HoverAir X1 ProMax Captures Your Most Epic Moments in 8K

What is up guys? Welcome back to Open

Circuit RC and Tech. Today we're going

to take a look at the Hover Air X1 Pro

Max. This little foldable drone is

awesome. It is perfect for people who

are on the go, whether it's cycling,

skiing, or just by foot. This drone can

capture all kinds of really scenic and

creative videos for you. Now, a closer

look at the drone. You just fold it out

and it has these magnets that holds it

in place and you pop it out. And it has

this mesh, I think it's called HIMYM.

Um, that is a proprietary uh patented

plastic that they have that'll protect

your hands because it's made for handle

launching. And if you have a crash or

anything like that, your propellers are

protected. Now, on the sides here, we

have on this side here, you have a USB C

port

for charging the battery if it's inside

of the drone.

You also get a separate charger. If you

buy the uh bundle with two batteries,

then you can put the batteries in the

charger and charge it outside of the

drone. You can also use that to access

the internal 64 GB of storage. But below

that, you have a micro SD card slot.

That's where you're going to put an

extra card up to 1 TBTE if you want to

be able to move the card out and move

your footage around. And on the rear of

the drone, we have obstacle avoidance.

And then below that, we have a time of

flight sensor. On the bottom of the

drone, you've got a optical flow camera,

which is similar to obstacle avoidance,

but it's be looking at the ground to

help it hold position because this drone

doesn't have GPS in the drone itself.

And next to it, you have two time

offlight sensors.

And then on the front, we have our two

axis gimbal. And this has a camera that

can record 8K up to 30 fps, 8K. And it

has much higher frame rates if you want

to go to lower resolutions like 4K.

and it will capture really nice stable

footage with that twoaxis gimbal. On the

top of the drone, you have your power

button. This also let you cycle through

your modes if you're just going to use

the drone without anything else. You can

fly this drone fully automoted automated

on its own. And you don't have to worry

about a controller or anything if you

want to use that mode. You can cycle

through it. Has a little screen that

shows you what mode you're in on top.

And then you press it again to take off

whenever you're ready for the hand

launch. Now, you can also use the Hover

app, and the Hover app will let you get

a firsterson view, and he has virtual uh

joysticks you can use to fly the drone

that way. Now, if you get the kit or you

want to buy separately the joystick and

beacon, that's a great combo. As you'll

see here, the the joystick will attach

to the beacon and the arms fold down and

then you can fly the drone using your

phone and the hover app connected to OTG

cable to the beacon. Now, you can also

fly fly just using the beacon. The

beacon does have GPS built into it, so

that way it'll help with its location.

And then the drone uses advanced mapping

techniques along with radio signal

strength to be able to determine where

you are as it follows you. The beacon

adds better accuracy. You can clip it to

your shirt. Again, you don't have to

have the controller or the joystick

attached to it. And then it will follow

you using the beacon. And the beacon

also has a little FPV screen on it. You

can see the drone. And you can actually

control the drone. The little bitty mini

joystick is on the beacon. And that

beacon will also extend your range up to

one kilometer if you choose to buy the

beacon and have it uh with this, which I

will be using the Beacon today when I

take it out here and have it follow my

eBike uh e scooter, I should say. Now,

we're going to have a follow-up video of

this where I have a whole bunch of

other, you know, all the features I'm

going to test with it, but today is more

just letting you see the the camera

quality, which is sensational, and show

you how it follows uh my E scooter. So,

let's get the he scooter fired up and

we'll show you some of that footage. All

right, guys. So, I have the drone on and

the beacon is connected here. And what

I'm going to do is I'm just going to

hand launch this. Now, you want to face

it towards yourself so it can see you.

And I can I have the clip in there. I

got to get in a moment to clip it to my

shirt, but right at the moment, I can

just stick it in my pocket. And you're

just going into I already have it on

cycling mode so it can follow my e

scooter. That should be the best mode.

Should just do a quick press here.

>> Middle cycling mode. And now it's seeing

me and it should take off.

And that's all you got to do.

And then it should turn around and it

should follow me over until I get on my

e scooter. But what we're going to do

here is I'll show you how it lands.

Put your hand under it.

It should see me. And there it goes.

And it lands back in my hand. So let's

get it up in the air now and have it

actually follow my e scooter.

Hey. Hey. Hey.

As you guys can see, that worked pretty

well. Now, there's times where my e

scooter struggles a bit with these hills

here in the park. So, I probably had to

cut some of that out cuz the scooter

came to a crawling stop these hills. But

now I'm going to take it out here, just

walk around, have it follow me walking

here a little bit before we end this

video. So we want to do is we just want

to cycle through to just regular follow

mode. And it will follow the beacon. You

can do it from the beacon or you can

actually do it from the drone. I'm going

to do it from the beacon. So I'm going

to press the little green button here.

I'm going to select follow.

>> Follow.

>> Now it says follow. We should be able to

now have it follow me. So we'll just do

another hand launch.

Middle follow.

Heat. Heat.

All

right, as you guys can see, this drone

is really fantastic, especially

considering the drone itself doesn't

even have GPS. Only the Beacon does. It

followed me great. Now, I wasn't going

very fast because I said there's kind of

hills here. So, that, you know, affects

my e scooter. It did an awesome job of

following on foot. I'll be making a

follow-up video sometime this spring,

probably next month, that will show you

all the other features that this drone

can do. So, I really appreciate you guys

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