Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Yuneec Typhoon H vs DJI Phantom 4 – Full Comparison”.
Hey what’s up folks how’s it going. This is waj hope you guys are all doing well and in this article we’re going to be doing an ultimate drone comparison between the dji phantom 4 and the all-new unique typhoon. H. Now the typhoon h presents many of the same capabilities as what’s being offered by the phantom 4, but there’s some key differences that you guys should know before going forward and purchasing one of these drones for your aerial photography needs now, obviously, from the surface level. Both are 4k uh.
They both have a smart capabilities, obstacle avoidance, but again we’re going to be specifically taking a look at the advantages and disadvantage that each drone presents and ultimately, hopefully, we can determine which one has the best overall feature set and which one is going to be best Suited for your needs, so without any further ado, let’s get right into it now from a design perspective. The phantom 4 is certainly a lot more compact and portable than the six rotor design typhoon h and even though we can actually collapse all six rotors down to a more compact form factor. It’S still going to be a little bit larger than the phantom 4. Even in this, more compact form, additionally, the st16 all-in-one controller that comes with the typhoon h certainly is a lot larger and kind of cumbersome to carry around compared to the controller we find on the phantom 4..
As you can see in pretty much all scenarios, the phantom 4 is definitely the more portable solution, and on top of that, you also get a nice, a styrofoam carrying case with each phantom 4 versus you’re going to have to add the cost of an extra carrying Case when transporting the typhoon h now when it comes to build quality and durability, both are respectable. Certainly, the p4 has impeccable build quality with its a very high quality, durable polycarbonate, external shell, as well as a magnesium internal unibody construction. The typhoon h overall, is definitely built very nicely – has excellent build materials. You can see that there’s carbon fiber rods on the landing gear and on the prop arms themselves, which is definitely going to make things as light and as durable as possible.
But in terms of overall mass with the camera and gimbal setup, the typhoon h weighs just under 2 kilograms versus the phantom 4 is just under 1400 grams, which is actually a pretty big weight difference when it comes to drones because keep in mind when you’re up In the air, weight becomes a paramount issue that impacts a directly flight dynamics as well as battery life and speaking of battery life. Let’S actually dive right into the difference between these two when it comes to that factor now, when it comes to the actual battery unit themselves, you can see on the phantom 4. We have a smart battery that gives us some nice indicators of how much juice is left inside, which is definitely very very handy both when it comes to charging, and it is also very visible when the drone is up in the air, and you can turn the Drone around to see how much juice is left based on those indicators which is updating actively in real time.
Although the physical parameters on the typhoon h battery is very similar when it comes to capacity and overall voltage, unfortunately, you can see that there are no physical power indicators on the battery itself. Therefore, you’re gon na have to turn on the drone and the controller and launch the application to find out how much juice is left inside now when it comes to charge times uh based on five uh charging sessions from a 15 to a hundred percent charge, the Phantom four, on average, took about one hour two minutes versus uh. The same process took about one hour, 48 minutes on the typhoon h. Additionally, if you want to charge the controller charging, the p4 controller takes around four hours versus the larger battery. On the st16 controller takes about eight hours to fully charge now when it comes to the actual flight time itself, based on just a static cover at just around 10 feet off the ground.
The phantom 4 lasted just around a 27 minutes 55 seconds before it went into emergency landing mode versus the typhoon. H, in the same scenario, lasted about 23 minutes 45 seconds now, of course, when it comes to more realistic, dynamic flight time based on five different flight sessions on average, the phantom 4 lasted about 25 minutes 12 seconds versus the typhoon. H lasted about 19 and a half minutes now move forward. Let’S talk about some of these smart uh safety features on both platforms. The really cool thing about the typhoon h is that, for whatever reason one of the motors go out, it can actually operate on five rotors. Only so that’s definitely pretty awesome and cool that it has that ability to do so, especially if you get into a nasty accident. On top of that, both of these drones, both something called obstacle avoidance now, there’s a pretty big difference between the two systems. On the typhoon h side, we have an ultrasonic wave system which can work around at 10 meters.
In most scenarios, it’s basically using sound waves. So it definitely has a little bit of delay and is not as responsive, sensitive and accurate as the computer vision optical system. We have on the phantom 4, which is far superior. It has a greater sensitivity of around 0.7 meters, all the way up to 15 meters based on machine learning, algorithms, the phantom 4 obstacle avoidance system can actually identify individual features of the environment, and it can actually tell the difference between a branch or a post as Well as find alternative routes, especially when you use the tap to go feature which is certainly more advanced and at a next generation level of technology, compared to the more rudimentary obstacle avoidance system, we have on the typhoon h, which does work, but is a little bit More restrictive to fly, especially in environments with a lot of hazards close by in most scenarios, it’ll just hover there and not find any alternative routes because it doesn’t want to hit anything, but nonetheless, it’s definitely a good feature for beginners.
But the sonar based system over here is just not as advanced as the optical computer vision system. We have on the phantom 4. now flying both drones is relatively easy.
The phantom 4 is a definitely a very easy drone to fly. It’S probably one of the easiest things to get up in the air, and even if you have never flown anything before in your life, you can pick up the controller and in just a couple of moments, feel fairly confident about your capabilities as a drone operator. Now the typhoon h feels like it’s designed more for professionals and enthusiasts. You can see by the number of controls we have on the very intimidating, looking controller, that there’s definitely a lot of different capabilities over here and we’ll talk about some of those specific capabilities later on, but just in terms of ease of use, it is a fairly Easy to fly, especially at higher altitudes, but once you get down to lower altitudes and indoor flight, it becomes a very tricky to fly, because there is no ground sensing system that will eliminate many of the hover deviations like we have on the vision positioning system. On the phantom 4, which is rock steady, basically, the drone does not move when you let go of the sticks, there is no drift and even in a heavy gust of wind, the drone does an excellent job of remaining steady in one position, regardless of whether you’re Outside indoor or at different altitudes now you can see that the radio controllers on both platforms are very different in terms of design.
We have a much more simpler solution on the phantom 4, which just utilizes your own, smartphone or tablet to monitor and to control. Most of the features of the drone itself, and then you have the physical basic controls which are nicely laid out there. On the other hand, the sd16 controller for the typhoon h is actually a full on android tablet, directly integrated to the physical controller itself. So you have a touch screen controls and you can even browse the web on the android platform, which is kind of cool the app that runs.
The drone itself is actually pretty basic compared to the dji go app. We have on the phantom 4 side, which has hundreds of different features and capabilities, such as the map to find out where the drone is and to locate no-fly zones and waypoint missions. You also have the ability to catch all of your recordings, uh directly onto the smartphone itself, which is definitely pretty cool, especially if you lose the drone, for whatever reason, it’s kind of a backup to all the aerial footage that you’re capturing. You also have the ability to share and live stream.
Your drone footage, which is definitely pretty cool and, unfortunately, is not offered currently on the app that runs the unique platform. Furthermore, upgrading the firmware for all your hardware is a lot more simpler with the dji go app versus on the unique side you’re going to have to download it and put it on an sd card and manually install it yourself, because currently, the wi-fi system doesn’t connect To your internet, using the application itself, because it’s using the wi-fi to communicate with the camera now one major complaint i have with the typhoon h is the amount of time that it takes for the controller to boot up into the operating system and to finally get The image that’s coming out of the drone itself: uh takes almost a minute and a half which is definitely a decent amount of time and, if you’re, on a time crunch that could be a major annoyance, uh versus it only takes about 20 to 30 seconds. To get up and going on the phantom 4 side now beyond those factors, the really nice thing about both drones is they both provide a nice clear, high definition, 720p feed with minimum latency, which makes a capturing area of photography a very, very easy and pleasurable now, In terms of the maximum unobstructed communication range you’re, looking about five kilometers or about three miles on the phantom versus the typhoon, that can go up to one mile or 1.6 kilometers. Now, obviously, the big standoff feature on the typhoon, h and one that makes it uh. So compelling is that big party trick of the landing gear retracting all the way up, giving the camera the full glorious option to rotate all the way to 360 degrees, to capture aerial photography in pretty much any vantage point, which is a huge factor and a feature. That’S not really available in many of the products in this price range.
For example, if you want the same feature on the dji side, you’re gon na have to get the inspire 1, which retails for almost double the cost as the typhoon h. On top of that, you also have the option for a dual operator. So if you get another sd16 controller, you can actually pair both controllers to one drone, and you can have one operator controlling the camera and another pilot controlling the drone.
Now that being said, there is a little bit of a caveat to the actual video and camera quality that you get out of the unique compared to what we have on the phantom side. Now, if you take a look at the raw specifications, i both have 12 megapixel sensors that can do 4k, video at 30 fps as well as 120 frames per second at 1080p, which is definitely very impressive. There’S a little bit difference in terms of bitrate.
The phantom 4 generally uh renders out your video and around 60 megabits per second versus the unique uh is around 50 megabits per second, so a little bit higher bit rate on the phantom 4 side, and there is a certainly a difference in terms of the lens That each camera employs on the phantom 4. We have a 20 millimeter lens that offers around 94 degrees field of view, which is a little bit more standard, looking not quite as wide as the 14 millimeter lens found on the cj-03 plus camera on the unique side which gives you a field of view. Around 115 degrees kind of like a gopro, but not quite as wide, but with the wider angle lens the plus side.
Is you definitely get more things in frame? The downside is the distortion on the lens. Uh definitely takes away from the image quality where you get that kind of warped gopro lens distortion. Look that everyone’s kind of used to with action related footage versus on the phantom 4 things look a little bit more cinematic, because everything is in line.
There’S less issues with flaring and chromatic aberration and additionally, when it comes to the side-by-side video comparison, taking a look at the 4k footage in most scenarios uh, i think the unique looks are pretty decent, but when you start comparing it critically to the p4s camera, i Would generally say that the image quality coming out of the p4 looks sharper. I i you have the sense that there’s more resolution at play define details i’ll pop out more and obviously we have the raw capability to shoot at a flat picture style on both platforms. But generally color grading is a lot easier on the phantom side and, additionally, i think the unique camera has a little bit more aliasing and over sharpening artifacts when use their presets.
And if you shoot at a more a flat picture profile, you can certainly improve uh. Some of the color parameters, but generally i do like the overall look coming straight through the phantom camera compared to the camera that we have on the typhoon. Now we also have a dedicated 4k camera comparison.
Video up on the channel check out the link in the description down below or click the screen right now to go to that full 4k video to judge the quality for yourself now. The last thing that we’re going to talk about is just uh quickly go over. Some of the smart capabilities of both platforms both have similar presets for the different type of aerial shots that you can configure, whether that’s setting up a different way points: cable, cam, as well as orbiting around a specific object or person. There is a difference in terms of some of the capabilities we have on the phantom 4 side.
We have live tracking capabilities on any moving object versus you. Do have the follow mode on the typhoon h, but it’s a gps bound, so either it can track the st16 controller or the more compact uh wizard wand, which is certainly more pocketable, and you can control some of the basic uh flight dynamics of the drone itself. Directly through this miniature controller, but really on that guys, that’s really it. At the end of the day, the phantom 4 is a more complete cohesive product.
I think it’s certainly a lot easier to fly and definitely a more mature platform. A dji has been uh. The industry leader in the whole aerial photography space and it really shows, with the phantom 4 there’s pretty much, not a lot of drones that you can compare to. But if there’s going to be a competitor, the typhoon h definitely presents some cool innovative features that hopefully they’ll improve upon to make a better product in the next generation.
I love the 360 video capabilities, but most people who are going to be using that uh probably are going to have dual operators. But if you’re going to be that serious with it, the camera quality just isn’t as good as what’s being offered with some of the phantom cameras and indeed the inspire one. And, of course, you can go down the route and build your own quadcopter with a proper, dedicated 4k camera if you’re gon na get the best possible aerial photography, quality, but really on that guys.
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