HoverAir X1 review: More fun than you can shake a selfie stick at

Two-minute review

It’s always exciting to try something different, and with Zero Zero Robotics’ HoverAir X1, you get an easy-to-use drone that many people aptly describe as a flying selfie stick. Selfie sticks have themselves become a source of ridicule in the photography world, but don’t let that description of the X1 put you off, because it’s incredibly simple to get-going, safe and, best of all, it’s a whole lot of fun. What’s more, it performs incredibly well when it comes to tracking subjects autonomously.

Most drones follow a similar trajectory in terms of features, functionality and use cases, so it’s refreshing to see a drone that breaks from the norm to beat a distinctive path in an increasingly crowded market. So much so, that I’d confidently recommend the HoverAir X1 as being one of the best beginner drones available. It may be far from being one of the best drones in terms of manual flight capabilities, which we’ll cover later, but for capturing tracking shots of static and moving subjects using a variety of intelligent flight paths, it’s an astonishingly able performer.