HS900 Drone with Camera for Adults, 3-Axis Gimbal, 8K Photo, 4K/30FPS Video, 20000Ft Transmission, AI Follow Me, Smart Return, QuickShots, Beginner-Friendly

This is a fun and productive drone at a great price! The video quality is fantastic! I have had a blast flying around and making videos! Super lightweight and no FAA registration required! The GPS helps keep the drone perfectly stable when hovering! The controls are easy to learn! Great beginner drone for anyone!! Only one thing that I would have loved to have additional on this drone - obstacle avoidance! I have “crashed” my drone twice (twigs on trees) and it has survived with only slight damage to the props. Good thing that it came with extra!

Just got my new HS900 Drone - WOW! First impressions: sturdy, good documentation. New app has informative videos, console fits phone flat in front and includes cables to hook phone to console. Console speaks and provides information during flight. The phone does not get in the way of your fingures being in that location. I also have a 175D, this is easier to calibrate and flies right from the first liftoff. Took my HS900 for an initial spin this afternoon. A few observations: - having the ability to connect your phone to the controller by a wire is great. No fooling around with WiFi. Screen information easy to read. -11mph winds and 22 mile gusts and no wind movement. Flew at 300 ft. For almost two miles. The first video is attached - very pleased with quality for a novice photographer. -Response to commands were immediate to turn drone and increase speed. -Gimbal is stable and responsive. Even with the wind - picture is stable. -Return to home performed as promised. - 25 minutes of flight and still had time left! - Ordering a second battery as soon as they come available. This is an exceptional drone. I’ve only flown a 175D and the difference Is dramatic. First flight 10 out of 10. This is the best Holy Stone has released. Competes well with some of the big boys.

I really wanted to like this drone. It flies nice, good videos, seemed like it would be fine. I flew it less than a day (3 flights) before it started wobbling in flight. The videos with the gimbals were fine, though. I recalibrated gimbal, gyro and compass. The next flight was the same. Recalibrated everything after removing and replacing the battery. Started the major wobbling, so I headed back to the landing spot. Checked the video and and the video was shaking so bad I couldn't watch it. I was still 1 day to be still in the return window, so I returned it. I really wish it would have been better.

This company has great customer service. This drone is very steady and easy to fly. You have to be careful because it doesn’t have collision avoidance but it has a great camera that is rock steady. Nice controller and software. Flight time is about 15 min.

Drone is easy to fly. Takes very good videos. My only issue is the download time. It's very slow. Much easier if you pop out the sd card and put it in a computer. But I would like the option to do it in the field. The drone is a good value for the price.

This is a preliminary review in order to share what I feel is important information for anyone considering the Holy Stone HS900. The controller and the craft operate very well. The controller functions are easily manipulated and the craft is very stable. The menu is also easy to use and the features are fun to use as well. Now for the real information, the battery can only be charged when installed in the craft and this means one at a time, Holy Stone does offer a docking station charger that holds three batteries, however the docking station only charges one battery at a time. I purchased the docking station charger at the time I purchased the drone as well as two additional batteries. The beginning of my review was short as a result of the following, after the initial charge was done on the batteries the night before my done was taken for its maiden voyage, when I was ready for the first flight the batteries were no longer at full charge. Rather than charging the batteries back to full capacity I proceeded to fly the craft as long as the three batteries would allow which was approx. 35 minutes. I was a great experience even though short what features I was able to use worked well. The next part of the story is the most concerning, after placing the discharged batteries in the docking station for charge I performed some tasks around the house and returned to find the first battery fully charged so I removed the charged battery and left the other two in the docking station to charge. I left to run some errands and came back two hours later to check the status of the charging batteries. I have always been apprehensive when it comes to charging lithium batteries so I never charge them in my home and rather set them up in my work shop that is detached from the house and garage. When I opened the door to the shop I was overcome with smoke that billowed out of the door, no actual fire but electrical fire smoke that was thick and nasty. I found the middle docking port with a melted down battery and the battery to the outside of that one was not able to be removed due the melt down of the docking station around the battery. The power adapter and the wall socket as well as the cable were not hot and not damaged. Thankfully there was no fire or my losses would have been rather sizable considering the size of my work shop and what I have inside of it. I contacted Holy Stone and explained the circumstances and sent them pictures. They offered to replace the damaged charger and two batteries but I will be waiting for up to three weeks for the replacement items to arrive. I will follow up this review once I have another opportunity to fly the craft again and try ALL of the features and functions, in the meantime I offer this information for anyone considering this model for themselves.

I purchased n January 25 looking for a high quality camera for scenery and inspection pictures. I returned the first one because of the glitchy video feed and very short battery life (10 min). I received the replacement and found the exact same. After 15-20 flights the battery is still around 10 mins. The major issue is I charge it fully (4 lights) and after it sits a few days the battery is down to 2 lights without using it. Video is still glitching with a random fly away.