Today, for a few dollars more, you can pick up the Mavic 2 Zoom, which will run circles around the EVO, and certainly your Mavic Pro. True 2x optical zoom, 30° up tilt of the camera for stellar spherical panoramas built into GO 4, true 25 minute flight time at 30mph, and a true 5 mile range without FPV dropping out after1.5 miles. While the EVO camera itself is far superior to the original Mavic Pro, the EVO gimbal, platform, and Explorer app all fall well short of the entire Mavic 2 platform and the GO 4 app on both iOS and Android, and Litchi. I have both aircraft, and wish I had returned the EVO when I still could have, instead of foolishly keeping it, while being lied to in writing by Autel engineers and managers about important bug fixes that were going to be included in the next update that were not, and are still missing, telling me that I should not have relied upon their representations ! Autel support hours have already been cut by 20% so you'll have to call them before 4pm, while DJI stays open until 5pm. The fragile antennas on the EVO will crack and break, requiring a 3 week warranty turnaround. Most owners have already dealt with this at least once.
@Ansia and I both have already had to send our EVO's in for this repair, and neither of us were happy about how it was handled. A year after release, there is still no dedicated iPad app, and the controller falls over backwards with even a phone in the holder, breaking the fragile antennas. Save yourself the aggravation, and return it while you still can, and pick up an Mavic 2 instead! There is a reason DJI has over one
million downloads from the Android Play Store, while Autel only has over one
thousand. Sadly, no one even makes a windsurfer for the EVO. Not enough owners to justify making one. The happy EVO owners just don't realize what they are missing in the way of massive DJI improvements that DJI owners like us have been spoiled by. An EVO is like going back 2 years within the current DJI platform. DJI continues to innovate. EVO hasn't progressed at all since release. The 900 Mhz band was stripped out before shipment and no 1” sensor was ever delivered. No one will be hacking the EVO. NoLimitDronez.com will unfetter any NFZ limitations on
any DJI aircraft for $50, giving you more control over any DJI aircraft than you ever dreamed possible. If you have buyers' remorse now, imagine the regret you will have after you can no longer return it and you need to send it in for 3 weeks because the antennas cracked!
