Sharper Image® X-Treme Aero Mini Drone, 4.6″ RC Stunt Helicopter, 2.4 GHz Long Range Remote Control, Quiet Indoor & Outdoor Toy, Lightweight Durable, Kids & Adult Beginner Pocket Drone, Small Gift

Thank you everything is fine
Thank you everything is fine

Nice for a starter
I had no idea what to get my 13 yr old and decided to take a chance on this. He likes it but if you have pets in the home be prepared to be cleaning it often. We have found that tweezers is this little drones best friend. The instructions and box contradict itself by one saying indoor use only and the other stating it can be used outdoors. My 13 yr says it’s definitely an indoor as it was difficult to us outdoors but that may be due to being inexperienced. The propellers are hard to remove for cleaning is why we use tweezers as we haven’t been able to remove them. They seem a bit fragile and we are afraid to pull to hard that it may break. It does come with extra parts so maybe after being flown a bit it will be easier. This is our first experience with a drone so we are still learning.

Doesn’t work and instructions wrong
This mini drone seemed like it would be fun for many reasons. Unfortunately, it does not function according to its description. To make matters worse, the accompanying instructions are incorrect in part, and overall incomplete.The drone itself has a rechargeable, while the controller runs off of 3 AAA batteries. It would be nice if both components were rechargeable.The instructions for turning on the drone are incorrect. They indicate that there is a switch on the bottom of the drone that turns it on. There is no switch on the bottom, but there is an opening in the TOP of the drone which functions as a switch. This “switch” took a frustrating 20 minutes to find and identify.The drone and controller have to be paired. This apparently was accomplished, but some of the controller functions don’t work at all. There is a button labeled “flight” that is supposed to activate the drone to fly. This button does nothing. The left joystick will also initiate flight, but the other command buttons have no explanatory instructions . The drone and controller will work together for maybe 30 seconds and then unpair for no apparent reason, even ten feet apart from each other.There are blue and red lights on the drone. At different times these flash, or are solidly lit. What those two functions mean is anybody’s guess-again, no mention in the instructions. The drone beeps when certain controller buttons are pressed. The beeps are not explained in the instructions.I expected this to be simple and easy to operate.It is not simple at all and it operates independently of the controller, and even then, only sometimes.A perfect piece of junk.

Great potential, missed.
The good:The pre-programmed stunts that this can do are pretty neat! I’ve not seen that before. It was pretty fun to do the stunts at the tap of a button.Charging time wasn’t terribly long, though I didn’t actually time it.The bad:No interchangeable battery. Once the battery is drained you have to plug in the drone itself to charge. Fun, delayed.Drift. This thing is constantly drifting one way or another. It does have ‘trim’ adjustments to correct for this but I didn’t find them to actually correct the issue.SLOW horizontal flight. It does have the fast mode, but the regular mode is unbearably slow. So slow that I couldn’t even fly it 30 feet back to myself. It was moving forward at like 1 foot per minute. Then the battery died and it fell in my neighbors yard.For the current $40 I’d spend my money elsewhere.