Contixo F21 Pro Drone with Dual Camera, 30 Min Flight Time With 2 Batteries, 4.3" Screen Remote, Obstacle Avoidance, Optical Flow Hover, 2.4GHz FPV, Altitude Hold, 3D Flip Drones For Adult Teenager

These days I only write reviews for products that I really like or really hate. Thankfully this review is about really, really liking the F22 drone. I purchased it mainly for the follow me function while mountain biking as well as an interesting selfie camera. I did not expect too much because of the price point (which is about 1/3 the cost of the nearest competitor with the same features) but figured that if it did half of what it says it can do I would be happy. So far I have tested all of the capabilities except waypoint navigation and I was very impressed, here is a breakdown:GPS GUIDENCE: Getting the drone connected to your phone through wifi and then connecting to satellites is a bit cumbersome but after a few times it became fairly quick and easy. Usually takes me about 2-3 minutes for the phone wifi to connect and then another minute for satellites to connect. Once that is accomplished (FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS) you are ready to fly. The drone will idle with props turning until you take off then it will hold a steady position until you tell it to do something else.ORBIT: I found this mode to be the most useful and most fun. Setting the distance and altitude takes about 5 seconds and the drone will fly in a circle (however large you set it) while keeping the camera trained on the center. Super cool for selfies or group photos and videos.FOLLOW ME: Mixed results. It will follow you but from what I can tell the drone needs to be fairly high in the air and wind will impact how well it keeps the camera trained on you. I was hoping to keep the drone close to me (about 20 feet away and 10 feet high) but it had trouble following me accurately. I am guessing that when it is higher it is much easier to follow an object because there is less flight adjustmentTRACKING: This is the second most useful mode. It works wonderfully. After you have the drone in the air you can draw a square around the object you want to track and the drone will stay in a stationary position while keeping the camera pointed at whatever you drew a square around. Super cool and works beautifully.HEADLESS: If you want to fly the drone around and you are like me and have a nasty habit of crashing into things you want to enable the one touch Headless mode. That will make the drone go in whatever direction you move the joystick REGARDLESS OF WHICH WAY THE DRONE IS POINTING. It’s the only way to fly and just have fun.TAKE OFF / LANDING: This feature works perfectly although landing takes quite a while to get the drone on the ground.RETURN TO HOME: This enables the drone to automatically return to the place from which it took off. Works great to get the drone back to the general area but it takes forever for it to actually land. I usually hit the return button, let it get close then bring it down manually and hover it so that I can grab it and then hit the emergency stop and all props stop.CAMERA: I was impressed with the picture and video quality, again maybe because I wasn’t expecting much. It is a fisheye lens and is on a gimbal that you can move remotely up and down. You also get a real-time image of what the drone sees on your phone, which is really nice for framing shots.CAUTIONARY NOTE: Do not land or take off on sand. The sand gets into the motors instantly and will destroy them. Also be very careful not to crash the drone on its camera, which is very easy to scratch or break.Picture / Video: Super impressed with the video quality but then again I wasn’t expecting much. It will take pictures and video directly to your phone, which is awesome. At the same time it will save the same pictures and videos on to a micro SD card. I found that the media recorded directly to the SD card is of much higher quality than the same media recorded to the phone.GEEKS ONLY: The pictures recorded to the phone and SD card are jpg files and the SD card versions are about twice the size as the phone versions. The video however is saved on the phone as an mp4 file while on the SD card they are avi files. Again the files on the SD card are bigger and of higher quality.Conclusion: This is a relatively inexpensive drone that has all the capabilities of more expensive models and is a great way to get into drone photography and flight. After some familiarization it is fairly easy to use and the advanced features of the drone are also easy to initiate after you have played with it for a while. This drone delivered on every promise made and I could not be happier with this purchase.UPDATE: I finally figured out how to activate the follow me mode (or at least I think I did). You must first activate the tracking mode (which keeps the camera pointed at you ), THEN activate the follow me mode. I am guessing both need to be active so the tracking points the camera while the follow me mode follows the controller.

The media could not be loaded. Got this on a whim, have wanted a little more advanced quad that the ones we have currently. We currently have a few minis, a Syma X5C-1, and a UDI U818A but those are more toys than real quads. Haven't used them in a while because they need near perfect flying conditions outside.While the F22 may also be considered a toy it is a step up from the others we have. We were looking for one that didn't need "perfect" weather to fly in.First try using it was not the best, but we charged the battery back up and my younger son took it for another try.He had much better success the second go. Today was use #3, and we have some video/pics to share.Here is our review after a third use:Initial use - 3 stars - initially it was a little cumbersome to setup. Instructions on the phone are a little hard to follow as you're setting it up. There is the instruction booklet with it but that is also not the clearest. It gets a little better with use, our third try was definitely a good outing.Controls/controller - 4 stars - The controller is a little small but it handles the job of allowing control of the quad pretty nicely. However, I have an iPhone 8 with an Otterbox case and I could not put my phone in the holder. My son's phone (an SE?) fits well and I have an older 6 with no case that fits ok-ish. Just something to think about. After a few minutes of use my son had it down pretty well.Flying - 5 stars - this thing flies well. It turns nicely, flies in a straight line if you calibrate it properly. It has pretty good speed.Extra features - 5 stars - I know these may be normal on most quads now but the extra features on the F-22 are worth 5 stars. The flight limits, which limit altitude, distance from controller, etc. are great. The video I attached (unfortunately I can only attach one) shows the quad hitting the "wall" before we figured that setting out. Where is "backs up" is where it hit the range limit and actually came back to where we were. We have lost quads before because of it flying out of range so this is a great feature for us. Had a little trouble getting the follow me to work properly but that may have been our fault so I can't mark off for that yet. The routing feature was pretty cool, seemed to follow the route we laid out although it was not a complicated one.Camera - 3 stars - the camera takes a decent pic/video but as you can see it is not the greatest. Good enough for us but it does get pixelated at times. Maybe it is how we are recording but overall I have to give the camera feature just a 3.Battery - 4 stars - definitely gets about 15 minutes worth of use, would have liked to have seen just a little more time. Going to get an extra battery to give us a half hour total time.So, let's add it up - 3+4+5+5+3+4=24/6 categories =Overall - 4 stars - a fun little quad, a solid 4 star rating for it.I would recommend buying it (especially if you can get it for $125 or less like we did). An extra battery seems to be essential as the flight time is about 15 minutes so 2 would give you 30 mins total. You don't want to push it more than that, however, these little motors on these things can't handle extended periods of time running full bore. I may get another one so we can try racing them.

When u buy this drone oh yea the sellers quote if that's what u call it is great and and when u break open package it's a very nice looking drone and it runs and starts great and contixo offers a 1 yr limited replacement warrenty but if the drone messes up in any kinda way period it doesn't matter if u done it or it was there product which in my situation it was there product contixo will not answer any of it emails they answered mine but I had to email them twice to get a response and they made this promise and that promise but when it was time to withhold that promise they lie and then when u try and find out why u haven't received the return label a week after they promise u one they will not respond to u I have emailed them 5 times about the label over 3 weeks and still not one response back they are a very disrespectful company and they are not about there customers at all they dnt stand by there warrenties or promises they are a bunch of crooks and my review and complaint ain't the first one every review they have are bad they have not one good review if u want more info on this company pull up there reviews on bbb and it will give u all the info u need to not buy this product or any other product they sale they deff should not have a business and Amazon should honestly stop selling or supporting there product on there site