DJI’s back-to-back Osmo Pocket 3 price hikes take it from $519 to $799 in two months

We've called DJI's babe steadicam "almost everything I wanted my iPhone camera to be" and 1 of our favourite gadgets of 2023, but it's conscionable go a harder merchandise to recommend. In April, DJI softly hiked the US terms of the camera from $519 to $619. Now, DJI has hiked the terms again, officially listing the camera astatine $799 successful the US.

That's a $280 terms hike successful conscionable 2 months, a 54 percent increase, and the institution says it's not a mistake. "The terms you saw contiguous is the existent price," DJI spokesperson Daisy Kong tells The Verge. We're seeing that US retailers person already updated their listings.

DJI's "Creator Combo" has risen successful terms adjacent more. The kit, which adds loads of utile accessories including a modular extended artillery grip and 1 of the company's excellent Mic 2 wireless lav microphones, is present listed astatine $979, up from the archetypal $669 database terms it had maintained earlier April. (It softly roseate to $799 astir the opening of April.)

Is this the interaction of Trump's tariffs connected China? DJI is simply a Chinese company, aft all, but it says things aren't arsenic clear-cut arsenic that. Tariffs "are surely among the cardinal considerations," the institution tells The Verge by email, but …

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