what's good everybody thanks for checking out the Gadget Inspector channel
I appreciate you well today we're taking a look at a competitor to the popular
Tello drone it's the Xiaomi MITU to drone now in an
upcoming video I'm gonna do a head-to-head comparison of the Tello to
the MITU but in this video it's all about the MITU so we're gonna take a
detailed look at it it's coming in at about twenty dollars less than the Tello
so we're gonna do a close-up look at the MITU itself we're gonna do a flight
test we're going to check out the video and the photos and we're gonna do all of
that coming up right now
now let's take a look at everything you get with this Xiaomi MITU
in the box we're first greeted by the MITU shell without the props or the battery
installed it's pretty light without the battery and the body is made out of
plastic now in the front here it looks like there's two cameras but the 720p
camera is on the bottom and above that is likely an infrared sensor which is
for having battles with other MITU drones the product listing says this
quad has a total of five sensors here's another one likely infrared here's the
most obvious sensor for precision hovering it's more likely a ultrasonic
sensor than optical flow didn't look like there was a camera underneath there
and it has an internal barometer so it has altitude hold here's the power
button looks like another infrared sensor again for battles with other MITUs that button is to release the battery okay let's get in here and see
what else is up you get prop guards here's the battery that actually
completes the quad and gives it more of a solid feeling when installed I like
the design of this quad it's actually a 3.8 high volt 920 milliamp
hour battery and it snaps right into the top of the MITU it's supposed to get
you about ten minutes of flight time but as always will corroborate that during
the flight test okay the instructions are all in Mandarin or
Chinese so they won't be useful at all except for the QR code for the app but
I'll walk you through where to get the app so you can disregard this all
together you get one full set of props and two replacements not sure why they
didn't just include a full set of replacements y'all just be in cheap they
give us a micro USB cable for charging the battery and here's the charging port
on the MITU and that's everything in the box ok now I'm going to take you to
set up I'm gonna show you the app then I'm gonna get you outside for the flight
test I'm gonna try to do this as efficiently as possible ok so what we're
gonna do first we're going to install the battery very simple just make sure
you align the contacts here and you just pop it in until it clicks just like that
you're good to go all right now you can see I already have the props installed
but they make it super easy for you what they do see here how some of the props
two of the props are color-coded with orange and I believe these are these are
the counterclockwise props I believe these are the clockwise ones but that's
besides the point so here's how you're gonna install the
props you just match the orange prop with the orange motor then the two props
without the color go here okay prop guards go on super easy as well you just
basically just clip them on there clip them around here and they're good to go
make sure you slide them down though because I didn't initially and the prop
started to rub so make sure you slide it down until it fits right into this
little divot this little divot here just little notch make sure you slide when
you put it on slide it down so it's covering that okay that way your props
won't hit the guards okay let me add a real quick parenthesis here
now there's two LED indicator lights on the bottom of the meat too there's I'll
just power it on and let you see it
okay there's this orange indicator light and then this one this is a blue
indicator light when you plug it in to charge this blue light will come on
it'll start flashing now much like the Tello you don't get an indication of when
the battery is fully charged it just keeps flashing blue it'll just
keep flashing flashing now if I had to guess I think it takes about 30 to 45
minutes to fully charge the battery but don't hold me to that okay another thing
I want to point out is this one does not take a micro SD card so there's no micro
SD card slot on this one but from what I've seen from the video it doesn't
affect the quality of the video negatively at all so that's not a
problem with this particular drone the Tello
that's a different subject so video and photos save right to your phone oh and
the other thing to mention is the MITU actually has 4 gigabytes of internal
storage so that's kind of surprising for me so when you when you film and you
take pictures it's actually saving it to the drone and then when you go in the
app you have to download it to your phone from there but I'll show you that
in a moment okay now let's get you set up with the
app now there's two different apps there's a Chinese app and that's the one
that's going to come up if you scan the QR code in the instructions don't fool
with that this is it right here don't fool with that what you're gonna do just
do a search for MIDroneMini that's the app you want
search for it download it you're good to go
okay now go ahead and power on your MITU hold the power button down for a
couple seconds until you see that orange light come on it's powered on all right
now you can do this a couple different ways you can go right to the settings on
your phone or you can just open the MIDRONEMINI app which is what I'm gonna
do and just click on connect now and then click on connect it's actually
going to take you out to your settings anyway and notice here is giving you the
default password as well that 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 is giving it to
you right there so let's hit connect it's going to take us out here Wi-Fi
signal there it is let's hit it then we're going to go back to our app and we
should be connected Booya there it is okay I'm just gonna give you a real
quick overview of the app here I don't want to belabor anything but I do want
to be somewhat thorough for you guys okay so the icon you see with the H
that's your Auto takeoff okay that's your auto takeoff there the icon with
the hand and the arrow pointing up that's gonna be hand launched so you can
launch it right from your hand okay this little remote-control looking thing
right here your joystick that's to enter the battle mode and as you can see here
you can shoot and this is what you're going to be doing when you're when you
have two or more different MITUs that's what all the infrared sensors are
for this is your health bar up here so yeah I'm not sure how much I'll be using
that but it's there this icon right here that's kind of faded out
that's headless mode the next icon and let me show you this this is how you put
it into g-sensor mode and this is going to allow you to use the accelerometer in
your phone to control the drone so all you'll have to do is just tilt your
phone to the left to the right forward and back and the quiet will make
corresponding movements and I believe you just have to hold down the right
joystick for that to work while you do it
okay this is your battery indicator as you can see the battery's low here this
icon right here when you push that it's going to bring you bring up options for
you to do flips for front flips backward flips and to the sides
obviously down here you got your photo and video buttons and then there's your
settings now here's here's one of the great things about this app
most of us don't like to fly quad copters with virtual sticks most of us
prefer physical sticks I definitely do but when you have an app like this that
no matter where you place your thumbs that's where the controls are gonna be
I prefer that much more over static sticks where you have to make sure you
put your thumbs in the right perfect place that's when you run into problems
in my humble opinion okay now you can also pair the MITU with a Bluetooth
controller and I actually have one maybe I'll do that in a separate video if any
of you guys aren't interested I'll go ahead and do that okay it's telling me
low battery okay so let's keep it moving all right let's go into the settings
real quick now most of this stuff is self-explanatory so I won't spend a
whole lot of time in here but one thing I want to point out is that you can't
change the resolution of the video and the pictures now when you go from 720 to
480 in the video you're actually increasing the resolution of the photos
now I haven't noticed much of the difference what happens is when you go
from one to the other the image is going to crop okay so let me show you that so
you can see here is more of a sixteen by nine when you go to the 640 by 480
and there by going to 1200 in terms of the resolution 1600 by 1200 for the
photo photos you're going to have a cropped image now okay I'm gonna take a
look at all that okay you do your upgrades here
height restriction let me show you this so you can set a height restriction here
all the way up to 25 meters and I actually like this especially this is
good for beginners you don't want to fly it too high and then the wind catches it
and blows it away that happens all I know that happens a lot that's that's the
culprit the reason why you have flyaways a lot of times is flying the quad too
high it either loses connection or does not have the power to fight the wind and
bye-bye birdie so this is good 25 meters is plenty I think that's even too high
for this type of quad okay this is how you reset the gyros
your horizontal calibration I'm sorry guys I'm trying to talk fast
joysticks sensitivity this is basically your rates you've got three rates
low medium high or low moderate high and that's basically it
alright okay and by the way the advertised control distance for the MITU
is 50 meters and I think for small quads like this I don't see much reason to fly
much further than that some guys do so you know to each his own you know some
guys will get Wi-Fi repeaters and stuff like that to extend the range and stuff
and you you certainly can do that alright man that's enough talking let's
get outside and see what this thing can do alright okay everybody let's get
right into it we've got the Xiaomi MITU ready to go we're connected to the
app I'm gonna have the flight clock up in the upper left hand corner as I
always do one thing I'm going to go in here and do right away is I'm going to
change the okay we're at 720p that's what we want okay we're gonna go back
out and I am going to start the video camera and we're gonna do a normal
takeoff and the Xiaomi MITU is in the air now I'm gonna try to move quickly
there's a few things that we're going to want to test right away and that
stability because we've got that sensor on the bottom now I believe it's more of
an ultrasonic sensor rather than a camera so I don't think it's a vision
positioning system as much as sound I'm not certain of that but you can see how
it moves when it detects something underneath it such as my hand alright
stability is really good alright let's just fly it out here and the first thing
I noticed about the MITU no drop frames in the video zero dropped frames so
that's really good alright so we've got that height limitation there but check
it out there's no wind here but even in no wind conditions most altitude hold
quads are going to fluctuate in their position and this is staying put almost
like it has GPS very similar to the Tello okay let's bring it down let's see if I
can get myself maybe I should come out to the sunlight there I am alright I'm
going to go ahead and stop the video camera now oh I'm gonna stop the video
camera I'm gonna snap off some pictures there's one
there's two let's do another one there's three let's come in a little closer now
flight time is only supposed to be about 10 minutes so I'm gonna try to move as
quickly as possible something else I want to do here is let's go back into
the settings and let's see what the difference in the picture quality will
be by switching that and now you see it's more cropped in which is two would
be it which is to be expected based on the resolution but what I'm curious
about is the quality is there much of a difference in the quality right okay I'm
gonna change it back so we have 720p video and I'm gonna start that video
once again okay now what do we want to look at let's go ahead and see how it
flips pretty good flips and you see it's having a little trouble there
recognizing its position this is just over grass here let's try some other
flips but I would say that stability is darn good it's rivaling the Tello
in my opinion here okay does flips really well slides around really well
now I'm just in the intermediate rate so that's the pitch you're gonna get
hopefully you can see this and make sure it's close enough
really good flyer very stable seems to hold its position really well with the
altitude hold
and let's stop it and see what happens oh yeah that's good I like it it settles
in really nicely once you let off those sticks okay what else do we have to test
here let's go ahead and check out headless mode which i think is really
cool for this type of quad because it's a selfie quad and what this is going to
allow you to do is not worry about the direction that the quad is facing and
actually I armed that the wrong way you want to arm it in the same direction
that you launched and I think I was headed this way so I'm gonna turn on
headless mode now I can turn the quad to face me and now no matter what I do the
controls will always be as though the quad was facing away from me so you
see how I'm I'm just flying left I'm flying right forward back
although that's that's off a little bit I want to push forward he goes back no
that's right I'm an idiot confusing myself okay boy
we're almost out of gas already uh okay let's stop the video to make sure we
have it come out of headless mode let's turn it around
geez you guys that was fast okay let me show you the gyro control now that
you're ready now you got a hold down the right stick there okay I don't think
it's gonna let me do it because the battery's low maybe not sure well anyhow
let's see if we can snap off some more pictures here
there's one
very stable very stable
ok
all right let's bring it back we're getting ready to run out of battery here
just gonna fly it around not gonna do much in terms of range here as you can't
can see the location I'm in it's just a little park here but I don't know that
was about 15-20 meters or so and reception is really good
connection to the quad is really good
I like it man and we'll go back and look at the video quality and the photo
quality which I did kind of take a look at before wasn't blown away by either
and if I were doing a comparison to the Tello which I am going to do as I
mentioned in the opening of the video I'd say the the Xiaomi MITU does video
better but the Tello does photos better all right we still got some video I'm
sorry some power nope we're landing all right and is it gonna shut off nope it
finally shut off okay now we didn't get to do an auto land I wonder if I can
take it off once more see if we can do that auto land now you see that
notation it says the gyro is fluctuating too much so it it it knows when it's
being jostled around let's see you know if I don't even have the option to auto
take off okay so I think we're done all right
what I'm gonna do I'm gonna charge the battery up okay and I'm gonna take it up
once more and we'll just do an auto land maybe I'll do some more pictures and
video I don't want the video to be super long but I do want to make sure we took
a look at everything that we could I'm also going to kick it up to the
highest great to see how it flies around and performs in the highest rate and
then we'll go ahead and wrap things up I'll give you my final thoughts and
we'll call it a review all right thanks for sticking with me you guys
and we are in the air okay I was throwing it too hard you have to be very
gentle with it apparently okay I like it I like the MITU do you like it you too?
sorry it moves man definitely moves
I wouldn't call this a performance quad but as you can see it moves when you
want it to now let's let off the sticks and it does pretty much stop
very similar to the what the Tello does
very very good technology in this quad as well try it again a little closer see
how it stopped let's try it again seem to get a little wacky there with
the barometer I think and stop it goes a little bit but then it it stops and it
holds its position really cool alright while we got a little more battery I'm
gonna take it up just a little bit in altitude not too high I don't think
that's necessary but I'll give it a little altitude now this does have a max
height limit I think I set it to about 25 meters and as you can see it's
jostling around it's trying to hold his position but I think it's passed its
limit I'm not sure how far that sensor works but it's definitely moving around
it seems to settle in a little bit now no I'm gonna bring it on down so I
wouldn't recommend taking it up very high seems to be doing ok out about
there
hopefully you can still see it
doing well up at about that height they're letting off and you can see it's
it's moving around a little bit so it's only going to have effectiveness up to a
certain level which is to be expected right all right I'm gonna stop that
video and let's go ahead and do an auto land let's see if I can still flip nope
can't flip because the battery's low let's do a hand landing from way up
there coming down so what do I really think well I like it for what it is what
is it it's a toy grade selfie drone with very good precision hovering that's what
makes it easy to fly and although it doesn't come with the controller it is
quite convenient to just pull out your phone and get in the air and you can set
up for selfies and group photos and videos without worrying about keeping
the drone in one spot now the video and photos are just met but I don't think
you'll find much better in comparable selfie drones except for the Tello
remember a head-to-head comparison video is coming soon on that now personally I
don't think it makes a lot of sense to compare a selfie drone to non selfie
drones you know I don't think you should compare this or the Tello to something
with GPS for example but if you compare all selfie drones with selfie drones
apples to apples I think this one is pretty decent actually a lot better than
most now I give the MITU the edge when it comes to the video mainly
because it doesn't skip frames like the Tello but the Tello produces much better
quality photos by far now flight time is kind of short at 7 to 8 minutes but
extra batteries aren't super expensive well that's it for this one I appreciate
you for watching like share and subscribe if you haven't already and
until we meet again be good to somebody and be good to yourself I'll see y'all
in the next one later
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