DJI Announces the Spark Drone (& It Makes the Tiny Mavic Pro Look Huge)

After DJI announced the Mavic Pro less than 6 months ago, people went nuts. How can a high-quality drone be so tiny?!

The drone was praised on nearly every outlet and YouTube channel and sold out everywhere instantly. And, it makes sense, it has awesome 4K footage, is super easy to fly, and easily folds up and fits in a backpack making it the smallest drone with such high quality. Or, at least it was…

Today at an event in NYC, DJI just announced their even smaller brother to the DJI Mavic Pro, the DJI Spark.

The drone is even smaller than the Mavic Pro weighing only 0.2 lbs compared to the Mavic Pro’s 1.6 lbs and is about half the diagonal size of the Mavic Pro, as well (170mm vs 330mm; excluding propellers). In other words, it’s freaking tiny.

Now, DJI is no dummy, this isn’t a smaller replacement to the Mavic Pro–they both fit perfectly in their own ranges.

The Mavic Pro is being geared towards the more professional uses (hence the “Pro”?) and the new Spark is more for the casual user and bringing drones to an even larger market.

Here’s a quick table to illustrate what I mean (cause who doesn’t love tables?):

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More specs on the Spark can be found on DJI’s site here.

And if you take some side by side footage, say from Casey Neistat’s video (footage starts around 4:35, but it’s an entertaining video like most of his content is, so maybe watch the entire thing):

You can tell in his video that the things I mentioned in the table are equaling a slightly lower quality image, but for half the price and seems to be working well from the phone controller? Pretty incredible, no?

I, for one, can’t wait to try one out, but what do you guys think? Let me know below and feel free to learn more about the other features of the drone (including selfie gestures, aren’t you excited?!). Thanks for reading, guys and don’t forget to follow me on social for more tech news updates.