DJI Neo Review - A Disappointing Start With A Hopeful Future

Here I review the new DJI Neo self flying camera drone.

PRODUCTS SEEN IN THIS VIDEO:
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THE GEAR I USE TO MAKE THESE VIDEOS:
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Main camera:
Wide angle lens:
22mm lens:
Secondary camera:
Gimbal (FeiyuTech):
DJI Pocket 2:
Osmo Pocket 1:
Osmo Pocket Wide Angle Lens:
Drone (Mavic Mini):
Motorized Camera Dolly:
Smallrig Magic Arm:
Video LED Light:

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Vocal mic:
Voiceover mic:
Lavalier mic:
Audio Interface:
Audio Field Recorder:

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Keyboard:
DAW:
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[alexcooper]

Fantastic review! I'm just a beginner in the drone world, and Neo is my very first drone . I'm loving it 🤩! It's incredibly entertaining. Right now, I'm deep-diving into all kinds of tutorial videos, trying to learn the ins and outs of adjusting the clarity and shooting some awesome videos. I'm super pleased with this little flyer! Any pro-tips are much appreciated as I navigate this high-flying hobby!

[Localtraveler]

Thanks for the honest review. I think a lot of the reviewers are scared to give an honest review and ruin their relationship. Seems like they should have worked in it a bit longer before releasing it. Strange for DJI to release a product before it’s ready.

[grauraum]

And again an honest unbiased review. Love your work! Keep on, please!

[markknight]

If you have a DJI controller you can adjust the video quality settings. Sharpness set to -2 and Noise reduction set to 0 seems to give a much better image. If you do not have a DJI controller you can not adjust these setting but hopefully DJI will add them to the mobile app.

[redcook]

Nice video I ordered my neo last week. This will be my first dji and for the price nothing comes close for a fun selfie drone and first fpv drone to get into the game, can't wait

[wkwong]

Spot on review. I have both the Neo & X1 and feel the same way.

[Wholiganify]

Love the honesty in your videos, and this one in particular, backed up by solid evidence. Good job!
Sorry about Nutmeg ❤

[pmfilmsUK]

I returned mine exactly for this reason. Just have to wait for a Neo with a 10bit Log, then it will have my attention.

[aimlessdk]

Thanks for the good and honest review.

I just picked up one the other day as my first ever drone. Great fun and I don't mind most of the limitations. However, given the fact that it sits well below the 250g weight limit of C0 drones, I really wished they would have made an option to buy a bigger battery. Hopefully it will be available at some point, as it would be so much better with a larger battery (maybe even LifePO4 instead of Lithium) and some added firmware updates to enhance the camera settings and follow limitations.

[staffordlynn]

Dude you title got me worked up but then after watching it I was less worked up that said I am a DJI User and have an arsenal of FPV drones range ing from tiny whoops upto long range 10” drones doing 20k flights and to be honest this small drone has impressed me way more than any of my other drones it’s so versatile and the value for money is insane what other drone on the market offers so much it can be flown with absolutely no experience at all and can then be turned into a proper FPV drone using the Goggles 3 and remote 3 ok they are expensive but a lot of FPV People will have the DJI AVATA 2 and if so then for £169 you have a DJI product capable of flying proper Acro in the correct conditions and again that said I’d a good friend and fellow YouTuber Ben Toogood fly it the other day in extremely windy conditions and his comments were flip I don’t know why people are are being so hard on it he was more than impressed as am I what it can do for £169 is unreal and your review was very good and honest too

[markshirley]

Thanks, very good review as usual. I was going to buy a Neo. I just wanted a small drone that I could use with my phone, for a 2-3 second video clip of bars and cafes, as I shoot social media content.
I shoot 100% vertical, I'm still not sure if it's a waste of money or will do the job, I just need to get up to a certain height then push in for 2-3 seconds. I have owned a Mavic but sold it because it took to long to set up, and I was anxious when using it, so it stayed in my bag.

[hellohogo]

excellent perspective. i'll probably keep my air 3 for now. My hope is that they migrate some of the tracking features to the avata 2 at some point

[TripleU-E]

great review. After a few flights, I will return my NEO. When connected to the remote-control, I could pimp the videos at least a bit, but using the Neo just as a stand alone drone, the video footage is far too bad. you are the first, who mentioned lens flares! Maybe DJI will improve certain things in a new firmware, but I will not wait.

[RonaldBrown]

You make a lot of great points in this video. Thanks for an honest review of the Neo.

[striff]

Thans, appreciate honest review.
Saw another youtuber say the footage was great, yet he was looking washed out and no features of himself.
I still bought one because of the price, purely to follow me on trail runs. Well, that's the intention.

[ricarmig]

Nice test, liked a lot what you did. I watched on my phone but it seems that Neo’s 4K is worse than older models’ 2.7K!!! That is a disappointment…. If I had to guess, it seems a 1080p resized to 4K! I hope next firmware updates can fix that. I expect Mavic Air’s quality

[eXo]

Finally an honest review- Subscribed. Would be great if you could do some more testing around the limitations: for example even in manual control via the phone I have experienced the drone to auto-land in dim light (not low light) conditions because it apparently couldn’t see the floor. Some say this is also an issue when flying over water or drop-offs. I haven’t dared to test this myself, but I would be really interested in testing the automated shots over a drop-off.

[WillofDion]

All of the criticism are true, but my wife and i just uploads on tiktok and facebook.
we are pretty satisfied with the price to performance, plus the ai modes are good for non pro users like us.

[張德銘-xh]

Good job! Best review among all I’ve watched recently. Looking forward to your next video. Subscribed! 😄

[IanTed]

For the money and its intended use it’s fine, I have the remote which allows better tuning of the video quality. It’s an entry level to drones, if I use it regularly I’ll trade it in for a better sub 250g drone. I honestly think many of the issues will be fixed with a firmware update in the near future.