, chargers, data lines and other gadgets are all available, which help the beginners cross the threshold easily. The remote control handle collocates with the Walkera DEVO 7 designed with four bearings, its uncomplicated key design and good hand feeling can allow consumers to learn how to control the UAV without the cost of learning.

Runner 250 Advance adopts modular design, it is very easy to uninstall and reinstall the modules such as the body frame, motor, brushless electronic speed control, OSD and other modules as long as you follow the instructions for installation, which is very convenient for the replacement of the inner parts. There are cool and warm LED lights both in front and at the back of the Runner 250 Advance, which helps you to easily identify the direction when you control the UAV. The body frame itself is made of carbon fiber materials, and there is no need to worry about its firmness. In fact, I have made many mistakes during the flight, however, the main part of Runner 250 Advance is still intact, and the carbon fiber body frame is very reassuring.

The traversing machine is a very interesting kind of aerial UAVs. If you haven’t manipulated it skillfully, you can use the GPS practice to get familiar with the operations such as the fixed height and fixed point flight and the one-key-return function. When you feel that you have made progress in the operation, you can be assured to boldly push the throttle flying forward and sprinting. And with your proficiency getting improved, you can wear the Walkera goggle classes and completely enjoy the exciting first person vision (FPV) experience in which you are just like sitting on the plane!

Comments: We can rush through the jungle with the first person vision, which the characteristic of the UAV. If you think the car race games are boring, then race the planes. As for the price, the Runner 250 Advance is only 2399 yuan, it is pretty cost-effective among the UAV products. You can pay attention to this one if you want to learn the ABC of and manipulate the aerial UAV skillfully in this season.

2.Zerotech XPLORER

Zerotech was once a company that focuses on professional and industrial application UAVs, and XPLORER is the first product that indicates that Zerotech has marched into the consumer aerial UAV industry at zero. The position of XPLORER is similar to that of the DJI PHANTOM series. But it is noteworthy that there are big differences between a consumer UAV and a one-hundred or two-hundred-yuan toy aircraft, and the UAV and the toy are two different concepts.

The Zerotech XPLORER is a small four axis UAV with a wheelbase of about 330mm and a 9 inch propeller. The feature of XPLORER product is modular design. The cloud terrace, camera, battery and fuselage motherboard are detachable modules, so the maintenance and the replacement are very convenient, and upgrading the modules in the future is also very simple. XPLORER is divided into standard version, V version and G version. The standard version only consists of the fuselage, battery, and remote control; the V version has a three axis stability argumentation cloud terrace, a built-in HD camera, a picture transmission extender used to transmit pictures additionally on the basis of the standard version; and the G version, on the basis of the standard version, additionally has a three axis stability argumentation cloud terrace that matches GoPro (GoPro doesn’t provide), and a picture transmission extender used to transmit pictures. The price of the three versions is 2499 yuan, 3999 yuan, and 3999 yuan respectively.

Comments: Different from the common white and rounded DJI PHANTOMs, the design of the appearance of the Zerotech XPLORER is quite of future sense. I believe the cool guys will love the appearance of XPLORER. As for function, the shooting effect of the three axis stability argumentation cloud terrace is beyond question, that is quite stable. It is said that Zerotech is also developing an automatic obstacle avoidance function based on radar detection, if the module size is not large, it is really a good function for a beginner.

3.DJI Phantom 3 Advanced

What’s cool: Stable flight control system

Market prices: Advanced Version 5999 yuan, Standard Version 4799 yuan, and Professional Version 7499 yuan

DJI is a domestic UAV manufacturer, which is very well known in the field of UAV. Its market share is over 50%. Phantom 3 is the third generation product of DJI entry-level entertainment UAV, which has high technology content and many fans in China.

The Phantom 3 is a small four axis UAV with a wheelbase of about 330mm and a 9 inch propeller. Phantom 3 is divided into three versions, one is Professional, and the other is Advanced, the former one has a 4K camera and a 100W charger, the latter one has a 1080p camera and a 57W charger (charger power can influence charging speed). Except these, there is no difference between the two versions. Phantom 3 Pro sells for 7499 yuan, Phantom 3 Adv sells for 5999 yuan. The Standard version has been launched subsequently, priced at 4799 yuan.

Comments: The overall function of DJI Phantom 3 is pretty good, HD digital picture transmission, three axis stability argumentation cloud terrace, and GPS+GLonASS dual satellite positioning are the leading technology in the UAV industry. The Adv version is the same as the Pro version as for the flight control system, the aerial video is the difference, the Pro supports 4K, and the Adv supports 2.7K. At present, the 4K video is more significant for commercial purposes, and the 1080P video is sufficient for daily use. However, problems such as the indoor visual positioning function that has been overstated by the officials has a lot of restrictions (carpets and tiles are not allowed), the damage speed of the battery electric core is too fast, the stability can be influenced by the new firmware and so on are the ones that many users actually meet and feedback. So Phantom 3 is an imperfect product, and the high price can not be accepted by many people at present.

4.EHANG GhostDrone 2.0

What’s cool: Brand new operation experience

Market prices: Standard Version 2499 yuan,Cloud Terrace Version 3499 yuan, Aerial Version 5699 yuan, Flagship Version 7299yuan

As a leading UAV manufacturer in China, Ehang has been concentrating on the technology development of UAV. In the past year, its products have been sold in more than 70 countries, and the team has grown from the first 5 people to a team of 200 people. The GhostDrone 2.0 UAV series has four products, they are standard version, cloud terrace version, aerial version and flagship version, and through the color collocation of red and black, white and blue, the integration of the fashionable sport elements and the scenes of science and technology, the UAVs bring us with lively and vivid visual aesthetic experience.

GHOST DRONE 2 is a small 4 axis UAV, it has a 8.5 inch two leaf self-tightening propeller, 4500mAh power and a 14.8V ultra high pressure 4S electric core, its flight time can reach 25 minutes. Its aerial suite is a spherical camera that can take 12 million pixel static photos and photograph 30 times consecutively in a second. The camera can record 1080P, 2.7K and 4K HD video, and it will perform better with the new three axis cloud terrace. This three axis cloud terrace supports Ehang 4K spherical camera, Ehang motion camera 2.0 and GoPro motion camera. The user can manipulate synchronously the flight attitude of the UAV by tilting, swinging and rotating the smart phone or tablet computer that has installed the Ehang APP, and control the flight speed by changing the tilt angle. The GHOST DRONE 2 can achieve indoor flight without GPS signal. Even in the absence of GPS signals, indoor flight can be safely carried out, the flight of the UAV is totally controlled by the manual operation, freedom of roam can be realized.

Comments: Ehang has also launched the VR image transmission glasses, it has the head posture tracking function to realize the first person vision manipulation experience. The user can directly control the action of cloud terrace like pitching through the head movements, it also has 2.4G digital transmission and 5.8G image transmission to achieve the stable transmission of data and image communication. It is also equipped with a front camera, you can directly view the front scene without taking off the glasses. GHOST DRONE 2 has a brand new manipulation mode, it simplifies the standardized operation of the remote control and separates the cloud terrace control and the flight control, which makes it easier to manipulate the UAV. As for price, it is more three-dimensional, ranging from low configuration to high configuration, and we can choose according to our budget.

Summary: For beginners, I recommend the Runner 250 Advance of Walkera, it is very cost-effective. As crash is unavoidable for the beginners, the anti-broken ability of the Walkera won’t let you waste your money; the pioneering control mode of Ehang GHOST DRONE 2.0 allows you to control the UAV as you like; although Phantom 3 of DJI has better overall flight control capability, but it costs much in terms of function implementation. Finally, I hope that when we enjoy the flying experience brought by the UAVs, we should also pay attention to the safety.