Gadgetory

I'm here at the Metreon in San Francisco and this is the bebop to the follow-up to parrots popular first bebop the new bebop is faster flies longer and offers some improvements in the connectivity which was one of the chief complaints in the Verge's review of the original version curiously there weren't major improvements to the camera it's still a 14 megapixel fisheye lens that tops out at 1080p resolution notably they didn't jump up to 4k video but it's harder to say how much better the connectivity really is since we only had a few minutes to try it indoors today paired emphasizes that it's easy to use with controls packed into an app for iOS or Android devices takeoff and landing just requires the press of a button but navigating itself is a little tricky until I get the hang of it parrot emphasized that they eliminated weight and moving parts by leaning on software to do the hard work notably including image stabilization some filmmakers however would question the suggestion that software can achieve the same smooth footage effects as a gimbal which is what competing drones like the DJI phantom series rely on the camera also remains on the nose of the drone a potentially dangerous placement for an aircraft that regularly crashes into walls and trees it's going to be available on December 14th starting at five hundred $49.99 or seven hundred $99.99 with a flight controller that extends its range but until reviewers get more flight time it's hard to say just how much better the new bebop really is