Hello fellow droners.
A couple of days ago I bought the newest, cheapest smartphone to try and get the
Tello flying.
(As mentioned in the previous posts on page 9 I could not get it to work with my old Samsung S4).
The phone I bought was a Samsung Galaxy A10 (SM-A105FN) running Android 9.0 Pie, and it works!
YES!
I´m using the
Tello-app and also a Xiaomi Mi 2 wifi-repeater running of a small powerbank.
Also been switching on flight-mode on the phone to maximize the performance when running the drone.
As always with a new phone there is a lot of unnecessary apps and features that should be deleted...
This is a link to the phone I bought if anyone is interested:
Samsung Galaxy A10 smartphone låter dig ta bra bilder med den bakre 13 Mpx kameran som har LED-blixt och tack vare 3400 mAh-batter
www.elgiganten.se
Have been flying around in my back yard and these are some of my impressions so far:
- Samsung Galaxy A10 works fine although it´s not on "the list".
- No frame skips yet but the movement is a bit twitchy (maybe my fault as newbie-pilot).
- Ok video shots if you just run it over the object in a straight line.
- Probably will get a hand controller with joysticks to be able to fly it better.
- Video quality 720x1080 30fps is ok for my purposes (filming old cars).
- Must be absolutely no wind if you want to get good footage.
- 3 batteries with the stand alone battery charger is very good to have (boost combo).
- Thank god for the propeller guards if you are a newbie...
- I will never use the silly built in features, flips etc...do kids use them?
- All video files get stored on the phone as mp4 and are easy to find and transfer to pc.
- Wish it would have got a better box more suited for transportation.
I was very impressed with the help and customer service at the store where I bought the phone.
If the A10 could not fly the drone I could swap to another phone model from the store.
Got to fly the drone in the store to see that everything was working, that was incredible!
Big thanks to Elgiganten located at Storheden Luleå!
//Daniel