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Drones have come a long way since I first started talking about them back at NCIX.

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You know, there's big ones now. You need the certification. You need to go train and go to school for five years

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just to fly them near an airport. You're not supposed to fly them.

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But Hover sponsored this video to prove to all of you

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that it doesn't have to be that complicated. This is the Hover Camera X1.

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It is a very light drone. It's 125 grams, which means that it's under

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the 250 gram threshold that requires you

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in the U.S. and Canada to get certification,

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to fly a drone. Do I need to look at the quick start guide? No, I don't.

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It's supposed to be easy to use. I don't need to read the quick start guide, but I probably should look at at least this card.

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It seems useful. Yeah, this is, I'm excited about this one.

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You're just supposed to hold it horizontally in the palm of your hand.

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And then I believe that you press the button and there's a three second take off.

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And that's gonna be exciting. I wanna see that. Disclaimer and safety instructions.

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I'll have my people read that. Okay, what else we got? Oh, we got a little box here with some treats.

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Ooh, ooh, a nice bag. There's nothing in the bag,

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because I think that's to hold the actual drone itself.

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A charging cable? USB-C to USB-A?

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Okay, that's everything in the box.

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Let's take a look at the drone itself. Man, it is a very small boy, hey?

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There have been of course many small drones over the years,

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but this is interesting to see this foldable design.

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And presumably it fits in that bag I looked at earlier.

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Let's take a look at what is on the outside. So on the top here, we've got the power and take off button.

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There's the mode button, which switches modes.

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I'm not sure what the modes are right now, but I know that there are five flight paths

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that you can switch between on the fly.

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And then there are five LED indicators surrounding that,

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which I guess will give you a visual representation of what mode you're in when you're not using the app.

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On this side, we have what looks like the USB-C charging port.

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On the other side, not much, but I did also not mention this is the battery here,

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which is directly replaceable. We have the charging hub here with an extra battery,

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and oh, and there's two slots for that. And each one of these batteries

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will give you 11 minutes of flight time. Thankfully, you got two batteries here.

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You can swap them out and keep going for another 11 minutes.

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And the fun times keep on flying. I just want to do this all day.

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This is just fun. It looks like it's clapping for me.

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Good job, Riley. We've got the gimbal camera here with some,

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ooh, some jiggly stabilizing mechanisms there.

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It can shoot 2.7K at 30 FPS or 1080p at 60

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or 1080p at HDR. So we'll take a look at what that looks like.

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And on the bottom, we've got our downward-facing sensor array.

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This drone actually has a time-of-flight laser positioning

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system here, as well as VIO technology,

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which means that it uses a camera and deep learning technology to see where it's going,

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just with a visual system, instead of relying on a bunch of sensors and GPS.

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So that's interesting. We'll see how well that plays out.

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Okay, let's pair it with the app, and then take it outside.

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Let's have some fun. Whoa, we've picked up a signal on the radar,

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on the sonar, captain. Should I hail them?

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Press and hold the power button on the hover until the status indicator turns solid green.

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Ooh, I like this display. Ooh, oh! Current mode, hover.

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Done, it's connected. Before starting your flight,

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pick up hover and follow me. Please complete eight tasks.

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Are you ready? Please confirm that the status light turns green.

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Hover is ready to fly. Oh, I didn't see this warning the first time.

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Do not fly in the following environments. Low light situation.

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The ground texture is not clear.

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And it has a picture of like a smooth floor. So if your floors are too clean,

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water surface, don't fly it over water,

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and large height variants. And it shows buildings.

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Please hold hover in your palm horizontally and align the camera to your face.

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Hi. Use the other hand to short press the power button.

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I'm holding my phone with the other hand. Short press, not long press.

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Continue, snapshot.

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Oh, I didn't, okay. I didn't think it was gonna go right away.

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The red light indicates filming is in progress. I didn't give you permission, but okay.

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Strike a pose. Once you've been still for three seconds, hover will take a photo of you.

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Did you take the photo? Oh, okay, it did. After shooting, place your palm directly under the hover

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and wait for the hover to land.

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It feels safe with me. I've already bonded.

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After the propeller shut off, the flight is officially completed,

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and we can all go home. But now there's also, now there's these other icons in the app.

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Sound recording, link account, hover's album. Oh, I can see the picture.

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Got it, okay. Here's the, oh wow, it took a bunch of,

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it took a bunch of photos. So that was cool. But now I wanna see what it's capable of.

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All right, now I understand. There are six icons on the top

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because there are five of those are the flight paths

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that you can switch between. And then the sixth one is custom.

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I guess you can make a custom one, which I'm not going to do.

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You can also change modes in the app as well. I mean, it says here, hover, zoom out, follow, orbit,

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bird's eye. Oh, and then there's extra ones.

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But those are, there's the basic ones, and then there's the skilled ones.

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Snapshot, dolly track, manual control.

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The cartoon character in this app is hilarious.

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What is it? He's got his legs up behind his head.

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What? So let's go through the flight modes then.

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Let's start with whatever this one is, hover.

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Oh, it tells you what, zoom out, follow, follow, orbit,

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bird's eye. Bird's eye.

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Yeah, so it follows me around my mansion,

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but it doesn't follow, it'll stay there because it knows its place.

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And then if you just stick your hand out, it just comes right down. Man, I feel like I've known this little guy for years.

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Okay, let's switch to zoom out.

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Whoa. Now, is it recording right now?

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Come back to me.

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There's nothing for you out there in the world. You belong with me.

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It'll always come back. The prodigal drone, okay.

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Oh, okay, and then if you wanna actually watch the video, you have to download it.

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That's interesting. It would be really nice if the process to see the file

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that you just, the video that you just recorded, was a bit quicker.

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Right now it's downloading from the drone onto the phone.

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It has to download and process before you can just watch it. So that could be a bit quicker.

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It was only a five second video. Okay, so there are settings in the app

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for changing like how long it's gonna zoom out

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and come back or how long it's gonna record for. All right, let's try the next mode, follow.

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Just like we practiced little buddy, you can do it.

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Come on, don't look at them this way.

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Yes, yes.

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You're doing great. You're doing it, Peter.

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I've called him Peter. Marcus, have you ever seen such an amazing thing in your life?

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Yeah, now it's yours. He's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's

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he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's

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he's on you now. Okay, just go, just go.

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You're free now.

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Go. Don't you get it?

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I can't stay with me. Go. Okay, we're in orbit now.

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Let's go over here. I may be orbit me.

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It listened.

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Okay, now what if, what if I don't go get it?

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It's coming. It's like, daddy, daddy, pick me up.

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What if I don't? What's it going to do? Oh, it just, it just has like a breakdown.

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It's just like, I don't know what to do.

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I see. That was like, I felt cruel there making it hover.

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The last one of the five modes.

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Bird eye. Okay, what do you, I don't know what you're going to do.

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This is going to be a surprise.

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Wait. No, I'm not ready.

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Oh, okay. Wow.

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It's going. Is it going to stop and come back?

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Oh, it's already, it's already coming back.

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I got to say, there's a part of me that's like, ah, it's a bit gimmicky, but there's a,

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maybe a bigger part that's like, this is really cool.

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It's like, it's cool how intuitive it is. I just held my hand out and it's just like, yes, father.

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And I'm like, I already have a son. Let's just calm down. Oh, okay.

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So you can set it to record for 30 seconds or 60 seconds

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or five minutes or just continue, which I guess means that like,

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keep recording until I tell you to shut up. You should be able to tell that the audio

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is actually coming from the phone and not the drone.

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The phone and not the drone. And that's because if the microphone was on the drone,

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you wouldn't, you'd just hear a buzz.

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So look at it. Oh, it's far away. Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

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Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you see what I'm doing?

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If you switch to vertical video mode, you're limited to 1080p 30 FPS,

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but the option is there if you like want to post a social or something, I guess.

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Oh, you think you can follow me? We'll have to see.

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Come on. No.

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

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You've done well. Okay, we're back inside.

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I want to take a look at some of this footage because you know, that was very exciting out there.

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It was a challenging situation as David points out with the lighting, you know, it was basically

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things were blown out with the sun in the background and there was harsh shadows,

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but it seems to be doing a really good job. I mean, like obviously the sky is blown out,

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but the color and the detail are pretty impressive

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for, you know, a tiny little drone camera.

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It did a really fun like edit, adding music

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and taking screenshots during the video

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so I can always forever remember the setup process

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for the drone. I'm gonna put that right beside my kids' photos.

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This is interesting. For some of the modes, I couldn't tell this while I was actually using the drone,

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but now I can see it records for like the first bit

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of the motion and then it stops and then records again

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as it comes back. It did that for the bird's eye mode

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and for the zoom out mode. So, I mean, you might be able to change that in settings,

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because they did have some settings for like changing specific settings of different modes.

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I gotta say, as I'm watching these, I'm reminded of the time when we were just outside

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two seconds ago and it was my impression

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of this drone overall, pretty good. Like there's not a ton that I have to complain about here

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other than they, you know, oh, I wanna see the things that I just recorded.

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I have to download them off the drone and have them downloaded and processed

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and then they're available to watch. But like, you wouldn't expect a small drone like this

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to have the type of Wi-Fi equipment that you could like stream high quality video

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to your phone directly from it. So, you know, I kind of forgive that

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because the rest of the experience using it was, I didn't have, I mean, I didn't have any complaints.

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When I was done with it, I just put my hand out and it landed immediately.

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So, if the Hover Camera X1 is something you're interested in,

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they actually have a combo right now that's on sale. You get the drone and the battery charger

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and an extra battery for 445, but it's on sale for 399.

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So, if you're interested in that, check the link in the description and thanks to Hover for sponsoring this video.

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Hey, thanks for watching. That was a ShortCircuit.

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Appreciate you staying to the end so we can have this little moment.

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