Is it just me

Posted by Local Idiot on June 16, 2015 at 4:31am

Im behind the times, but how did technology, lead us from a $40 battery to a $140 battery with SOLO. From a $200 gimbal to a $400 gimbal?

3dr wants to compete with phantom, thats nice, now its time to find all the parts they can make only available from 3drobotics

Any 3s battery would work, now you are in the model like dell? This is not the result of open source, this is the opposite, and I wish companies like 3dr would stop acting like they are in the open source.

The fact that the software is claimed to be open source means little, you've close sourced something pretty simple and at one time, kinda cheap, the battery. 

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    • Gregg June 17, 2015 at 5:57pm

      Save your money, rob a bank, do whatever you can to buy and inspire!!!!! Amazing craft!!!

    • wendell austria > Gregg June 18, 2015 at 1:21pm

      does dji gurantee replacement of the inspire if it flies away like 3dr will with the solo?

    • Gregg > wendell austria June 18, 2015 at 2:32pm

      Im sure there is a reason for that guarantee. It only took me 5 minutes today to watch 5 different videos of solos flying away. Actually I had a big crash with my DJI s 900, a faulty Imu and Pmu. I had a video of the crash and DJI requested it,they wound up replacing my s900 with a new unit. As long as I could prove it wasnt pilot error and they saw it was a hardware issue, they stand by there products. Does 3dr fly away insurance provide a lawyer to represent you in court when it flies away into a sue happy individual??

      Nope

    • Richard Kennedy > Gregg June 23, 2015 at 5:44pm

      Wow Gregg that isn't anything like everybody else has to says about dji. Customer service sucks! MONTHS tp get warranty work if they will pay for it at all. And BTW my brother just lost his 3rd Phantom, gimbal and gopro. He has no idea on any of them for sure what happened. And he is VERY meticulous and carefully. He bought his 4th. He said it's his last next time it's a solo. Only reason he didn't this 4th time was he really wants it for his vacation filming next month and solo takes longer than that to get. Anyway... glad your happy with the customer service. That's a 1 in a thousand experience right there Gregg. 

    • wendell austria > Gregg June 18, 2015 at 2:36pm

      cool glad to know that.

    • Gregg > wendell austria June 18, 2015 at 2:51pm

      Learned my lesson with any product wether it be dji or 3dr, video every flight to CYA! Im not a 3dr hater, I own an Iris and an x8. Love the data logging. I just get pissed when a company pushes a product thru glitsy marketing videos and sways us hard working people to drop big bucks on a product that in my eyes really hasnt been tested thoroughly. Seems the war is on between DJI  and 3DR and each company trying to rush out product to get the upper hand.

      I will most likely wait a few months until  I buy a solo. The inspire had its issues with fly aways on auto take off, but now that that is cleared up, I bought one and all is good...well for now! 

    • DG > Gregg June 19, 2015 at 6:56pm

      Love the data logging.

      You betcha. 

      http://www.phantompilots.com/threads/anatomy-of-a-dji-flyaway.42997/

      To date has DJI publicly acknowledged a Phantom flyaway due to faulty hardware or software bug?

      How well does Inspire do autonomous flights using waypoints?

  • Sigitas Ciapas June 16, 2015 at 4:38am

    How can you compare IRIS battery with SOLO?

    And how can you compare 2-axis gimbal with 3-axis gimbal?

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