Autel EVO Nano Series: For Fleeting Moments of Life

About the product

Autel EVO Nano Series is a series of high-tech light­weight con­sumer drones (EVO Nano / EVO Nano +) from Autel Robot­ics that meet all the trends of a rapid­ly devel­op­ing hob­by, direct and in fact the only seri­ous com­peti­tors of the DJI Mini 2. These two small birds, weigh­ing only 249 grams, are equipped with a pow­er­ful for the occu­pied niche of the UAV with a 4K cam­era sys­tem, a long-range dig­i­tal FPV sys­tem, a 3‑way obsta­cle recog­ni­tion and avoid­ance sys­tem, a set of pro­pri­etary auto­mat­ic flight and shoot­ing modes, as well as ener­gy-effi­cient pow­er sup­ply pro­vid­ing an expo­nen­tial flight dura­tion. As usu­al, let’s start with the key fea­tures of both drones.

Peculiarities

• Drone flight weight: 249 grams
• Avail­able in two ver­sions: Nano/Nano+
• Avail­able col­ors: Orange/Gray/Red/White
• Diag­o­nal size: 231 mm
• Max. wind resis­tance: 10.7 m/s (lev­el 5 on the Beau­fort scale)
• Max. ceil­ing above sea lev­el: 4,000 m
• Max. hor­i­zon­tal flight speed: 54 km/h
• Max. flight time: 28 min
• Autel SkyLink Dig­i­tal Video Trans­mis­sion Sys­tem
• Slave. fre­quen­cy range: 2.4GHz/5.2GHz/5.8GHz
• Max. video link qual­i­ty: 2.7K at 30 fps
• Max. FPV flight range: 10 km
• Slave. oper­at­ing range tem­per­a­ture: 0°C ~ 40°C
• Posi­tion­ing: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo + bot­tom sen­sor sys­tem
• 3‑way binoc­u­lar obsta­cle recog­ni­tion and avoid­ance sys­tem (front/back/lower)
• Nano cam­era: 48MP 4K HDR cam­era built on 1/2‑inch CMOS sen­sor with a pix­el size of 1.6 × 1.6 μm (Bin2); with built-in RYYB col­or fil­ter array; FOV: 84° aper­ture: f/2.8; equiv. focal length: 24 mm
• Nano+ cam­era: 50MP 4K HDR cam­era built on 1/1.28-inch CMOS sen­sor with a pix­el size of 2.44 × 2.44 μm (Bin2); with built-in RYYB col­or fil­ter array; FOV: 85°; aper­ture: f/1.9; equiv. focal length: 23mm; advanced aut­o­fo­cus sys­tem PDAF + CDAF/MF
• Image sta­bi­liza­tion: 3‑axis mechan­i­cal gim­bal
• Max. Pho­to res­o­lu­tion (Nano): 48MP：8000 × 6000 (4:3)
• Max. pho­to res­o­lu­tion (Nano+): 50MP: 8192 × 6144 (4:3)
• Pho­to For­mat: JPG(8‑bit)/DNG(10-bit)/JPG+DNG
• Max. Video Res­o­lu­tion: 4K HDR: 3840×2160@30fps
• Video for­mat: MP4/MOV (8‑bit)
• Max. video bitrate: 100 Mbps
• 16x dig­i­tal zoom
• Por­trait blur func­tion in real time (Por­trait blur)
• defog mode
• Time­lapse Mode (Surround/Free)
• Panora­ma Mode (Horizontal/Vertical/Wide/Spherical)
• Auto­mat­ic mode for track­ing objects Dynam­ic Track 2.1 (avail­able lat­er)
• 4 × auto­mat­ic flight and shoot­ing modes (Rocket/Fade Away/Orbite/Flick)
• Super­Down­load high-speed file shar­ing fea­ture
• Built in mob. MovieMas­ter photo/video edi­tor app
• SoundRecord Func­tion
• Mob. Autel Sky App

Equipment

The devel­op­er offers the drone in two Nano/Nano+ ver­sions, the main dif­fer­ence being their cam­era sys­tem. In turn, both ver­sions are offered to the con­sumer in two trim lev­els:

1. stan­dard (includ­ed: Drone / Remote / Bat­tery / USB‑C charg­ing cable / 3 × RC cables / 2 × spare pro­peller (1CW/1CCW) / 8 × pro­peller fix­ing screws / Screw­driv­er / User man­u­al)
2. Pre­mi­um Bun­dle (includ­ed: Drone / Remote con­trol / Charg­ing pow­er sup­ply / Charg­ing hub / 2 × extra bat­ter­ies / USB‑C charg­ing cable / 3 × RC cables / Car­ry­ing bag / 6 × spare pro­pellers (3CW/3CCW) / 8 × mount­ing props pro­peller screws / Screw­driv­er / Pro­peller lock / User man­u­al)

Comparative table of configurations

In this table you can see the con­tents of the kits and com­pare them with each oth­er.

Add. Accessories

The list of addi­tion­al acces­sories offered by the devel­op­er includes:

• Autel Robot­ics Care — EVO Nano+: an extend­ed war­ran­ty pro­vid­ed by the devel­op­er for a fee, which cov­ers such unfore­seen cas­es as water dam­age to the drone or acci­dents due to fail­ure / mal­func­tion, includ­ing the fault of the pilot. In any case, the devel­op­er under­takes to prompt­ly repair or replace the damaged/lost drone with a new one. After pur­chas­ing the drone, the con­sumer has 48 hours to purchase/activate the extend­ed war­ran­ty.
• Autel Robot­ics SD Card Hold­er: Com­pact and durable SD card hold­er.
• EVO Nano & Lite Series Remote Con­troller: hand­held remote con­troller for EVO Nano and EVO Lite series drones. Works in tan­dem with a smart­phone. The con­troller pro­vides a data trans­mis­sion range of up to 10 km (Nano series) and 12 km (Lite series). All real-time flight infor­ma­tion is dis­played on the screen of the paired smart­phone in qual­i­ty up to 2.7K at 30 fps via mobile. the Sky App, and the tri-band com­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tem pro­vides reli­able pro­tec­tion against inter­fer­ence.
• EVO Nano Series Bat­tery: quick-change lithi­um-poly­mer bat­tery EVO Nano with a capac­i­ty of 2250 mAh and a volt­age of 7.7 V pro­vides up to 28 min­utes of flight. The bat­tery is avail­able in Orange/Gray/Red/White to match your EVO Nano.
• EVO Nano Series Gim­bal Cov­er: a trans­par­ent plas­tic gim­bal and cam­era retain­er that ensures their reli­able pro­tec­tion dur­ing stor­age and trans­porta­tion of the drone.
• EVO Nano Series Mul­ti-Charg­er: portable charg­ing hub that pro­vides sequen­tial charg­ing of up to three drone bat­ter­ies. Requires includ­ed USB‑C cable and charg­er (avail­able in Pre­mi­um Bun­dle).
• EVO Nano Series Pow­er Adapter: charg­ing pow­er sup­ply with fold­able plug. In tan­dem with a USB‑C cable (and / or charg­ing hub), it pro­vides charg­ing for the drone’s bat­ter­ies.
• EVO Nano Series Pro­peller Hold­er: A portable pro­peller trans­port lock that secures the pro­pellers when the air­craft is not in flight.
• EVO Nano Series Pro­pellers: The EVO Nano pro­pellers are made of impact-resis­tant nylon and fiber­glass, shaped for opti­mum aero­dy­nam­ic per­for­mance and min­i­mal noise lev­els, and fold­able for increased safe­ty and porta­bil­i­ty when stor­ing and trans­port­ing the drone.
• EVO Nano Series Shoul­der Bag: A com­pact shoul­der car­ry case for the EVO Nano series that holds the drone, spare bat­ter­ies, acces­sories and charg­ing equip­ment.
• RC cable: pro­vides pair­ing of the con­trol pan­el with a mobile device. Avail­able for smart­phones with Light­ning, Micro-USB or USB‑C ports.
• EVO Nano Series On the Go Bun­dle: retro­fit kit, which includes: shoul­der car­ry­ing bag, charg­ing hub, 2 × spare drone bat­ter­ies, 2 × pairs of pro­pellers (1CW / 1CCW), pro­peller hold­er, pow­er adapter and an addi­tion­al set of pro­peller mount­ing screws.

Specification

Drone

Flight weight:

249 g

Dimen­sions:

Fold­ed state: 142×94×55 mm
Flight con­di­tion: 260×325×55mm

Diag­o­nal frame size:

231 mm

Max. climb rate:

Ludi­crous mode: 18 km/h
stan­dard mode: 14.4 km/h
smooth mode: 10.8 km/h

Max. sink rate:

Ludi­crous mode: 14.4 km/h
stan­dard mode: 10.8 km/h
smooth mode: 7.2 km/h

Max. hor­i­zon­tal flight speed (in calm):

54 km/h

Max. ceil­ing above sea lev­el:

4000 m

Max. flight alti­tude:

800 m

Max. flight time (in calm; at a flight speed of 15 km / h):

28 min

Max. hov­er­ing time (calm):

26 min

Max. flight dis­tance (calm):

16.8 km

Max. wind resis­tance:

10.7 m/s (5 points on the Beau­fort scale)

Max. tilt angle:

Ludi­crous mode: 33°
stan­dard mode: 25°
smooth mode: 25°

Max. angu­lar veloc­i­ty:

Ludi­crous mode: 200°
stan­dard mode: 120°
smooth mode: 60°

Oper­at­ing range tem­per­a­tures:

0°C ~ 40°C

Slave. fre­quen­cy range:

2.400 — 2.4835 GHz
5.725 — 5.850 GHz
5.150 — 5.250 GHz

Trans­mit­ter pow­er (EIRP):

FCC: ≤1000mW
CE: ≤100mW

Satel­lite posi­tion­ing:

GPS / GLONASS / Galileo

Hov­er Accu­ra­cy:

In the ver­ti­cal plane: ±0.1 m (touch posi­tion­ing), ±0.5 m (GPS posi­tion­ing)
In the hor­i­zon­tal plane: ±0.3 m (touch posi­tion­ing), ±1.5 m (GPS posi­tion­ing)

suspension

Sta­bi­liza­tion:

3‑axis mechan­i­cal

Mechan­i­cal range:

pitch: ‑125° ~ 35°
Roll: ‑34° ~ 33°
Yaw: ‑25° ~ 25°

Slave. rota­tion angle range:

pitch: ‑90°~ 0°

Max. con­trol speed (Pitch):

30°/s

Angu­lar vibra­tion range:

±0.003°

Nano Camera

Matrix:

1/2″ CMOS
Eff. Pix­els: 48M
Pix­el size: 1.6 × 1.6 μm (Bin2)

Lens:

FOV: 84°
Equiv­a­lent focal length: 24 mm
Diaphragm: f/2.8
Focus range: 1m~∞
Focus mode: fixed focus

Shoot­ing mode:

Auto­mat­ic mode (P gear): EV adjustable, ISO/shutter speed auto­mat­ic
Man­u­al mode (M gear): ISO/Shutter adjustable, EV not adjustable
Shut­ter pri­or­i­ty (S file): Shut­ter speed/EV adjustable, ISO auto

ISO range:

Video: 100~3200
A pho­to: 100~3200

Shut­ter speed:

Pho­to mode: 1/8000 ~ 8s
Anoth­er: 1/8000~1/frame

Por­trait Blur:

Active in real-time and still pho­tog­ra­phy

defog mode:

sup­port­ed

Zoom:

16x dig­i­tal

Pho­to For­mat:

JPG (8‑bit) / DNG (10-bit) / JPG+DNG

Pho­to res­o­lu­tion:

48MP: 8000 × 6000 (4:3)
12MP: 4000 × 3000 (4:3)
4K: 3840×2160 (16:9)

Pho­to modes:

Time-lapse
Con­tin­u­ous shoot­ing: 3/5
AEB: 3/5
Inter­val: 2/3/4/5 sec (default)/6/…/60 sec (DNG min 5 sec)
HDR image: 3840×2160

Video encod­ing for­mat:

H265/H264

Video For­mat:

MP4/MOV (8‑bit)

Video res­o­lu­tion:

Max. bitrate:

100 Mbps

time­lapse:

Orig­i­nal Image: 3840×2160 JPG/DNG
Video: 4K @ 25 fps

Panoram­ic shoot­ing:

Horizontal/Vertical/Wide/Spherical
Orig­i­nal Image: 4000×3000 JPG/DNG

Sup­port­ed file sys­tem:

Fat32, ExFat

Data trans­fer via Wi-Fi:

20 Mbps

Nano+ camera

Matrix:

1/1.28″ CMOS
Eff. Pix­els: 50M
Pix­el Size: 2.44 × 2.44 µm (Bin2)

Lens:

FOV: 85°
Equiv­a­lent focal length: 23 mm
Diaphragm: f/1.9
Focus range: 0.5m~∞
Focus mode: PDAF+CDAF/MF

Shoot­ing mode:

Auto­mat­ic mode (P gear): EV adjustable, ISO/shutter speed auto­mat­ic
Man­u­al mode (M gear): ISO/Shutter adjustable, EV not adjustable
Shut­ter pri­or­i­ty (S file): Shut­ter speed/EV adjustable, ISO auto

ISO range:

Video: 100~6400
A pho­to: 100~6400

Shut­ter speed:

Pho­to mode: 1/8000 ~ 8s
Anoth­er: 1/8000~1/frame

Por­trait Blur:

Active in real-time and still pho­tog­ra­phy

defog mode:

sup­port­ed

Zoom:

16x dig­i­tal

Pho­to For­mat:

JPG (8‑bit) / DNG (10-bit) / JPG+DNG

Pho­to res­o­lu­tion:

50MP: 8192 × 6144 (4:3)
12.5MP: 4096 × 3072 (4:3)
4K: 3840×2160 (16:9)

Pho­to modes:

Time-lapse
Con­tin­u­ous shoot­ing: 3/5
AEB: 3/5
Inter­val: 2/3/4/5 sec (default)/6/…/60 sec (DNG min 5 sec)
HDR image: 3840×2160

Video encod­ing for­mat:

H265/H264

Video For­mat:

MP4/MOV (8‑bit)

Video res­o­lu­tion:

Max. bitrate:

100 Mbps

time­lapse:

Orig­i­nal Image: 3840×2160 JPG/DNG
Video: 4K @ 25 fps

Panoram­ic shoot­ing:

Horizontal/Vertical/Wide/Spherical
Orig­i­nal Image: 4096×3072 JPG/DNG

Sup­port­ed file sys­tem:

Fat32, ExFat

Data trans­fer via Wi-Fi:

20 Mbps

Sensory system

Front:

Mea­sur­ing accu­ra­cy range: 0.5–16 m
Effec­tive Per­cep­tion Speed: <36 km/h
FOV: Hor­i­zon­tal <40°, ver­ti­cal <30°

Back:

Mea­sur­ing accu­ra­cy range: 0.5–18 m
Effec­tive Per­cep­tion Speed: <43.2 km/h
FOV: Hor­i­zon­tal <40°, ver­ti­cal <30°

Low­er:

Mea­sur­ing accu­ra­cy range: 0.5–20 m
Accu­rate Hov­er Range: 0.5 — 40 m
FOV: Hor­i­zon­tal <40°, ver­ti­cal <30°

Aux­il­iary bot­tom light­ing:

miss­ing

Work­ing envi­ron­ment:

Dif­fuse reflec­tive sur­face with sharp tex­ture and >20% reflec­tiv­i­ty (for exam­ple: walls, trees, peo­ple, etc.); Opti­mal illu­mi­na­tion (>15 lux)

Videolink

Video trans­mis­sion sys­tem:

Autel SkyLink

Video qual­i­ty:

2.7K at 30 fps (range less than 1 km)
1080P@30fps (dis­tance over 1km)

Bitrate:

90 Mbps

Video delay:

≤200ms

Control equipment

Slave. fre­quen­cy range:

2.400 — 2.4835GHz, 5.725 — 5.850GHz, 5.150 — 5.250GHz

Max. sig­nal trans­mis­sion dis­tance:

FCC: 10 km
CE: 5 km

Oper­at­ing range tem­per­a­tures:

0°C ~ 40°C

Trans­mit­ter pow­er (EIRP):

FCC: ≤1000mW
CE: ≤100mW

Bat­tery capac­i­ty:

3 930 mAh

Max. auton­o­my:

2.5 h (in tan­dem with a smart­phone)
3.5 hours (with­out smart­phone)

inter­face type:

Type C

drone battery

Capac­i­ty:

2 250 mAh

Volt­age:

7.7V

Max. charg­ing volt­age:

8.8V

Bat­tery type:

LiPo 2S

Pow­er:

17.32 Wh

Charg­ing tem­per­a­ture range:

5°C ~ 45°C

Slave. tem­per­a­ture range:

-10°C ~ 40°C

Charg­ing time for one bat­tery:

90 min

Max. charge pow­er:

30 W

Charging adapter

Entrance. food:

100–240V/50–60Hz

Exit. food:

5V⎓3A, 9V⎓3A, 12V⎓2.5A

Nom. Pow­er:

30 W

APP

Mob. Appen­dix:

Autel Sky

Sup­port­ed OS:

iOS 13.0 and above
Android 6.0 and up

Memory

Built-in mem­o­ry:

miss­ing

SD stor­age:

MicroSD; Max. capac­i­ty: 256 GB (Class: UHS‑3)

Below you will find key infor­ma­tion about the Autel EVO Nano (+) that will allow you to learn more about the drone and make the right choice.

Drone Comparison Chart

For those who do not have time to get acquaint­ed with all the mate­r­i­al, we sug­gest tak­ing a look at our com­par­i­son table, where you can quick­ly com­pare both ver­sions in key para­me­ters with each oth­er, as well as with the only com­peti­tor in the light­weight UAV niche, the DJI Mini 2 drone.

Appearance

Autel EVO Nano

Autel EVO Nano+

Portable and lightweight

The EVO Nano and Nano+ drones weigh about the same weight as a smart­phone and fit almost any­where from the side pock­et of a back­pack to the palm of your hand. Accord­ing to the spec­i­fi­ca­tion, the flight weight of the EVO Nano and Nano+ drones is 249 grams, which, among oth­er things, exempts the user from the UAV reg­is­tra­tion / reg­is­tra­tion pro­ce­dure in some coun­tries. Note! Recent­ly, in the World, the weight thresh­old of con­sumer UAVs has been reduced from 250 grams to 150 grams, respec­tive­ly, all UAVs weigh­ing more than 150 grams are sub­ject to account­ing. You can learn more about this in our sep­a­rate review.

Color

Unlike DJI, Autel Robot­ics engi­neers offer their cus­tomers the EVO Nano and Nano + drone in four col­ors: orange, gray, red and white. As they say, a tri­fle, but nice.

Versions

The devel­op­er offers the EVO Nano series drone in two ver­sions: “EVO Nano” and “EVO Nano+”. The main and only dif­fer­ence is their cham­ber sys­tem.

Camera

EVO Nano

For photo/video shoot­ing of the EVO Nano drone, a 48MP 4K HDR cam­era built on a 1/2‑inch CMOS matrix with a pix­el size of 1.6 × 1.6 μm (Bin2) is respon­si­ble; with built-in RYYB col­or fil­ter array; FOV: 84° aper­ture: f/2.8; equiv. focal length: 24 mm. An ultra-pre­cise 3‑axis mechan­i­cal gim­bal is respon­si­ble for image sta­bi­liza­tion.

Max. video qual­i­ty: 4K HDR 3840 × 2160 at 30 fps in MP4/MOV (8‑bit) for­mats. Max. pho­to qual­i­ty: 48MP 8000 × 6000 (4:3) in JPG (8‑bit) / DNG (10-bit) / JPG+DNG for­mats.

Shooting quality

An exam­ple of the video qual­i­ty of the EVO Nano drone (with­out post-pro­cess­ing):

EVO Nano+

A more advanced video sys­tem is respon­si­ble for pho­to / video shoot­ing of the EVO Nano + drone, which is based on a 50MP 4K HDR cam­era built on a 1 / 1.28-inch CMOS matrix with a pix­el size of 2.44 × 2.44 μm (Bin2); with built-in RYYB col­or fil­ter array; FOV: 85°; aper­ture: f/1.9; equiv. focal length: 23mm; advanced aut­o­fo­cus sys­tem PDAF + CDAF. An ultra-pre­cise 3‑axis mechan­i­cal gim­bal is respon­si­ble for image sta­bi­liza­tion.

Max. video qual­i­ty: 4K HDR 3840 × 2160 at 30 fps in MP4/MOV (8‑bit) for­mats. Max. pho­to qual­i­ty: 50MP 8192 × 6144 (4:3) in JPG (8‑bit) / DNG (10-bit) / JPG+DNG for­mats.

Shooting quality

An exam­ple of the qual­i­ty of shoot­ing drone EVO Nano + (with­out post-pro­cess­ing):

digital zoom

The video sys­tem of both ver­sions of the drone has 16x dig­i­tal zoom in its arse­nal. It is not worth plac­ing high hopes on it, since in prac­tice zoom­ing with­out loss in qual­i­ty is pro­vid­ed with­in a 2‑fold increase, which is gen­er­al­ly the norm for UAVs in their niche.

EVO Nano+ zoom example

Defog Mode

A new fea­ture affect­ing the auto­mat­ic adjust­ment of the video sys­tem set­tings for shoot­ing in dif­fi­cult envi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions. With Defog mode active, whether you’re fly­ing over a fog­gy hill­top at dawn or hov­er­ing at the base of a water­fall, the drone’s sys­tem will auto­mat­i­cal­ly adjust the cam­era set­tings so your footage looks crisp and clear.

FPV

To ensure con­fi­dent pilot­ing of the drone in FPV mode, the devel­op­er equipped it with its top dig­i­tal Autel SkyLink video stream­ing sys­tem, which pro­vides exem­plary noise immu­ni­ty, a sig­nal trans­mis­sion range of up to 10 km and a max­i­mum video link qual­i­ty of 2.7K at 30 fps. How­ev­er, it is worth not­ing here that in fact, the FPV flight range in the broad­cast qual­i­ty of the 2.7K video stream is less than 1 km, while the SkyLink dig­i­tal sys­tem pro­vides the max­i­mum poten­tial only in 1080P qual­i­ty at 30 fps, as the devel­op­er explains in the prod­uct spec­i­fi­ca­tion.

Nev­er­the­less, a 2.7K or FHD video stream is very cool, because it’s not even about the range, but about the qual­i­ty of the visu­al­iza­tion of a het­ero­ge­neous envi­ron­ment, where one unno­ticed high-volt­age wire or branch can cause the loss of an expen­sive drone.

Max. flight range EVO Nano+

3‑way imaging system

Autel EVO Nano (+) became the first drone in the light­weight niche of UAVs (up to 250 grams) to receive a pow­er­ful binoc­u­lar visu­al­iza­tion sys­tem of the sur­round­ing world, which, cou­pled with an advanced AI algo­rithm, allows not only to rec­og­nize obsta­cles in front, behind and below the drone, but also to plot safe routes in advance flight. With the advent of this sys­tem, anoth­er advanced tech­nol­o­gy, Dynam­ic Track 2.1, also entered the arse­nal of both ver­sions, which allows the copter to auto­mat­i­cal­ly track the objects select­ed for shoot­ing.

Dynamic Track 2.1

One of the most strik­ing and desir­able fea­tures of both ver­sions is the top patent­ed Dynam­ic Track 2.1 ™ auto­mat­ic object track­ing sys­tem, which allows using AI to track objects select­ed for shoot­ing even at high speeds, as well as to cre­ate real-time tra­jec­to­ries around encoun­tered obsta­cles in advance.

Accord­ing to the infor­ma­tion on the offi­cial web­site, DT2.1 will be avail­able lat­er with the arrival of the next firmware update. Based on the exem­plary per­for­mance of the pre­vi­ous DT 2.0 sys­tem, it is safe to say that wait­ing for the arrival of more advanced tech­nol­o­gy will undoubt­ed­ly jus­ti­fy its expo­nen­tial result in prac­tice.

Auto flight and shooting modes

The abil­i­ty to cre­ate spec­tac­u­lar pro­fes­sion­al-lev­el shots in one tap is the hall­mark of any high-tech drone. Autel Robot­ics engi­neers offer the user four brand­ed auto-flight and Quick­Shots shoot­ing modes, which will allow the user of any skill lev­el to cap­ture the best moments of life as cin­e­ma pro­fes­sion­als do. You can empha­size the epic nature of events by apply­ing fil­ters and music.

Rocket

fade away

Orbit

flick

battery

The EVO Nano series is pow­ered by a 2S/7.7V lithi­um-poly­mer intel­li­gent flight bat­tery with a capac­i­ty of 2250 mAh and a capac­i­ty of 17.32 Wh. Pro­vides a max­i­mum flight dura­tion of 28 min­utes, indica­tive for a light­weight drone with the declared func­tion­al­i­ty (achieved in calm weath­er at a flight speed of 15 km/h). In prac­tice, with a mixed style of pilot­ing and envi­ron­men­tal con­di­tions, you can expect from 20 to 23 min­utes of flight.

Max. flight time

Control

The EVO Nano series of drones is con­trolled by a clas­sic tan­dem con­sist­ing of uni­ver­sal con­trol equip­ment (imple­ment­ed for the EVO Nano / EVO Lite series of drones) and a smart­phone via the Autel Sky mobile appli­ca­tion. Slave. fre­quen­cy range: 2.4GHz/5.2GHz/5.8GHz. Remote con­trol pow­er: built-in capac­i­ty of 3930 mAh. Max. auton­o­my: 2.5 hours. Max. charg­ing time: 120 min­utes. Inter­face: USB‑C charg­ing port + USB‑C port for con­nect­ing a smart­phone via the sup­plied RC cable (loca­tion: on the front side of the remote con­trol under the smart­phone hold­er). Do not con­fuse!

Pro­vid­ed video stream qual­i­ty: 2.7K at 30 fps (range up to 1 km); 1080P at 30 fps (range over 1 km). Max. video trans­mis­sion delay: ≤200ms. Max. video sig­nal trans­mis­sion range: 10 km.

APP

To ensure full con­trol of the drone, it is pro­posed to use a mobile appli­ca­tion spe­cial­ly devel­oped for the EVO Nano / EVO Lite series — Autel Sky, thanks to which, in addi­tion to FPV pilot­ing, con­trol­ling drone and cam­era set­tings, the soft­ware allows you to cre­ate and edit short videos in a few taps, as well as share them with the com­mu­ni­ty. To down­load the Autel Sky app, vis­it the offi­cial Autel EVO Nano/ EVO Lite down­load page at: https://www.autelrobotics.com/download/app_download.html.

MovieMaster

MovieMas­ter is an intu­itive set of video tem­plates pre-installed in the Autel Sky mobile app for quick­ly and eas­i­ly cre­at­ing mas­ter­pieces with a cin­e­mat­ic touch, allow­ing the user to sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduce the tedious process of edit­ing cap­tured pho­tos and videos, and quick­ly share their cre­ativ­i­ty with the com­mu­ni­ty.

Developer Quick Start Guide

SuperDownload

To ensure max­i­mum effi­cien­cy when inter­act­ing with the footage, the devel­op­er has added the “Super­Down­load” func­tion to the drone’s arse­nal, which allows the user to trans­fer files record­ed on the drone’s SD card in their orig­i­nal qual­i­ty to a smart­phone at speeds up to 160 Mbps (20 MB) with­out hav­ing to con­nect the drone to a PC. /With). More details about the func­tion in the FAQ sec­tion below.

Price and availability

Both ver­sions of the EVO Nano are now avail­able for pur­chase through all Autel Robot­ics brand­ed online stores. We note right away that the prod­ucts of this com­pa­ny are not offi­cial­ly sup­plied to the World, respec­tive­ly, there is no after-sales guar­an­tee and tech­ni­cal sup­port. sup­port is not pro­vid­ed. Depend­ing on the select­ed ver­sion and con­fig­u­ra­tion, the devel­op­er has set the fol­low­ing prices for the drone, as well as for addi­tion­al acces­sories:

EVO Nano version

1. Stan­dard — $799
2. Pre­mi­um Bun­dle — $949

EVO Nano+ Version

1. Stan­dard — $949
2. Pre­mi­um Bun­dle — $1099

Add. Accessories

Conclusion

Autel EVO Nano (+) from $799

Func­tion­al­i­ty

9/10

Flight time

9/10

Flight qual­i­ties

8/10

com­pact­ness

9/10

Equip­ment

10/10

Reli­a­bil­i­ty

10/10

Price qual­i­ty

10/10

pros

• Flight weight up to 250 g
• Fold­able design
• 3‑way obsta­cle detec­tion and avoid­ance sys­tem
• Auto­mat­ic object track­ing func­tion
• The qual­i­ty of pho­to / video film­ing in the occu­pied niche of the UAV (Pho­to 10 bit / Video 8 bit)
• Auto­mat­ic flight and shoot­ing modes Quick­Shots
• Long-range and noise-immune video trans­mis­sion sys­tem
• Flight time up to 28 min
• Intu­itive tools for quick photo/video edit­ing and shar­ing
• Four drone col­or options

Minuses

• Bugs in the soft­ware (the devel­op­er slow­ly but sure­ly solves them) In gen­er­al, it’s a mat­ter of time.
• Key func­tions are cur­rent­ly not avail­able due to their opti­miza­tion by the devel­op­er. Will be avail­able lat­er with the next firmware update.
• Warn­ing sys­tem oper­a­tion
• Gen­er­al fragili­ty of the prod­uct

Today, this is the only light­weight solu­tion that can com­pete with the best­seller of our hob­by in the occu­pied niche of the UAV DJI Mini 2, pri­mar­i­ly out­per­form­ing the lat­ter with the pres­ence of a 3‑way sen­sor sys­tem for rec­og­niz­ing and avoid­ing obsta­cles and an auto­mat­ic object track­ing mode, where it is worth not­ing right away that if you are today If you buy an EVO Nano series drone, you will not be able to ful­ly use its sen­sor sys­tem and some auto flight and shoot­ing modes, as Autel engi­neers are cur­rent­ly opti­miz­ing these func­tions. Oth­er­wise, both com­peti­tors (EVO Nano (+) and DJI Mini 2) are unique ultra-light solu­tions with rel­a­tive­ly sim­i­lar poten­tial, designed for entry-lev­el aer­i­al pho­to / video shoot­ing.

The main advan­tages of both ver­sions include an advanced 4K video sys­tem built on high-per­for­mance com­po­nents using top tech­nolo­gies, includ­ing a larg­er matrix with a built-in array of Bay­er col­or fil­ters, which allows for improved shoot­ing qual­i­ty at the out­put, includ­ing in low light con­di­tions. We also note the demon­stra­tive long-range oper­a­tion of the Autel SkyLink dig­i­tal video trans­mis­sion sys­tem.

The main dis­ad­van­tages include the extreme­ly slow progress in final­iza­tion by the soft­ware devel­op­er, giv­en that the EVO Nano series was released in Jan­u­ary of this year and still does not meet the declared func­tion­al­i­ty and per­for­mance. In par­tic­u­lar, there are prob­lems with auto-return to the take-off point, prob­lems with cal­cu­lat­ing the remain­ing bat­tery charge, which can lead to an emer­gency land­ing on the way back due to an insuf­fi­cient bat­tery charge sud­den­ly detect­ed by the sys­tem. In addi­tion to the soft­ware, users also com­plain about the oper­a­tion of the alert sys­tem and the over­all fragili­ty of the drone.

Sum­ma­riz­ing all of the above in this review: The EVO Nano series of drones is one of the best offer­ings in its niche with the indica­tive poten­tial of full-sized UAVs. By pur­chas­ing this mod­el today, you will by and large not be dis­ap­point­ed with the over­all per­for­mance of the drone, how­ev­er, you will have to tem­porar­i­ly put up with the imper­fect state of the soft­ware part and the absence of some key fea­tures of the drone, which will undoubt­ed­ly appear in its arse­nal lat­er with the arrival of the next firmware update.

That’s all we have, we hope that you have not wast­ed your pre­cious time and were able to ulti­mate­ly make your best choice. Well, for those who, for var­i­ous rea­sons, could not decide, we rec­om­mend that you turn your atten­tion to the FAQ sec­tion below, where we have col­lect­ed all the fre­quent­ly asked ques­tions about the EVO Nano (+) series of drones. We thank you for your atten­tion. Fly safe! Peace and good­ness to all!

FAQ

Drone

Q. What is the flight weight of the EVO Nano (+) drone?
A. The weight of the drone is ≤249g, but the exact weight may vary depend­ing on the pro­duc­tion batch (please refer to the spec­i­fi­ca­tion in the user man­u­al for details). The EVO Nano series is not sub­ject to reg­is­tra­tion in some coun­tries or regions. It is rec­om­mend­ed that you famil­iar­ize your­self with the rel­e­vant local laws and reg­u­la­tions before oper­at­ing.

Q. What is the dif­fer­ence between EVO Nano and EVO Nano+?
A. The only dif­fer­ence between the two prod­ucts is the cam­era, oth­er spec­i­fi­ca­tions are iden­ti­cal.

Q. What col­or options are avail­able for the EVO Nano series?
A. The EVO Nano series is avail­able in four col­ors: Autel Orange (Orange), Arc­tic White (White), Blaz­ing Red (Red) and Deep Space Gray (Grey).

Q. Are the EVO Nano series drones equipped with a sen­sor-based obsta­cle detec­tion and avoid­ance sys­tem?
A. Yes, the EVO Nano series drones have a 3‑way binoc­u­lar obsta­cle detec­tion and flight sys­tem, thanks to which the car is able to rec­og­nize obsta­cles in front, behind and from below, as well as lay out safe routes around them in advance.

Q. How to acti­vate the EVO Nano drone?
A. To acti­vate, the user needs to con­nect the smart­phone to the remote con­troller, then pair with the air­craft through the Autel Sky app and fol­low the instruc­tions in the Autel Sky app until acti­va­tion is com­plete.

Q. Where can I down­load the Autel Sky mobile app?
A. To down­load the Autel Sky app, vis­it the offi­cial Autel EVO Nano/ EVO Lite down­load page at: https://www.autelrobotics.com/download/app_download.html.

Q. Is the EVO Nano series water­proof?
Oh no.

Q. What is the wind resis­tance of the EVO Nano series?
A. The wind resis­tance of the EVO Nano series is 8.5 ~ 10.5 m/s (Lev­el 5).

Q. What is the max­i­mum flight speed of the EVO Nano series?
A. All EVO Nano series have three flight modes that can be switched in the air­craft set­tings through the Autel Sky app: Smooth mode (Slow), Stan­dard mode (Nor­mal) and Ludi­crous mode (Fast). The max­i­mum flight speed of the drone in Smooth mode: 18 km/h; in Stan­dard mode: 36 km/h; in Ludi­crous mode: 54 km/h.

Q. What is the max. ceil­ing above sea lev­el for the EVO Nano series?
O. 4000 m.

Q. What is the max. flight alti­tude of the EVO Nano series?
O. 800 m.

Q. Does the EVO Nano series sup­port the one-but­ton auto­mat­ic return of the drone to its take-off loca­tion?
Sup­ports. Remem­ber to check the return height in the air­craft set­tings before tak­ing off and make sure it is high­er than any poten­tial obsta­cle that the air­craft may encounter when per­form­ing the “One-key Return to Home” auto return func­tion.

Q. How to install the pro­peller cor­rect­ly?
A. To install the pro­pellers cor­rect­ly, fol­low these steps:

1. Make sure the drone is turned off.
2. Mount the pro­peller with the dot mark on the motors that are locat­ed on the beam with the same mark, and the pro­peller with­out the dot mark on the motors that are mount­ed on the arms with­out the mark.
3. Align the round holes of the pro­peller with the mount­ing screw holes on the motor and tight­en them tight­ly.

Q. How often do blades need to be changed?
A. Before each flight, the blades should be inspect­ed for defor­ma­tion, wear, break­age, or dete­ri­o­ra­tion, as well as for loose blade mount­ing screws. If these con­di­tions exist, the blades and mount­ing screws must be replaced with new ones.

Remote control and video link

Q. Is the EVO Nano series remote con­trol com­pat­i­ble with the EVO Lite series?
Oh yeah.

Q. How to use the “Super­Down­load” func­tion?
A. To quick­ly share files, fol­low these steps:

1. Pow­er on the drone and put the drone on the ground.
2. Con­nect your mobile phone to the remote con­troller, launch the Autel Sky app and pair the air­craft and remote con­troller.
3. After pair­ing, open the album, select the files you want, and tap the down­load icon to real­ize the high-speed trans­fer of the select­ed files.

Note: It is rec­om­mend­ed to use the Super­Down­load func­tion in an inter­fer­ence-free envi­ron­ment, away from routers, Blue­tooth head­phones, and oth­er sources of inter­fer­ence. Max. down­load speed can be achieved in coun­tries where the 5.8 GHz fre­quen­cy band is legal­ly allowed. If the 5.8 GHz band is dis­abled, then the down­load speed will be lim­it­ed by the band­width of the 2.4 GHz band.

Q. How to ensure the best sig­nal qual­i­ty dur­ing flight?
A. The remote con­trol anten­na is built into the smart­phone hold­er. Adjust the angle of the anten­na accord­ing to the posi­tion of the drone, i.e. set the top of the phone hold­er towards the drone and make sure that there are no obsta­cles between the remote con­trol and the drone dur­ing the entire flight (build­ings, rein­forced con­crete struc­tures, park­ing lots, for­est, bush­es, etc.) .d.).

Q. What are the advan­tages of the Autel SkyLink dig­i­tal video trans­mis­sion sys­tem?
Autel SkyLink sup­ports tri-band (2.4 GHz / 5.8 GHz / 5.2 GHz) oper­a­tion mode with auto­mat­ic switch­ing between these bands depend­ing on the inter­fer­ence sit­u­a­tion. In addi­tion, Autel SkyLink has improved anti-inter­fer­ence per­for­mance and image trans­mis­sion sta­bil­i­ty.

Q. What is the trans­mis­sion qual­i­ty of the video stream?
A. At a dis­tance of up to 1 km, the qual­i­ty of the video stream can reach 2.7K at 30 fps. At a dis­tance of more than 1 km, the qual­i­ty of the video stream will be 1080P at 30 fps.

Q. What is the effec­tive FPV range of the EVO Nano drone series?
A. In the open area, where there are no obsta­cles and inter­fer­ence, in FCC mode, the max­i­mum flight range is 10 km.

Q. Are there cus­tomiz­able but­tons on the remote?
A. Yes, there is. A cus­tomiz­able func­tion but­ton is locat­ed in the upper left cor­ner of the con­trol hard­ware, which can be con­fig­ured through the Autel Sky app. The fol­low­ing func­tions can be assigned to this but­ton: By pressing/double press­ing the user but­ton: enable/disable obsta­cle avoid­ance; auto expo­sure lock/unlock; return the gim­bal to the cen­ter / down; switch­ing between map and FPV mode.

Q. What inter­face does the con­trol pan­el have?
A. 1. Type‑C port at the bot­tom of the remote con­trol — for charg­ing the remote con­trol; 2. Type‑C port at the top of the con­sole — designed to con­nect mobile devices.

Q. Does the remote have an HDMI out­put?
Oh no.

Camera

Q. What matrix are the cam­eras of EVO Nano series drones built on?
A. The EVO Nano cam­era is built on a 48MP 1/2‑inch CMOS sen­sor with a pix­el size of 1.6 × 1.6 μm (Bin2); with built-in RYYB col­or fil­ter array. The EVO Nano+ cam­era is built on a 50MP 1/1.28-inch CMOS sen­sor with a pix­el size of 2.44 × 2.44 μm (Bin2); with built-in RYYB col­or fil­ter array.

Q. What is the image qual­i­ty of the EVO Nano series?
A. EVO series drone cam­eras pro­vide the fol­low­ing image qual­i­ty:

EVO Nano

A pho­to:

• 48MP: 8000 × 6000 (4:3)
• 12MP: 4000 × 3000 (4:3)
• 4K: 3840×2160 (16:9)

Video:

• 4K: 3840 × 2160 at 30/25/24 fps
• 2.7K: 2720 ​​× 1528 at 30/25/24 fps
• FHD: 1920 × 1080 at 60/50/48/30/25/24 fps.

EVO Nano+

A pho­to:

• 50MP: 8192 × 6144 (4:3)
• 12.5MP: 4096 × 3072 (4:3)
• 4K: 3840×2160 (16:9)

Video:

• 4K: 3840 × 2160 at 30/25/24 fps
• 2.7K: 2720 ​​× 1528 at 30/25/24 fps
• FHD: 1920 × 1080 at 60/50/48/30/25/24 fps.

Q. What pho­to modes does the EVO Nano series sup­port?
A. Sin­gle frame, Burst, AEB, Delayed, HDR.

Q. Does the EVO Nano series sup­port RAW pho­tog­ra­phy?
Oh yeah.

Q. Does the EVO Nano series cam­era sys­tem sup­port zoom?
A. Yes, the drone cam­era sys­tem sup­ports 16x dig­i­tal zoom.

Q. What shoot­ing for­mats does the EVO Nano series sup­port?
A. Pho­to: JPG(8‑bit)/DNG(10-bit)/JPG+DNG; Video: MP4/MOV (8‑bit).

Q. How does EVO Nano series drones achieve image sta­bi­liza­tion?
A. The mechan­i­cal 3‑axis gim­bal (Pitch/Yaw/Roll) is respon­si­ble for image sta­bi­liza­tion.

Q. Does the EVO Nano series sup­port time-lapse pho­tog­ra­phy?
A. Yes, it does. The EVO Nano series sup­ports Sur­round Time-lapse and Free Time-lapse.

Q. Does the EVO Nano series sup­port panoram­ic shoot­ing?
A. Yes, it does. The EVO Nano series sup­ports horizontal/vertical/wide/spherical shoot­ing.

Q. Does the EVO Nano series sup­port auto­mat­ic object track­ing?
A. Yes, it does. The acti­va­tion of the mode is car­ried out through the mobile. Autel Sky App.

Q. Does the EVO Nano series sup­port por­trait mode?
A. The EVO Nano series sup­ports Close-up/Medi­um/Tele­pho­to modes.

Q. Does the EVO Nano series sup­port auto flight and one-tap shoot­ing modes?
A. Sup­ports. The drones have four pre­set auto flight and shoot­ing modes: Rocket/Fade Away/Orbite/Flick.

Q. Does the EVO Nano series sup­port ver­ti­cal shoot­ing mode?
A. No, it does not. But it allows soft­ware crop­ping to obtain a ver­ti­cal image on the screen, which in turn neg­a­tive­ly affects the orig­i­nal qual­i­ty.

Q. Does the EVO Nano drone series sup­port quick cam­era change?
Oh no.

Food

Q. What is the max­i­mum bat­tery life of the EVO Nano series?
A. Approx­i­mate­ly 28 min­utes (in calm weath­er at a flight speed of 15 km/h).

Q. Can I bring a bat­tery on board an air­craft?
A. The bat­tery has a capac­i­ty of 17.32 Wh and can be car­ried on board air­craft in accor­dance with air­line reg­u­la­tions.

Q. Can the bat­tery be used in cold envi­ron­ments?
O. Slave. bat­tery tem­per­a­ture range: ‑10°C ~ 40°C. When using the bat­tery in a low tem­per­a­ture envi­ron­ment, the bat­tery life will inevitably be short­ened. To opti­mize per­for­mance in cold weath­er, it is rec­om­mend­ed to warm up the bat­tery to 15 °C before use.

Q. How to use the bat­tery cor­rect­ly?
A. For the cor­rect oper­a­tion of the air­craft pow­er sup­ply, please observe the fol­low­ing con­di­tions:

1. Do not expose the bat­tery to tem­per­a­tures below ‑10°C or above 40°C, which may short­en the life of the bat­tery and may even cause a fire, explo­sion, or oth­er per­ma­nent dam­age.
2. Do not charge the bat­tery imme­di­ate­ly after the flight, it is rec­om­mend­ed to wait until the bat­tery has cooled to room tem­per­a­ture before charg­ing. The ide­al ambi­ent tem­per­a­ture for bat­tery charg­ing is 10°C ~ 30°C.
3. The ide­al bat­tery stor­age tem­per­a­ture is 22°C ~ 28°C. The bat­tery should be stored in a water­proof and mois­ture-proof place, pro­tect­ed from sun­light.
4. Remem­ber to charge and dis­charge the bat­tery every 3 months of inac­tiv­i­ty to ensure its effi­cient per­for­mance.

Q. How long does it take to charge the bat­tery?
A. Each bat­tery takes approx­i­mate­ly 90 min­utes to ful­ly charge.

Q. How to charge the bat­tery?
A. You can use the Type‑C charg­ing cable (includ­ed) to charge the drone bat­tery direct­ly from the charg­ing adapter, or use the EVO Nano Series Mul­ti-Charg­er Portable Charg­ing Hub to charge. Details about these and not only acces­sories in the sec­tion “Add. acces­sories”

Mob. app and firmware update

Q. Where can I down­load the Autel Sky mobile app?
A. You can down­load the appli­ca­tion from the devel­op­er’s web­site at the link: https://www.autelrobotics.com/download/app_download.html.

Q. Can I go offline to con­tin­ue updat­ing after the new firmware down­load is com­plete?
Oh yeah.

Q. What can cause an update to fail?
A. The fol­low­ing rea­sons can cause the update process to fail:

1. If you dis­con­nect while down­load­ing the soft­ware.
2. If you turn off the device direct­ly dur­ing the update process.
3. Insuf­fi­cient bat­tery charge. Before updat­ing, make sure that the bat­tery and remote con­trol have ≥ 30% remain­ing pow­er.

If it fails for any rea­son, just reboot the devices (Aircraft/Remote) and repeat the update process again.

Q. How to update the firmware?
A. To update the firmware, please fol­low the steps below:

1. Turn on the drone, remote con­trol with a smart­phone and wait for the devices to pair.
2. When the sys­tem detects a new firmware ver­sion, the Autel Sky App will auto­mat­i­cal­ly dis­play a pop-up win­dow.
3. Fol­low the instruc­tions in the Autel Sky App to update the firmware. Users can check the update process through the appli­ca­tion inter­face.
4. After the update is com­plete, restart the air­craft and remote con­troller.

Developer’s Firmware Upgrade Guide

Q. What smart­phone sys­tems does the Autel Sky app sup­port?
A. iOS 12.0 and above; Android 8.0 and above.

Q. How do I update the Autel Sky App?
A. When the sys­tem detects a new ver­sion of the app, it will auto­mat­i­cal­ly dis­play a pop-up win­dow after con­nect­ing to the air­craft, and then you can start the update process.

Video

From the developer

Brief guide to basic oper­a­tions.

A quick guide to using auto­mat­ic flight modes and Quick­Shots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkr0NVT-Wo

Guide to using MovieMas­ter.

Cam­era Gim­bal Cal­i­bra­tion Guide.

Firmware Upgrade Guide.

A guide to pair­ing a drone with a remote con­trol.

From users

Unpack­ing and flight test.

Flight test for max. range.

Flight test for max. range.

Unpack­ing, main con­clu­sions, ver­sion dif­fer­ences, flight test.

Flight review. Max. range and max. flight time.

Review of Autel EVO Nano+.