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Tony Perry commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post 3D Robotics introduces Solo, the world’s first smart drone
"@Toby

I totally understand that...It's a really cool feature for a specific application. My concern is that 3DR is trying to position this as a P3/DJI competitor but whhen you compare the feature set that most AP users care about it is essentially…"
May 5, 2015
Tony Perry commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post 3D Robotics introduces Solo, the world’s first smart drone
"The Solo equipped with a GoPro 4 and Gimbal is $1900. A Phantom 3 Pro is $1259 and already includes a 4k camera, gimbal and lightbridge. To justify purchasing a Solo instead, having that hdmi port would need to be worth about $650 to me."
May 5, 2015
Tony Perry commented on drnes's blog post Comparing Phantom 3 vs. Solo Drone
"The onboard computer exists to enable functionality. Discussion of it's processing power is largely irrelevant outside of pedantic discussions, and especially to the target consumer of both of these devices."
Apr 15, 2015
Tony Perry commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post 3D Robotics introduces Solo, the world’s first smart drone
"I'm a dji fan by no means, but you don't need a wookong to do waypoints. DJI has announced an sdk that will allow developers to implement pretty much all of the features that the solo is touting. Youve basically got two similarly capable machines…"
Apr 14, 2015
Tony Perry commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post 3D Robotics introduces Solo, the world’s first smart drone
"Looks like a great piece of hardware, except for the price. The only place I see this has the P3 beat is with the software, but that's hardly worth the massive price differential in my opinion.If 3DR wanted to go after DJI users, they missed the…"
Apr 13, 2015
Tony Perry commented on DroneMaker's blog post Phantom ground control station.
""Looks like an overpriced complete fail."

But it's for Phantom users, who are not unaccustomed to paying way more than things are worth. "
Dec 16, 2013