ZEROTECH Dobby Pocket Selfie Drone

The ZEROTECH Dobby Pocket Selfie Drone is the newest entrant in the selfie drone race, created by Chinese UAV manufacturer ZeroTech. The drone makes taking selfies much easier as it features high portability, something that was missing from previous such drones and quadcopters.

The fragile and delicate parts like the propellers have always been a concern when travelling since they can break easily, but the Dobby comes with a unique foldable design that is compact and has foldable propellers, allowing it to fit in a bag or pocket! The drone is also super light at just 199 grams, letting it do away with FAA’s registration for quadcopters that weigh more than 250 grams.

 

 

The ZEROTECH Dobby Pocket Selfie Drone is equipped with a 970mAh LiPo battery that provides 9 minutes of flight time. It can be controlled using an Android or iOS smartphone or tablet, and has a range of up to 100 meters when flying indoors as well as outdoors.

It uses a 13 MP f/2.2 camera that has a FOV of 75 degrees. Apart from taking pictures, it can also record videos in 4K resolution at 30 fps or in 1080p at 30fps. It features image stabilization and can take burst shots of up to 15 pictures.

 

 

The ZEROTECH Dobby Pocket Selfie Drone is also capable of real-time image transmission (FPV) at a lower resolution to the smartphone or tablets screen. The drone works on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 SoC that has a 2.3GHz quad-core CPU with 2GB of RAM, Hexagon DSP, 16 GB of internal storage, 8000Hz samplong frequency and an Adreno 330 GPU.

These smartphone like specification takes the drone a rank above its competitors and provides capabilities like facial recognition, understand and execute voice based commands, auto follow, gesture based controls, 3 tap wake up and even lets it execute some flips! The drone also features GPS and GLONASS for precision flights and can do trajectory flights in mission control, along a predefined path and record at the same time. It is equipped with dual frequency Wi-Fi connection with good anti-interference performance.