Holy Stone HS440 Foldable FPV Drone with 1080P WiFi Camera for Adult Beginners and Kids; Voice/Gesture Control RC Quadcopter with Modular Battery…

The drone is not bad for the price. I like the easy starting of it. It doesn’t like to fly well in a stiff breeze at least in the opposite direction of the wind. Overall it worth the price. Only thing I didn’t like is when it gets farther away up or out from you you can’t see it. So I put fluorescent paint on the head arms so it will be more visible. So far so good will update later if I come across any other issues UPDATE: my 4 year old son accidentally spilled water on it. Which I didn’t know till after the fact. Any way it when straight up and over my woods ( 40 acres). We looked for two days. So I guess I’m SOL because the. Accidentally ins won’t cover accidental spills. They told me to contact holystone to see if there’s some way to find it. It doesn’t have gps and the battery is dead. I liked the drone cancelled the insurance.

Bought this drone on a prime day deal as a dumb purchase, but I’ve been thoroughly enjoying it since. I bought the drone not having flown one ever before but it’s easy to learn on, has high and low speeds and I honestly still prefer low for another flying.

The drone arrived quickly and is packaged in it’s case, which is great and has a really high quality zipper and pretty tough foam. Everything you get is inside with separate compartments for the drone, both batteries, and the controller. Also included in the top half in a zippered mesh enclosure are two USB charging cables for the batteries, a set of propellers, a small screwdriver and the instructions. You’ll need to provide your own AAA batteries for the remote, 3 of them, but otherwise the drone and all of it’s accessories and more can be stored in a nice case.

The camera is about what you’d expect in this price range, streams to your phone when you download the app and connect to the drones Wifi, the feed is choppy at times, but it does make some pretty cool movies for viewing on a cell phone, images are higher quality and I believe 1080p. Camera has a 90° vertical pivot that works smoothly and also allows for cool shots.

Actual flying is a ton of fun, the drone is fairly smooth with very little to no lag time between actions on the remote control and the drone, despite being light it does fight wind pretty well, but being as light as it is expect to work to keep it semi stable in any breeze. Drone has Headless mode, which I haven’t used much, high speed rotate, which I’ve never used on purpose, circle, which works well from my limited use, and auto takeoff and landing which works ok but you may not use it rather quickly. I’ve had the drone up about 80′ but always fought wind and living in the woods small mistakes mean crashes into trees. I have personally crashed this drone many, many times, typically catching a branch or leaves from a few feet off the ground, durability is amazing as the drone has largely survived without damage. I have had two large crashes, the first I was roughly 60′ up and the winds picked up and I lost sight of the drone, not wanting it to get lost in trees and my neighbors field I hit the emergency shut down, the drone hit a tree branch roughly 40-50′ up and then dropped straight down onto compacted gravel. This crash is the only damage visible as it came straight down on one of the propeller arms, crushing the plastic guard and causing the propeller adapter piece to fall out. However, once I picked it up and pushed the propeller back in place, I was able to continue flying with no major issues. Later, I was pushing the battery to it’s limit about 60′ up and it began auto-landing, a feature of this drone, unfortunately it was near a branch in a tall tree and crashed upside down on a branch. A few days later it fell out of the tree in the wind and caught in a bush 5′ off the ground, unharmed.

Lastly, the batteries take the quoted 3 hours with a generic USB power brick, which is not included. The flying time is, in my experience, about 22 minutes on average before it automatically lands. The one con I have is that the motors are brushed, and not only not as powerful/efficient as brushless, they also have a gears which is where my drone is failing. At this price point though I don’t think you can really count it against it.

Overall I’m super happy with the purchase and my only problem is now that I’m sufficient as a pilot I’ve crashed enough that I damaged the one gearbox and I’m not sure how long it has left. That damage is from me however and if you don’t fly as recklessly as I did while learning I think you’ll be impressed by the durability, ease of use, and fun offered by this little drone especially for the price.

Not as easy to fly as expected – I’m getting there tho 🙂