DJI is skipping the US with its most advanced drone yet

The Mavic 4 Pro. | Image: DJI

Today, DJI is officially announcing the Mavic 4 Pro, which could beryllium the astir versatile drone it's ever made. It's the archetypal with a 360-degree rotating gimbal for footage that tilts, rolls, and offers existent vertical filming. It's the archetypal Mavic to connection 51 minutes of artillery life, tied with the aged Mini 3 and adjacent to the longest formation times DJI has achieved. It's the archetypal with a built-in 100-megapixel camera, which tin besides grounds 6K/60fps HDR, arsenic portion of its triple-camera array.

Another important distinction: it's the archetypal off-the-shelf DJI drone that won't motorboat successful the United States.

Today, it's going connected merchantability successful Canada, Mexico, and each different state wherever DJI sells drones, but the institution tells The Verge it has nary timeline connected bringing it to the US. DJI won't grant its constricted warranty if you transverse the borderline to acquisition 1 successful Canada oregon Mexico. It's not adjacent sending the drone to US-based exertion reviewers - we don't person one, and we're not definite erstwhile we'll get one.

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