Eanling by Holystone HS100G Drone with 1080p FHD Camera 5G FPV Live Video and GPS Return Home Function RC Quadcopter for Beginners Kids Adults with Follow Me, Altitude Hold, Intelligent Battery,long flight time

The media could not be loaded.  Positives- Easy pre-flight set-up. Turn it on. Move the controls to synch with the drone. Turn the drone round twice to calibrate the gyroscopes. Not quite turn-on-and-go, but not far off.- Very easy to fly. Single button take-off and landing, return to home button, controls responsive but not twitchy.Negatives- Fiddly to attach the screws keeping the rotors in space, they are seriously tiny.- Camera quality is a little disappointing - fine for instagram, but not for full screen or printing. Colours and details are a little muddy.- Try as I might, I couldn't get the first-person-view app to synchronise with the drone.Overall, given the low price (relative to DJI etc), I think this is a good starter drone.

The media could not be loaded.  🔩The hardest thing about this is holding the tiny screws, for attaching the propellers! I have amazing eye sight and it was a strain for even me.⭐️ I’m an “adult” and this was a fun toy to play with, initially.🇨🇳 This is a cheap Chinese drone — It’s NOT in the same league as DJI; it is an unreliable toy.### Slow Charging⚠️ 🔋 it takes 3 hours to charge for a battery that lasts for only up to 15 mins.### Controller Problems• The remote worked for me 3 times, but then it stopped holding a charge.• After charging the remote (the LED indicator turns green) the app says transmitter has low voltage, and the battery icon shows empty.• I only use the supplied charging cable as instructed.• I'm using the latest version of the app.### Aerial footage📹 The picture is shakey ; footage looks crap as there’s no optical image stabilisation or gimbal.⚠️ If you do ever use it to record video then remote unit beeps CONSTANTLY. It is SO ANNOYING. 😡 Unbearable. 🤦🏽‍♂️📷 Still photos are poor quality.### iPhone app 📱📱 The iOS (iPhone) app looks kind of dated and ugly.📱 It does NOT handle multitasking well. If you switch apps and come back you have to start the whole thing again from scratch. It's only mildly annoying at first; but after the 60th time I'm ready to murder someone 😡📷 It's extremely annoying when the live feed from the camera is upside down. (You can't just rotate your phone because then all the status messages along the top and bottom are now upside down.)### WiFi is constantly disconnecting.• You must connect your phone to the drone (an unsecured network called Holystone1234)• My phone keeps disconnecting and latching on to my home WiFi network.• Remember that every time you switch out of the app you have to start from scratch.### Return to home• This worked for the first 3 flights.• On the 4th flight, I lost contact with the drone and it did not return. It is now gone forever.### YouTube📺 If you want to search for other videos then search for "Holystone HS100G drone"TL;DR — It's fun at first, very promising. I seem to have a faulty controller. App design is infuriating.

Finally got some decent weather to be able to use this drone. I would class myself completely in the beginners category when it comes to drones so figured this would be the perfect drone for me. It's relatively simple to set up. There is some assembly required and it is fiddly when it comes to tiny screws you have to use but there isn't too much you have to put together thankfully. The free app needed to link the drone to your phone is easy to download and install and before too long you will be up and running. The controller feels a bit cheap and plasticky but I like that it can hold your phone in place during use. Using the drone is where disappointment starts to creep in however. Image stabilisation is poor or indeed non-existent and fidelity doesn't seem great. Then there's the incessant beeping when filming which gets on my nerves - no idea if it can be turned off. The drone is simple enough to operate the basics although the return home and follow me functions seem unreliable. Battery life is also remarkably poor at just 15 minutes at most - on some occasions noticeably less - and takes up to 3 hours to charge fully. Maybe that's the norm for drones but I hoped for more. Overall I'm disappointed with my first hands on experiences of drone flying using this product.

Well, initially, this looked to be a great drone. But, let me start by saying we have no experience at all of ‘droning’ (although I’ve been accused of droning several times lol). So, the box undone, contents taken out, we did wonder if this was going to be a bit complicated! However, we followed the instructions, we did it methodically and it turned out well enough.....after quite a long time. My son just wanted to get it made and get going, but it wasn’t that simple.So, we now have a fully made up drone, and we have a fully charged battery. One of the problems is the battery. It takes around 3hrs to fully charge, and you only get about 12-15 mins of play time. It would have been better to have 2 batteries, so that at least you could alternate them. Of course, the battery charger itself is scarily dangerous, and I wouldn’t leave it on any longer than fully charging....it gets hot.REALLY hot. I wouldn’t just walk off and leave this charging on it’s own, for fear of my whole house burning down.We couldn’t get any phone to work with it, however we live in a fairly remote place where we have trouble with everything remotely technical. We tried with 3 different ones with no luck. So, we used the drone camera. This is not of the highest quality.My daughter loves photography and thought this would be helpful,for her, but it wasn’t, due to the quality.My son (14) tired of it after two goes. And there it has sat since.I hate giving negative reviews, but I have to be honest and hopefully help someone else to make their decision about whether to purchase this or another one. I would certainly look around and compare before rushing into anything,