Drone with 4K UHD Camera for Adults,S159 Pro GPS Drone Brushless Motor,Upgraded 4.5" Screen, Smart FPV Foldable Quadcopter for Beginners, Auto Return, Follow Me, Waypoints, 60 Mins Flight Time,Gift

Item is packaged nicely and has simply enough instructions. The drone is lightweight and appears functional. After taking the time to calibrate the drone and go through all set up steps, finally pressed "auto-take off" and the drone took flight. The hand held remote captured clear images in real-time, but the drone seemed to be stuck accelerating and veering to a side. It just kept flying away in a straight line and the remote would not control the drone. Inevitably, the drone left the receiver's range and was lost connection. The drone did not return to take-off location when out of range, as manufacturer claims it would. Drone gone and I am left with an extra battery and a hand-held remote.

I wanted so much to like this S159 drone. I’ve worked with several other budget drones under $300 myself and wanted a drone for my grandson. I wasn’t expecting much, and with even that I was disappointed. I only needed a somewhat reliable drone which worked without a phone. It was also confusing since most of the ‘intelligent’ features are only available using the phone app controller and not on the remote control itself. I’ll begin my review with what I didn’t like based on the product description and the box labeling. I realize there seems to be some quality control issues, so I’m only commenting on my specific drone…which I’ll be returning. The hand control does NOT have a touch screen as stated on the product box. The obstacle avoidance feature only applies to flying indoors without GPS. There is NO EIS Anti-Shake feature in the picture quality, and thus it’s pretty jittery since the drone wobbles a bit. All video and pictures are stored on the controller itself, so the video feed received at the controller is what is recorded/saved. While I didn’t experience ‘toilet bowling” on takeoff, that symptom seemed to occur on every return to home…and yes it did connect to enough satellites. It only includes 4 spare propellers where most drones include a full replacement set of 8 or 2 sets of 16. What I did like were the features for the cost, which on the surface make this product a good value. The batteries though taking ‘forever’ to charge…do seem to last about 30 minutes each and you get a good power level readout on the drone itself. It also includes a micro SD card. Now to the two remote control options. The handheld controller does a pretty good job but takes a very long time to connect to the drone and then obtain satellite locks. There are no intelligent features on this remote. The remote-control construction is fair but low-quality materials. The included 32Gb microSD card is inserted in the control but is easily corrupted if you do not stop recording before turning off the controller. Though it’s implied by the built-in phone holder and in the included instructions, the handheld remote can work in tandem with the phone app. However in practice the two ‘remotes’ tend to fight each other for a connection to the drone. The phone app ‘RX Drone’ is a fairly generic app with many features and seems to be updated regularly. This app exposes all the ‘intelligent’ features but is difficult to use since you must also expose the virtual control pad on the screen. The virtual control pad is a bit sensitive depending on your screen and fingertips. Your phone/tablet MUST have GPS hardware for the app to install. I was expecting and hoping that when I first opened the app and connected to the drone’s Wi-Fi, I would be told of a firmware update, but never received any such alert. Most of the screen display is intuitive, but the main readouts for battery life and satellites are tiny. While you can pull up the (Google) maps, it is always zoomed out to the entire world so you must hit a button to center and zoom the map locally. Likewise, there are no map display options. On almost every occasion I received a flashing warning about restricted airspace, even though the nearest restricted airspace is 25 miles away. Most settings are only accessed by first bringing up the functions menu. There is a (single) waypoint feature which allows placing multiple waypoints on the map, including settings for each waypoint, but I couldn’t ever get it to work. Some of those settings (speed, altitude) never change and there is no indication of how to get the drone to begin the flightpath. Therefore, I didn’t try the other intelligent features such as follow me or surround. All in all, this might be a good drone for an adult with large open spaces available to work around the flawed features, which appear to be firmware or software based.

so I finally received this drone today and I’m reviewing it now after a couple of hours of having it since 11 o’clock this morning I have to say I absolutely love the drone. The only thing the only thing that I do not love is the battery it dies so quickly and when I got the drone, I charged both batteries to full percentage and both batteries combine are supposed to give you about 60 minutes of play time that is nowhere near what I got to play with because I decided to time myself from the time that I even turned on the drone and controller and it wasn’t even 60 minutes. It was 20 minutes and both batteries only lasted about 10 minutes and both batteries are promised to be 25 minutes of playtime or a.k.a. flight time but the batteries are an issue and I’m hoping the company update those or fix those as soon as possible and makes it compatible with all of their drones and makes it longer lasting but other than that everything else was fine. The video quality is OK it’s not amazing but it’s OK. It’s good for you to see clear a little bit and the drone flys really good. You just have to get used to it because I crashed it like two times but other than that, I’m sure somebody would love this as a little birthday gift or something or like a Christmas present!

Don't buy! This drone flew good one time. The second flight it began circling by its self then crashed to the ground. The obstacle avoidance didn't work. Then on my third flight the drone as soon as I took off from the ground almost immediately started circling again. Not wanting it to crash I took it up. To my surprise it stopped so I began flying it out away from me, straight away. The drone never stopped, I had no control over it. That was a week ago. Still haven't found the drone. The company won't refund or replace. Stay away from this one!!

It didn't last long, and the features were not very good, although to be fair, i am not very good at flying drones. It was easy to use though, and the controls worked well. It did fly high and still had connection.