DJI’s new Osmo Mobile 8 adds pet tracking and 360-degree camera pans

DJI’s caller smartphone stabilizer supports Apple’s DockKit truthful it tin way and travel subjects utilizing a assortment of iPhone camera apps. | Image: DJI

Just 8 months aft introducing the Osmo Mobile 7 Pro, DJI has already announced a follow-up. The new Osmo Mobile 8 doesn’t reimagine the present well-established plan of the company’s smartphone stabilizers. But it introduces caller functionality, including the quality to rotate and cookware a smartphone a afloat 360 degrees, and enactment for Apple’s DockKit, giving the stabilizer different method to way and travel subjects autonomously portion utilizing a wider assortment of camera apps.

Similar to other products that DJI announced this year, the institution hasn’t finalized plans for a US oregon planetary merchandise for the caller Osmo Mobile 8. “The Osmo Mobile 8 is presently lone disposable successful China, and we bash not person an estimated timeline for different markets astatine this time,” according to DJI spokesperson Daisy Kong. Pricing for the stabilizer determination is 898 Chinese Yuan, oregon astir $126.

The caller OM8 features the aforesaid Multifunctional Module arsenic the OM7, which attaches to the broadside of its present stronger and much unafraid magnetic telephone mount. The module includes an LED capable light, doubles arsenic a wireless receiver for DJI’s wireless microphones, and tin way and support subjects successful framework by controlling the stabilizer’s movements, nary substance what camera app you’re using. DJI has besides upgraded the module’s tracking capabilities to see dogs and cats.

Battery beingness is inactive rated astatine up to 10 hours, and the OM8 carries guardant its predecessor’s built-in tripod legs and 8.4-inch telescoping hold rod. DJI has besides added a counterweight equine truthful the gimbal remains balanced adjacent erstwhile you usage a smartphone with a ample lens oregon erstwhile different bulky accessories are attached.