Holy Stone HS210 Kids Mini Drone for Beginners Adults, Indoor Outdoor RC Toy Quadcopter Plane for Boys Girls with Auto Hover, 3D Flip, 3 Batteries & Headless Mode, Great Toddler Gift, Red

Stable / Easy to Control / Has survived a 3 year old for 5 days so far
We’ve been really really pleased with this – our first drone purchase. Our 3 year old wanted a drone for Christmas and I was reluctant to buy something as simple as one of those single prop toys. This has worked a treat. It has a start up / pairing routine which he mastered in about 2 minutes – now he pairs the thing even if it doesn’t need it. Flight is stable enough that there is (or at least there will be when his excitement has died down) enough time to explain controls and direction to him. For now he’s happy doing take offs landings and some random flights around the lounge. It’;s light enough that you’d be very unlucky for this to damage anything in the house.The device is light / flexi plastic. It probably wouldn’t survive an adult stepping on it. However – I don’t think thats unusual – weight obviously being important if something is going to fly!?There are three batteries, and to USB chargers. Might not seem important, but this is a godsend. It means the little one starts understanding about battery power and electricity (“Whats a battery Dad?”) and it means it’s easy to introduce a break if the parents get fed up. The batteries charge quickly enough to allow the device to be used 2 or three times a day, exhausting all three batteries. i.e. 9+ flightsMost significant is how stable this thing is in the air – I’ve used much more expensive drones and haven’t been able to control them at all – this really isn’t like that. Auto take off, raise altitude – and it hovers.The three speeds are fun – high speed is pretty quick for a small bungalow – and it wears the batteries more quickly.I haven’t tried it yet, but I think high speed would be completely fine outside if there’s little to no wind. In a 4 metres room it’s fast enough to test your reactions.The top two buttons on the remote (mario kart hop/drift buttons?) kill the motors if pressed simultaneously. Useful when it’s buzzing round the christmas tree or when it’s upside down on the floor.It has a calibration function too – which is really good. Put it on flat surface, both levers down and to the left – and that resets levels and makes flight even more stable. Don’t confuse it being stable with it being not very interesting to fly – there’s plenty to first time fliers occupied and the faster speeds will challenge someone are experienced indoors I don’t doubt.Super pleased – and of course I now want an outside drone with a camera and have been checking the reviews. I did research before buying this one, but it keeps coming up in the recommendations in the reviews I’m reading.First drone purchase? I’d recommend without hesitation.

Really fun little drone
First off, this drone is tiny but seems well built and it survived a few knocks into the wall and furniture with no effect at all. It does come with a few spare bits and pieces but even after my 6 year old has bounced it around the room a few times, I haven’t had to replace anything yet.To give a sense of scale, my attached picture shows it alongside all the components it comes in the box with compared to an A4 sheet of paper. It comes with 3 batteries and 2 chargers so you can have one battery in and the other two on charge if needed. On the lowest speed setting, I was getting about 8 or 9 minutes of flight time with each battery which doesn’t sound much but it only to takes a couple of seconds to switch the battery over so really you get nearly half an hour when using all three.It has a green light at the front and a red light at the back so you always know which way is “forward” which is really handy, the lights also blink to let you know when the battery is running low so you can bring it back and the one key landing makes it really simple.Really quick and easy to get it into the air, you do need to pair the remote with the drone every time and re balance the drone to stop it drifting but the instructions are really clear and once you have done it a couple of times it only takes a few seconds. Bear in mind if you are buying as a gift that, the remote takes three AAA batteries which aren’t included.Even after re balancing, it can still drift slightly but its really responsive and even my 6 year old can guide it round obstacles fairly comfortably on the lowest speed after only using it a handful of times.After flying more expensive drones and being terrified of damaging them, its really good fun to just whiz around with this without having to be overly concerned about damaging the drone.

Fiddly
OK, I’m no stranger to drones as I own and fly several high spec DJI drones. I’m not expecting to rate this item with one of those just that I am familiar with controls and build quality. So, this is quite simply a toy and that is where my expectations rest. Despite this it was pretty standard as far as flight controls are concerned. It was a little twitchy until I had completed trimming it but even then it never was able to hover for any length of time before wandering off on its own agenda. So flight-wise it was ok but not great. I found the omission of an on off switch on the aircraft a bit annoying. I have the 4DRC toy drone and this model is much more fiddly as a result of its smallness. The most annoying feature was those plugs and sockets between battery and aircraft. They were tight (as they should be) but they were awkward to open once closed together. It’s a toy drone, does what it does ok but I found the size to be an issue. Smaller than the 4DRC it was also a bit quieter in flight but even the prop guards were less than the protection afforded on the slightly larger 4DRC mini toy drone which is in the same price bracket. OK drone but in my opinion not as good as the 4DRC due to its smallness and awkward battery connections.

Ce petit drone est extrêmement bien conçu pour des vols intérieurs. Il est très simple (pas de caméra) et à la fois très complet (atterrissage automatique, 3 modes de vitesse, stabilisation à hauteur fixe…).C’est un outil parfait pour se familiariser avec le pilotage de drone et pas seulement un “joujou” (les manettes sont les mêmes que sur un modèle GPS).C’est un plaisir de le faire voler, il est très stable, les commandes répondent parfaitement, il est donc très rassurant pour quelqu’un qui n’a jamais piloter ce genre d’engin.Afin de le conserver longtemps en état de voler, il est recommandé de laisser refroidir 5 ou 10 mn les moteurs entre chaque vol d’une durée de 5 à 6 minutes. Il est aussi recommandé de laisser refroidir les batteries avant de les recharger.Les commentaires négatifs émanent souvent de personnes qui n’ont pas lu le descriptif (oui, il est tout petit, son autonomie est courte mais normale pour un drone de cette taille) ou les instructions (il faut appairer, calibrer le gyroscope et régler les éventuelles dérives, comme sur un “vrai” drone, ça prend une poignée de secondes).Le service après vente de Holy Stone est particulièrement réactif et répond à toutes les questions dans les 24 heures.

I bambini si divertono molto con questo mini drone. Acquistato un anno e mezzo fa, anche se un po` acciaccato, funziona ancora!Per questo prezzo non si può chiedere di più.

Super maniable et intuitif. 3 batteries ce qui permet un moment de vol. Je l’ai acheté pour mon petit fils de 6 ans. Le point négatif, c est le changement de batterie ou il faut être délicat, le système est mal fichu.