DJI’s bundle deal on the amazing self-flying Neo drone is called the Fly More Combo. That’s accurate, because once you experience the fun of shooting 4K video with this tiny drone, you’ll be hooked. It could also be called the Fly Quickly Combo for how easy it is to take it from unboxing to flight, and now it can also be called the Fly Cheaply Combo, thanks to the record-low $239 price now live at Amazon.
At 135 grams, the Neo sits comfortably below the FAA’s 250-gram registration threshold, which means you do not need to register the drone, a Remote ID module, or airspace authorizations for recreational flying at most locations. For anyone who has bought a drone before and abandoned it after discovering the paperwork, that changes the plot significantly. Throw it in a jacket pocket, go somewhere interesting, and fly.
Fun Handful
The core control scheme is palm launch and landing. You press a button and the drone lifts from your hand without a launchpad or flat surface. From there, you can fly it with the included RC-N3 controller, through the DJI Fly app on your phone, or without a controller at all using voice commands. Subject Tracking uses the onboard computer vision to keep you in frame automatically. Eight QuickShots modes handle preset cinematic maneuvers like spirals, helix, and boomerang pulls without requiring you to choreograph the flight manually. The practical output is 4K UHD footage you can actually use, not shaky, poorly lit proof that a drone was present.
DJI specifies level-4 wind resistance on the Neo, which is enough to hold stable in a moderate breeze rather than fighting to stay in frame. The full-coverage propeller guards ship in the box, so flying close to trees or indoors is lower stakes than it would be on a bare-frame consumer drone. The 4K stabilization uses DJI’s standard electronic image stabilization pipeline, which holds up well at its native resolution.
Big-Time Bundle
The Fly More packaging is where the value concentrates. Three batteries extend your flying time well beyond a single 18-minute charge cycle. The two-way charging hub lets you rotate them efficiently rather than charging one at a time on a USB cable. Buying those batteries and the RC-N3 controller separately after the fact would easily close the gap between the Fly More price and what a standalone Neo costs.
At this new record-low Amazon price of $239, the DJI Neo is priced against drones that do substantially less and ship with one battery and no controller. If you have been circling this one for a while, the vast space between the regular price and what it costs today is wide enough to stop waiting.
