HoverAir X1 PROMAX Drone Review In-Depth - How it all REALLY Works! Accessories TESTED!

Go spin around here. Whoa. Hey guys,

thanks for tuning in. Guess what? Today

we're testing out the Hover X1 Pro Max

version. Little mini pocketable drone

you can just fold up, put in your

pocket, take anywhere with you, skiing,

cycling, walking, or whatever. But today

is going to be all about how good this

thing actually is. Pros and cons. It's

got a lot of good things about it and

it's got a few bad things about it, too.

How good is it? Let's find out.

So, this one here is the cycling combo.

This is the one I have here. So, that's

what's in this box. And then that's why

I had them send this extra stuff because

I also wanted these extra peripherals to

try them out. Wow. So, we've got a two

layer deal here. Voila. Wo! Everything's

linked together. Wo! Oh, this is cool.

Look at this. It's like a saddle bag.

Two packages that zip together. Look at

this. What a great idea, man. Let's see

if we can do it. There we go. Not too

bad. So, zip it up like this. Does have

like a semi waterproof zipper here.

Sure. The shoulder straps going to be in

here. Let's open this side first. Power

adapter. So, that's that 65 watt for

fast charging. And here is the

multi-charger. Let's see what we got on

the other side. Shoulder strap.

And then Velcro shut magnetic adapter

mount for the beacon.

The beacon itself can also go into these

two little controller sticks so you can

control it like that. ND filters. Way

cool. Handlebar mount for the bike. Just

open the repair kit and basically four

propellers. Kind of neat how they have

them all on these little foam studs.

Screwdriver. And we just have two

protectors here with magnets on them.

Let's open the main vent up. Okay.

And open this bad boy up. Here we go.

Sliding out. So, a couple more magnets

there holding it together. And voila.

They kind of went the extra mile on

packaging. Very nice. So, here's the

drone here sitting in its little cubby.

Charge it on the drone in the

multi-charger or in the charge case. So,

it does have an Android or an iOS app.

USB C to C about a foot or so long.

another bag. This is specifically just

for the drone itself. Guys, I'm also

reviewing the Neo2. It'll be in my

channel. The reason I mentioned that is

because check out the camera, how it

flips up when it shuts down. That's like

a precautionary measure, which the Neo2

also does. So, there's our camera. It's

supposed to do 4K

60 frames per second. We're going to

test all that out. So, it is a twoaxis

gimbal. We have a roll axis and we have

a pitch axis, but there is no kind of uh

yaw side to side axis. It's just all

rubber dampers, ground sensing camera as

well as lidar. Taking a look at the

rear. Check this out. So, two more

sensors and a camera. I doubt that this

is going to be omniirectional, but it

looks like the rear's taken care of. And

the front. So, possibly a little weird

on the sides. You might crash on the

sides, but we're going to test that all.

We have a single button press on the top

and then we have these two side ring

buttons for left and right for choosing

modes. Looks like we're just pulling the

battery off kind of like it was in the

X1 original nonpro version. Would have

been cool to see like a little tab to

push or something, but they're keeping

it simple. All you do is push in the

back and plop down the front. So, if you

did hit hard on something, it looks like

this might fall out, but it's pretty in

there. it would be hard to kind of get

your fingers in there unless you're

really trying to poke through with your

pinky or maybe a kid is trying to poke

their fingers through. So, you're still

going to want to be careful. So, they

give you this little sample to try to

break. And this is just to show you how

durable this plastic is. Look at that.

And this is the material they're using

in the whole drone. Okay. All the

plastic. So, it looks like it will bend.

Like I'm really tweaking it there. See

how it will bend? But it takes that much

to bend it and then it just comes back.

Not cracking or anything. And by the way

guys, this is winter time. You may

notice by all the snow everywhere and

it's around 40° today. We'll just put it

camera down first and put it right down

into the bag. You could put it either

way you wanted. It's a little bit big to

fit in like a jeans pocket. I can fit it

in here. It's just a little bulky,

right? So you got to have some baggy

jeans. Probably easier to put it in like

your sweater pocket or something. Last

thing in the box, guys, is all the info.

And this is a pretty hefty manual here.

That's crazy. Wow. Looks like they're

providing these stickers if you want to

kind of dress your drone up. Kind of

cool. I don't know why we need four sets

though. The same thing. Battery safety,

warranty card, disclaimer, and the

instruction manual. Okay guys, so just

to save you the unboxing time, I went

ahead and unboxed everything here. Here

we have the 65 watt adapter bike mount

clip design kind of like how the DJI

guys have their Osmo and stuff. So you

can clip this. So you have multiple

options here. You don't have to have

your phone if you don't want to. You

don't have to have anything if you don't

want to. You can just fly that sucker

with handsree with no phone or nothing.

This is a ingenious idea. You basically

connect these two little guys, clip them

all together, pull these guys out, tilt

them down, put your phone in here, Pixel

A9 phone, and then here's a little

joysticks here. They even give you two

types of joysticks. Here's the

multi-charger. Two batteries with the

battery on top. So, you have a total of

three batteries. N8, 16, 32, and 64 ND

filter. Those things are pretty nice

looking. There's actually an app option

to turn on if you want to use those.

Last but not least, guys, is this guy

here. So, this is the power case. You

pop it in this case. And check this out.

So, we're going to pull it open. If you

look over here, there is a connector

that it needs to push into the drone.

They actually have two of them right

here on the sides. So, you pull this

little adapter out and you see that

thing there? Just basically a very super

short USB C connector right there. And

that's going to actually go into the

drone. Just push it into the USBC on the

drone. Slide it into that outside slot

where the tab is. And when you push it

in, it locks in and you get a charge

notification with the percentage of the

actual drone battery, how much charge

the drone has. And then the top LED

lights right here, that's going to show

you how much charge the actual battery

has in the power case. input and an

output port right here. And that's going

to give us the ability to plug in and

charge the case before we get out there

and also output power. So, if we have a

predicament where we need to charge our

phone or something, take this skiing

with you and you have a warm drone ready

to go. Okay, guys. What do you say we

try the Pro Max out with that higher

wattage charger that was supplied with

this combo? I have a battery in my

pocket as well here. took about a half

an hour from these batteries were

charged up about 23 or 25% and it also

took about a half an hour. If you pop

your drone in here, they're calling it a

thermal case. Remember, they have

thermal up here. It seems like it's just

um relying on the heat from charging the

battery and it's keeping that little bit

of warmth in the case for those extra

cold days. So, it seems like that's

working pretty well. For this first

flight, we're just going to be using the

phone, the drone. I haven't even

connected it yet. So, let's go through

that real quick. I'm just going to

install. Just go hover x1 search in your

Android or Apple. And I see a hover 00