Leaks reveal a new DJI drone with a compact folding design

The adjacent summation to DJI’s lineup of compact folding drones has been revealed successful leaked images, videos, and FCC filings. The caller DJI Flip, which has propeller guards akin to the DJI Neo, volition person a folding plan that resembles the HoverAir X1, according to a video shared by reliable leaker Jasper Ellens connected X.

DJI's existent folding drones, including the Mini 4 Pro and Mini 3, diagnostic collapsing propellers and arms that fold towards the sides of each drone’s body. The guarded propellers connected the DJI Flip look to alternatively fold downwards successful the leaked animation, resulting successful each 4 of them being neatly stacked to assistance marque the drone smaller and easier to transport erstwhile not being flown.

The summation of propeller guards volition not lone marque the DJI Flip safer for novices to fly, but its larger propellers and their ducted plan could besides marque the caller drone quieter, according to DroneXL. Other features spotted successful the leaked representation and animation see a camera connected a three-axis gimbal, landing limb supports nether the beforehand propellers, enactment for DJI’s O4 video transmission system, and an “advanced LiDAR array matching the DJI Air 3S’s sensor capabilities,” says DroneXL.

The caller leaks travel method details and the archetypal look astatine the DJI Flip revealed successful FCC filings past week by Jasper Ellens. The Flip volition vessel with a 3,110mAh artillery — larger than the DJI Neo’s 1,435mAh that allows the smaller drone to alert for up to 18 minutes. That’s besides larger than the 2,590mAh that ships with the DJI Mini 4 Pro and the DJI Mini 3’s 2,453mAh battery, which gave some of those drones formation times of 34 to 38 minutes.

What’s inactive chartless are pricing details oregon erstwhile the DJI Flip volition launch, though DroneXL suspects it could beryllium announced arsenic aboriginal arsenic January 2025. Jasper Ellens besides believes the Flip volition beryllium DJI’s replacement for the Mini 5 oregon Mini 5 Pro that was expected to debut sometime successful precocious 2024 oregon aboriginal 2025.