{"id":394070,"date":"2017-09-01T04:30:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/08\/31\/dji-new-mavic-pro-phantom-4-drones\/"},"modified":"2017-09-01T04:30:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T20:30:53","slug":"dji-debuts-new-mavic-pro-platinum-and-phantom-4-pro-obsidian-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/dji-debuts-new-mavic-pro-platinum-and-phantom-4-pro-obsidian-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"DJI Debuts New Mavic Pro Platinum and Phantom 4 Pro Obsidian Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the IFA trade show in Berlin, popular drone manufacturer DJI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dji.com\/newsroom\/news\/dji-to-showcase-two-new-drones-and-introduce-unique-sphere-mode-at-ifa-2017\">announced<\/a> two new drones, which are upgraded versions of its popular Mavic Pro and Phantom 4 drone lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dji.com\/mavic-pro-platinum\">Mavic Pro Platinum<\/a> is identical to the Mavic Pro, but it comes in a new platinum color and it features both an 11 percent gain in flight time and a 60 percent reduction in noise. With the flight time improvements, the Mavic Pro Platinum&#8217;s battery will last for 30 minutes before needing to be recharged.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/08\/mavicproplatinum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-585625\"\/><br \/>To enable the longer battery life and quieter operation, DJI is using new electronic speed controllers and new propellers, with the propellers compatible with existing Mavic Pro models.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dji.com\/phantom-4-pro\">Phantom 4 Pro Obsidian<\/a>, part of the Pro line designed for professionals, features a matte-gray shell color and a magnesium electroplated gimbal that has an anti-fingerprint coating.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/08\/phantom4obsidian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-585626\"\/><br \/>DJI also plans to introduce new firmware for its smallest drone, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dji.com\/spark\">the Spark<\/a>, introducing a panoramic photo with a fisheye lens effect that can be shared to social media sites. The new firmware will be available in the upcoming DJI Go 4 mobile app.<\/p>\n<p>DJI&#8217;s new Mavic Pro Platinum is available for pre-order immediately <a href=\"http:\/\/store.dji.com\/product\/mavic-pro-platinum\">from the DJI website<\/a>, and it will begin shipping in September. It&#8217;s priced at $1,099, a $100 premium over the standard Mavic Pro.<\/p>\n<p>The Phantom 4 Pro Obsidian will retail for $1,499. It will be available for purchase in September <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dji.com\/phantom-4-pro\">from the DJI website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the IFA trade show in Berlin, popular drone manufacturer DJI announced two new drones, which are upgraded versions of its popular Mavic Pro and Phantom 4 drone lineup. The Mavic Pro Platinum is identical to the Mavic Pro, but it comes in a new platinum color and it features both an 11 percent gain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":394071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-394070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}